Ed Harris
Born November 28, 1950 (Age: 75)
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Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations. Harris has appeared in numerous leading and supporting roles, including in Creepshow (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), Under Fire (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Radio (2003), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Mother! (2017), The Lost Daughter (2021), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). In addition to directing Pollock, Harris directed the Western film Appaloosa (2008). In television, Harris is notable for his roles as Miles Roby in the miniseries Empire Falls (2005) and as United States Senator John McCain in the television movie Game Change (2012); the latter earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He starred as the Man in Black in the HBO science fiction-Western series Westworld (2016–2022), for which he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations.
Harris has appeared in numerous leading and supporting roles, including in Creepshow (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), Under Fire (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Radio (2003), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Mother! (2017), The Lost Daughter (2021), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). In addition to directing Pollock, Harris directed the Western film Appaloosa (2008).
In television, Harris is notable for his roles as Miles Roby in the miniseries Empire Falls (2005) and as United States Senator John McCain in the television movie Game Change (2012); the latter earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He starred as the Man in Black in the HBO science fiction-Western series Westworld (2016–2022), for which he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Filmography
How to Make a Killing
2026
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as Whitelaw Redfellow
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Age: 75
Riff Raff
2025
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as Vince
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Age: 74
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
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as Dale
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Age: 73
Love Lies Bleeding
2024
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as Lou Sr.
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Age: 73
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
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as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
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Age: 71
The Lost Daughter
2021
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as Lyle
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Age: 71
Resistance
2020
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as George S. Patton
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Age: 69
The Last Full Measure
2020
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as Ray Mott
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Age: 69
Geostorm
2017
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as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
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Age: 66
mother!
2017
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as Man
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Age: 66
Rules Don't Apply
2016
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as Mr. Bransford
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Age: 65
In Dubious Battle
2016
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as Joy
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Age: 65
The Adderall Diaries
2016
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as Neil Elliott
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Age: 65
Run All Night
2015
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as Shawn Maguire
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Age: 64
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
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as Blade Ranger (voice)
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Age: 63
The Face of Love
2013
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as Garret Mathis / Tom Young
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Age: 62
Gravity
2013
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as Mission Control (voice)
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Age: 62
Snowpiercer
2013
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as Wilford
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Age: 62
Pain & Gain
2013
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as Ed DuBois
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Age: 62
Phantom
2013
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as Demi
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Age: 62
Man on a Ledge
2012
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as David Englander
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Age: 61
Salvation Boulevard
2011
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as Dr. Paul Blaylock
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Age: 60
The Way Back
2010
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as Mr. Smith
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Age: 59
Virginia
2010
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as Sheriff Dick Tipton
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Age: 59
Appaloosa
2008
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as Virgil Cole
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Age: 57
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
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as Mitch Wilkinson
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Age: 57
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
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as Self
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Age: 56
Gone Baby Gone
2007
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as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
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Age: 56
Cleaner
2007
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as Eddie Lorenzo
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Age: 56
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
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as Self - Narrator
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Age: 56
Copying Beethoven
2006
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as Ludwig van Beethoven
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Age: 55
The Oklahoma Heisman
2006
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as Narrator
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Age: 55
Winter Passing
2006
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as Don Holden
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Age: 55
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 55
A History of Violence
2005
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as Carl Fogarty
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Age: 54
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
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as Self
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Age: 54
The Human Stain
2003
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as Lester Farley
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Age: 52
Radio
2003
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as Coach Jones
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Age: 52
Masked and Anonymous
2003
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as Oscar Vogel
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Age: 52
The Hours
2002
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as Richard Brown
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Age: 52
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
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as Colonel Berman
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Age: 51
Just a Dream
2002
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as Henry Sturbuck (voice)
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Age: 51
A Beautiful Mind
2001
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as William Parcher
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Age: 51
Enemy at the Gates
2001
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as Major König
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Age: 50
Pollock
2000
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as Jackson Pollock
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Age: 49
Waking the Dead
2000
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as Jerry Charmichael
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Age: 49
Stepmom
1998
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as Luke Harrison
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Age: 48
Junket Whore
1998
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as Self
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Age: 47
The Truman Show
1998
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as Christof
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Age: 47
No Image
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
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as Christof
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Age: 47
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
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as Self
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Age: 46
Absolute Power
1997
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as Seth Frank
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Age: 46
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
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as Sam Peckinpah (Voice)
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Age: 45
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
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as Self
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Age: 45
The Rock
1996
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as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
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Age: 45
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
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as Jim Lassiter
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Age: 45
Eye for an Eye
1996
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as Mack McCann
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Age: 45
Nixon
1995
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as E. Howard Hunt
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Age: 45
Apollo 13
1995
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as Gene Kranz
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Age: 44
Just Cause
1995
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as Blair Sullivan
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Age: 44
Milk Money
1994
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as Tom Wheeler
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Age: 43
China Moon
1994
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as Kyle Bodine
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Age: 43
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
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as Self
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Age: 42
Needful Things
1993
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as Sheriff Alan Pangborn
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Age: 42
The Firm
1993
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as Wayne Tarrance
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Age: 42
Running Mates
1992
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as Hugh Hathaway
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Age: 41
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
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as Dave Moss
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Age: 41
Paris Trout
1991
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as Harry Seagraves
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Age: 40
State of Grace
1990
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as Frankie
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Age: 39
Jacknife
1989
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as David 'High School' Flannigan
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Age: 38
The Abyss
1989
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as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
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Age: 38
To Kill a Priest
1988
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as Stefan
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Age: 37
Walker
1987
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as William Walker
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Age: 37
The Last Innocent Man
1987
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as Harry Nash
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Age: 36
Sweet Dreams
1985
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as Charlie Dick
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Age: 34
Code Name: Emerald
1985
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as Gus Lang
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Age: 34
Alamo Bay
1985
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as Shang
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Age: 34
Places in the Heart
1984
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as Wayne Lomax
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Age: 33
The Right Stuff
1983
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as John Glenn
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Age: 32
Creepshow
1982
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as Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")
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Age: 31
No Image
Dream on!
1981
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as
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Age: 30
Knightriders
1981
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as Billy
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Age: 30
Borderline
1980
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as Hotchkiss
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Age: 30
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
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as Chuck Polcheck
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Age: 29
Coma
1978
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as Pathology Resident
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Age: 27