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Ed Harris on meeting his wife at 'Places in the Heart' rehearsals

 

Ed Harris is one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood, appearing in over 80 television shows and films over the course of his illustrious career. Now, Ed is back on stage in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Buried Child." Ed plays Dodge, the patriarch of a very dysfunctional family with a couple of closets full of skeletons. He talks to TODAY about the role, and tells the story of how he met his wife, Amy Madigan.

Off Broadway Review: ‘Buried Child’ with Ed Harris, Taissa Farmiga

February 17, 2016

We know “a Sam Shepard actor” when we see one. He’s lean and weather-beaten and never far from a bottle. A mean look in his eye suggests he might be dangerous, or maybe just crazy. There’s a bona fide Sam Shepard actor in director Scott Elliott’s uneven revival of “Buried Child” (a play that won the Pulitzer in 1979) for the New Group. It’s Ed Harris, who is mesmerizing as Dodge — one of those patriarchal figures, central to the work of this playwright, whose past sins are visited on his sons and on the American wasteland where they live.

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