Edward Burns

Actor + Producer + Writer

Male

Born Jan 29, 1968

Age 45

Hometown Woodside, Queens,...

Other Names Edward Fitzgerald...

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Summit Entertainment Premieres Alex Cross

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Oct 16, 2012

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Premiere of Summit Entertainment's 'Alex Cross' at the ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome - Arrivals

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Oct 15, 2012

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Matthew Fox, Tyler Perry and Edward Burns Premiere of Summit Entertainment's 'Alex Cross' at the ...

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Oct 14, 2012

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Edward Burns arrives at Toronto Pearson International Airport for the Toronto International Film ...

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Sep 6, 2012

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Romance

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Christy Turlington
Married 2003 - Present
Heather Graham
Dated 1998 - 2000
Winona Ryder
Fling 1995
Lauren Holly
Dated
Maxine Bahns
Dated

Family

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Edward Burns

Age 45

parents

Edward J. Burns

Father
Molly McKenna

Mother

siblings

Brian Burns
Brother
Mary Burns

Sister

children

Grace Burns

Daughter, Age 9
Finn Burns

Son, Age 7

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5 Huge Movie Roles Garth Brooks Allegedly Turned Down
Business Insider - Apr 17, 2013

Country singer Garth Brooks is being sued by his former partner for compensation she claims she's owed for work over the past 20 years. His former partner, Lisa Sanderson, helped the singer get television roles and work in films. However, you probably don't remember him in too many roles as he just appeared on "Golden Girls" spinoff "Empty Nest" and served as executive producer on two TV movies. However, that nearly wasn't the case. Brooks apparently had the opportunity to be in so...
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"The Older You Get, The Easier It Is To Date Younger Men"
Huffington Post - Feb 13, 2013

Connie Britton got over it a long time ago, the part that got away. But it’s a good story, and she still tells it with feeling: The year was 1995. Edward Burns, who had just directed her (and starred in) “The Brothers McMullen,” reached into his backpack one night over dinner and handed her a script that Cameron Crowe had sent him to read. Burns wasn’t interested himself, wanting to act in his own films instead. But he thought Britton was perfect f...
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Sundance Film Festival: Robert Redford Remembers Meeting Ed Burns
The Huffington Post - Jan 17, 2013

PARK CITY, Utah -- Everybody wants a piece of Robert Redford. Young filmmakers talking him up for advice on the street. The stewardess on an airplane who mentions her son has this idea. The guy with a videotape under his arm who looked so grungy Redford thought he was a panhandler. That last one turned out to be Edward Burns, who talked Redford into taking a look at a little sibling comic drama he had written, directed and starred in. Redford wa...
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Edward Burns Returns To His Roots
Chicago Times - Dec 13, 2012

About halfway through writing the script for "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas" (which opens at the Wilmette Theatre next week), Edward Burns says he found himself at a crossroad. "Do I want to make the big, crazy, funny, holly-jolly Christmas Irish family movie?" he recalled when we spoke last week, "or do I want to go for something a little more grounded in the real world and a little more serious?"
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1968 Birth Born on January 29, 1968.

TWENTIES

1992 24 Years Old After high school, Burns attended SUNY Oneonta and University at Albany, before earning a degree in English from Hunter College in 1992. … Read More

1996 28 Years Old In 1996, Burns wrote, directed and starred in the ensemble drama She's The One with Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz and Amanda Peet, as well as Sidewalks of New York in 2001. … Read More

THIRTIES

2007 39 Years Old 1 More Event

His film Purple Violets premiered exclusively on iTunes on November 20, 2007. … Read More

FORTIES

2009 41 Years Old In March 2009, The Lynch Pin, a series of shorts starring, written and directed by Burns were released via the internet. … Read More

2010 42 Years Old He then wrote "Nice Guy Johnny" and shot it quickly, on the RED One camera, for a reported $25,000 with a small crew. "Nice Guy Johnny" premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010.

2011 43 Years Old To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, Burns wrote a movie, Newlyweds that he also directed and starred in. … Read More

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