Editing Ed Harris (section)

==Early life==
Harris was born at [[Englewood Hospital and Medical Center|Englewood Hospital]] in [[Englewood, New Jersey]], and grew up in the suburb of [[Tenafly, New Jersey]],<ref name="bravo">{{cite episode |title=Ed Harris |episode-link=Inside the Actors Studio |series=Inside the Actors Studio |series-link=Inside the Actors Studio |network=[[Bravo (US TV channel)|Bravo]]}}</ref> the son of Margaret (''née'' Sholl), a [[travel agent]], and Robert L. "Bob" Harris (1922–2014), who sang with the [[Fred Waring]] chorus and worked at the bookstore of the [[Art Institute of Chicago]].<ref name="Bob Harris">{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-l-harris-father-actor-680639 |title=Bob L. Harris, Father of Actor Ed Harris, Dies at 91 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |first=Mike |last=Barnes |date=February 16, 2014}}</ref> Ed has an older brother, Robert and a younger brother, Paul.<ref name="Bob Harris"/> Ed grew up in a middle-class [[Presbyterian]] family.<ref name="ref1s">{{cite news |last=Stein |first=Ruthe |title=Ed Harris Has the Righteous Stuff, Too: Actor plays a particularly convincing priest in 'The Third Miracle' |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=January 9, 2000 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/09/PK101712.DTL |access-date=December 10, 2007}}</ref><ref name="ref2">{{cite news |last=Pearlman |first=Cindy |title=Love the sinner: Harris repents for 'money' roles |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=February 6, 2000 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB424609562EF70&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |access-date=December 10, 2007}}</ref> His parents were from Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/99977199.html?dids=99977199:99977199&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+16%2C+1986&author=BY+JOSEPH+C.+KOENENN&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Ed+Harris%3A+Inhabiting+his+characters&pqatl=google |first=Joseph C. |last=Koenenn |title=Ed Harris: Inhabiting his characters |date=March 16, 1986 |work=Newsday |access-date=July 6, 2017 |archive-date=November 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105072712/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/99977199.html?dids=99977199:99977199&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+16%2C+1986&author=BY+JOSEPH+C.+KOENENN&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Ed+Harris%3A+Inhabiting+his+characters&pqatl=google |url-status=dead}}</ref> He graduated from [[Tenafly High School]] in 1969, where he had played on the football team and served as the team's captain in his senior year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rohan |first=Virginia |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-ed-harris/138968255/|title=North Jersey-bred and talented too |work=[[The Record (Bergen County)|The Record]] |date=June 18, 2007 |access-date=January 17, 2024 |quote=Ed Harris: Class of 1969, Tenafly High School.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Stein |first=Ruthe |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/25/MN92739.DTL&type=movies |title=They're Ready For Their Close-Ups: Camped out at Oscars, the starstruck wait to sneak a peek |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=March 25, 2001 |access-date=May 31, 2007 |quote=She's hoping to score a seat near the front and catch the eye of Oscar nominee Ed Harris, who went to Tenafly High School in New Jersey with her mother.}}</ref>

A star athlete in high school,<ref name="bravo"/> Ed Harris played [[Columbia Lions football|varsity football]] at [[Columbia University]] and was a teammate of future [[United States Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]].<ref name=nymag>{{cite news |url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/21970/ |title=Man, Oh, Man Ed Harris is not a control freak. Got that? |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |last=Kachka |first=Boris |date=October 9, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=1971 Columbia Football: The Cardiac Kids |url=https://gocolumbialions.com/news/2021/9/23/1971-columbia-football-the-cardiac-kids.aspx |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=Columbia University Athletics}}</ref> At Columbia, where he said he succumbed to the "[[Morningside Heights, Manhattan|Morningside Heights]] blues" after two years, he was a resident in [[Carman Hall]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Denby |first=David|date=September 19, 1983 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncoBAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22carman+hall%22+columbia&pg=PA48 |title=Ed Harris |magazine=New York Magazine |page=48}}</ref> When his family moved to New Mexico two years later, Harris followed, having discovered his interest in acting in various theater plays. He enrolled at the [[University of Oklahoma]] to study drama.<ref name="bravo"/> After several successful roles in local theaters (such as the Jewel Box Theater<ref>{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Ryan |title=Method Man: Ed Harris |url=https://therake.com/stories/icons/method-man-ed-harris/ |website=The Rake |access-date=January 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=NPR Staff |title=The Unforgettable Performance Ed Harris Doesn't Remember |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/03/08/287296921/the-unforgettable-performance-ed-harris-doesnt-remember |access-date=January 18, 2019 |work=NPR |date=March 8, 2014}}</ref> in [[Oklahoma City]]), he moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at the [[California Institute of the Arts]], where he spent two years and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] in 1975.<ref name="bravo"/>