Edward Burns
| Edward Burns | |
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Burns at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
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| Born |
Edward Fitzgerald Burns January 29, 1968 Woodside, Queens, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hewlett High School |
| Alma mater |
SUNY Oneonta University at Albany |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Notable work | The Brothers McMullen, She's the One, Sidewalks of New York, Newlyweds, The Fitzgerald Family Christmas |
| Spouse(s) | Christy Turlington (m. 2003) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | Edward Burns |
Edward Fitzgerald Burns (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, film producer, writer, and director best known for appearing in several films including Saving Private Ryan (1998), 15 Minutes (2001), Life or Something Like It (2002), A Sound of Thunder (2005), The Holiday (2006), One Missed Call (2008), 27 Dresses (2008), Man on a Ledge (2012), Friends with Kids (2012), and Alex Cross (2012). Burns directed movies such as The Brothers McMullen (1995), She's the One (1996), Sidewalks of New York (2001), Purple Violets (2007), and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012). He also starred as Bugsy Siegel in the TNT crime drama series Mob City and as Terry Muldoon in TNT's Public Morals.
Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly (née McKenna), a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, a public relations spokesman and police officer. He was raised a Roman Catholic. Burns is the second of three children (with siblings Mary and Brian) in a family of Irish, and a small amount of Swedish, descent. He was raised in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island. He briefly attended Chaminade High School before transferring to Hewlett High School. After high school, Burns attended, from 1987 to 1992, SUNY Oneonta, University at Albany, and Hunter College.
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