THE BOURNE LEGACY

EDWARD NORTON (Ret. Col. Eric Byer, USAF) has starred in the films Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt, American History X, Rounders, Fight Club, Keeping the Faith, The Score, Death to Smoochy, Frida, Red Dragon, 25th Hour, The Italian Job, Down in the Valley, Kingdom of Heaven, The Illusionist, The Painted Veil, The Incredible Hulk, Pride and Glory, Leaves of Grass, Stone and Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom.

He has been nominated for two Academy Awards®, for Primal Fear and American History X, and won a Golden Globe along with numerous other awards for his performances. He produced and directed Keeping the Faith and also produced Down in the Valley (a Cannes Film Festival selection), The Painted Veil, Leaves of Grass and the documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which was nominated for three Emmy Awards.

Norton also founded and runs Class 5 Films in partnership with writer Stuart Blumberg and producer Bill Migliore. Class 5's first two features, Down in the Valley and The Painted Veil, were released in 2006. The company's documentary division produces nature, science and documentary films independently.

Class 5's documentary productions include: The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition, a film made by Jim Norton for Versus, about a historic white-water adventure that took place in China in 2003, and Dirty Work, a film by David Sampliner and Tim Nackashi that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel. Class 5 also collaborated with the Sea Studios Foundation on their highly acclaimed, multimillion-dollar series about earth system sciences for National Geographic, Strange Days on Planet Earth, hosted and narrated by Norton. The second installment in the series premiered on PBS in April 2008.

Class 5 recently announced a partnership with Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and National Geographic to produce an epic 10-part series for HBO based on Stephen Ambrose's acclaimed book "Undaunted Courage” about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Norton and Pitt will executive produce the series.

Norton is also a committed social and environmental activist.

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