Gene Hackman is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor that came to fame during the 1970s after his role as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection and continued to appear in Hollywood films playing major roles. He was born in San Bernardino, California and his family moved from one place to another until finally settling in Danville, Illinois.
Hackman’s parents divorced in 1943 and he left home at 16 to join the United States Marine Corps where he served three years as a field radio operator. After finishing his service, he moved to New York, working in several minor jobs before moving to study television production and journalism at the University of Illinois. Hackman decided to become an actor at 26 and joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California where he forged a friendship with another aspiring actor, Dustin Hoffman. Hackman moved to New York City in the 1960s and began performing in several off-Broadway plays.
In 1971, he won the Best Actor Academy Award for his memorable performance as New York City police officer Popeye Doyle in The French Connection. By the end of the 1980s, he was well-respected actor and alternated between leading and supporting roles, earning a Best Actor nomination for Mississippi Burning. In 1992, he played a sadistic sheriff in the western Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood and earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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