Over the course of his career, Harrison Ford has become one of the most popularly acclaimed actors of our time. His body of work includes 35 feature films, 10 of which have exceeded $100 million each at the box office. Through his starring roles in such cinematic blockbusters as the first three Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, The Fugitive, Air Force One and Patriot Games, he has come to embody the quintessential American hero for moviegoers around the world.

An Oscar® and Golden Globe nominee for his performance in the suspense thriller Witness (1985), Ford also earned Golden Globe nominations for his starring roles in Sabrina (1995), The Fugitive (1993) and The Mosquito Coast (1986). The National Association of Theatre Owners named him Star of the Century in 1994. People picked Ford as "The Sexiest Man Alive" in 1998. That same year, he won the People's Choice Award as Favorite All Time Movie Star and, again, in 2000 when he was named Favorite Motion Picture Actor. Also in 2000, he received the prestigious Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

In 2002, the Golden Globes honored him with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Born in Chicago, Ford attended Ripon College in Wisconsin before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He began as a contract player with Columbia Pictures, making his film debut in the crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966). After a small role in Getting Straight (1970), he resolved not to let his career choices be dictated by financial concerns, so he turned to carpentry while he waited for the right role.

In 1973, after a three-year hiatus from the screen, George Lucas cast him in American Graffiti. The next year, he landed a prominent supporting part in Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, which was followed by an important role in Stanley Kramer's television production of "Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley."

Ford returned to features in 1977 when Lucas cast him as the cocky rebel starship pilot Han Solo in Star Wars. The film shattered all box office records and made Ford a household name. He went on to star in Force 10 From Navarone (1978), Hanover Street (1978) and The Frisco Kid (1979), and had cameo roles in Apocalypse Now (1979) and More American Graffiti (1979) before being cast by Steven Spielberg as intrepid adventurer Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The movie became another one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

Between the Star Wars sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) and the Raiders of the Lost Ark sequels Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Ford starred in a number of other memorable films. In Blade Runner (1982), he delivered a gritty performance as a cop in the nihilistic future of L.A. He earned critical acclaim and an Oscar® nomination for his role in Witness (1985) as a cop on the lam, hiding out in Amish country. Ford followed that with a daring portrayal of an eccentric idealistic inventor in The Mosquito Coast (1986). He went on to play a Hitchcockian-style protagonist in Frantic (1988) before showing his flair for romantic comedy in Working Girl (1988).

He played a lawyer accused of murder in Presumed Innocent (1990), an arrogant yuppie transformed by a mugger's bullet in Regarding Henry (1991), the heroic ex-CIA agent Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), a doctor wrongly convicted of murdering his wife in The Fugitive (1993), a deeply committed New York City cop in The Devil's Own (1997) and President James Marshall in Air Force One (1997). He also starred in the remake of Sabrina (1995) in the role originated by Humphrey Bogart.

Ford's most recent credits include the romantic action comedy Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), the romantic drama Random Hearts (1999) and the thriller What Lies Beneath (2000). Most recently he starred in K-19: The Widowmaker and Hollywood Homicide.

Strongly committed to environmental concerns, Ford is actively involved in a number of conservation groups. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming where he donated 389 acres of his property for a conservation easement to the Jackson Hole Land Trust.