Pollock (film) Pollock (film) Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's biography. The film opens "in medias res" to abstract expressionist painter
Daniel Pollock for Best Supporting Actor at the 1992 AFI Awards for the role. On 13 April 1992 Pollock was battling depression, and fearing a prison sentence in an upcoming court case, before he took his own life by walking in front of a train at Newtown railway station, Sydney, prior to the release of "Romper Stomper". Pollock was 23 years old. He was buried next to his late grandfather William "Bill" Pollock in Gol Gol, New South Wales, Australia. "Romper Stomper" film star Russell Crowe wrote a song, called "The Night That Davey Hit the Train", about his death. Daniel Pollock