Jackson Pollock of Lee Krasner. The movie was the project of Ed Harris, who portrayed Pollock. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Harris himself painted the works seen in the film. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation did not authorize or collaborate with any production. In September 2009, the art historian Henry Adams claimed in "Smithsonian" magazine that Pollock had written his name in his famous painting "Mural" (1943). The painting is now insured for $140 million. In 2011, the Republican Iowa State Representative Scott Raecker introduced a bill to force the sale of the artwork, held by the University of
Alasdair Pollock Alasdair Pollock Alasdair William Pollock (born 24 October 1993) is an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Cambridge MCCU. A right-arm medium-pacer, Pollock scored 44 not out on his first-class debut, against Essex County Cricket Club, at number 9 in the order, out of a total of just 99. Pollock played 7 further first-class matches between 2013-2015. In his second match against Essex County Cricket Club in 2014, Pollock dismissed the then England Test Cricket captain Alastair Cook in both innings. Pollock studied at Shrewsbury School, then afterwards at Robinson College, Cambridge where he obtained a BA in geography.