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
Tresa Pollock Mellon University as an Professor. During this time, she was also a Guest Scientist at General Electric . In 2000, Pollock moved to University of Michigan and took up the L.H and F.E. Van Vlack Professorship in Materials Science and Engineering. In 2010, Pollock moved to University of California, Santa Barbara where she presently works as a Distinguished Professor of Materials and the Alcoa Chair. At the University of California at Santa Barbara, Pollock Directs the Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility. Pollock is a pioneer in the use of femtosecond lasers for 3D tomography of materials. Pollock also acts as Chair