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
Dale Pollock State University. Pollock is married to violist and fiddle player Susie O'Keeffe Pollock. His children are Owen Pollock, Leo "Milton" Pollock and Zoe Pollock. An excerpt of Pollock's Master of Science thesis, "The Use of Media in a Political Campaign," was published in 1975 in Daily Variety's 42nd Anniversary Issue. Pollock's entry into journalism was as entertainment editor at the "Santa Cruz Sentinel" in Santa Cruz, CA. Subsequently, he joined the staff of "Daily Variety" in Los Angeles becoming Film Critic and Box Office Analyst, before moving to the "Los Angeles Times" where he became Chief Film Reporter in the