Vanity Fair April 1997
The Sensation
Edward Norton
Actor
Photographed by Herb Ritz in Los Angeles on
January 25, 1997
Roles in three films, all released in 1996:
doe-eyed priest killer in Primal Fear, for which Norton
has received a best-supporting actor
Oscar nomination, Drew Barrymore's blueblood
beau in Woody Allen's
Everyone Says I Love You, and the anti-hustler who
made us wish The People Vs. Larry Flynt had
focused exclusively on the life of Norton's character,
the pornographer's legal counsel.
Upcoming project: the skinhead
coming of age movie American History X,
