Christopher Walken

Movie Actor

Christopher Walken was born in Astoria, New York, United States on March 31st, 1943 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 80, Christopher Walken biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Ronald Walken, Chris, Ronnie
Date of Birth
March 31, 1943
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Astoria, New York, United States
Age
80 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Networth
$30 Million
Profession
Character Actor, Dancer, Film Actor, Film Director, Model, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Christopher Walken Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 80 years old, Christopher Walken has this physical status:

Height
183cm
Weight
78kg
Hair Color
Light Brown
Eye Color
One eye is ‘Blue’ and the other is ‘Hazel’
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Christopher Walken Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Christianity
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Professional Children’s School, Hofstra University
Christopher Walken Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Georgianne Thon
Children
Not Available
Dating / Affair
Liza Minnelli (1963-1964), Natalie Wood (1981), Georgianne Thon (1968-Present)
Parents
Paul Wälken, Rosalie Wälken
Siblings
Kenneth Wälken (Brother), Glenn Wälken (Brother)
Other Family
Joseph Egen (Maternal Grandfather), Matthew Egen (Maternal Great Grandfather), Alice Chambers (Maternal Great Grandmother), Mary/Molly Russell (Maternal Grandmother), William Charles Russell (Maternal Great Grandfather), Mary MacFarlane Burgess (Maternal Great Grandmother)
Christopher Walken Life

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken, March 31, 1943) is an American actor, singer, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and dancer, who has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs, including Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Vendetta (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Joe Dirt (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), the first three Prophecy films, The Jungle Book (2016), and Irreplaceable You (2018).

He has received a number of awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter.

He was nominated for the same award and won BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Catch Me If You Can.

His films have grossed more than $1 billion in the United States.Walken has also played the lead in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus.

He is a popular guest-host of Saturday Night Live, hosting seven times.

His most notable roles on the show include record producer Bruce Dickinson in the "More Cowbell" sketch; the disgraced Confederate officer Colonel Angus; and multiple appearances in the Continental sketch.

He has also appeared in Hallmark Hall of Fame's Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Walken debuted as a film director and screenwriter with the 2001 short film Popcorn Shrimp.

He also wrote and played the lead role in the 1995 play Him about his idol Elvis Presley.

Early life

Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943, in Astoria, Queens, New York, the son of Rosalie Russell (May 16, 1907 – March 26, 2010), a Scottish immigrant from Glasgow and Paul Wälken (October 5, 1903 – February 23, 2001), a German immigrant from Gelsenkirchen who owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria. Walken was named after actor Ronald Colman. He was raised Methodist. He and his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child actors on television in the 1950s, influenced by their mother's dreams of stardom. When he was 15, a girlfriend showed him a magazine photo of Elvis Presley and Walken later said, "This guy looked like a Greek god. Then I saw him on television. I loved everything about him." He changed his hairstyle to imitate Presley and has not changed it since. As a teenager, he worked as a lion tamer in a circus. He attended Hofstra University but dropped out after one year, having gotten the role of Clayton Dutch Miller in an off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward alongside Liza Minnelli. Walken initially trained as a dancer at the Washington Dance Studio before moving on to dramatic stage roles and then film.

Personal life

In 1963, Walken met Georgianne Thon during a tour of West Side Story. They married in January 1969. The couple have no children and Walken has stated in interviews that being child-free is one of the reasons he has had such a prolific career. The couple have a cat named Bowtie and their previous cat was named Flapjack.

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Christopher Walken Career

Career

Walken appeared on television as an extra in a number of anthology series and variety shows during the Golden Age of Television as an infant. Walken wanted to become an actor after appearing on The Colgate Comedy Hour with Martin and Lewis. He landed a regular role in the 1953 television show Wonderful John Acton, in which Kevin Acton played Kevin Acton. During this period, Ronnie Walken was credited as Ronnie Walken.

He appeared on television frequently over the next two years (landing a role in the experimental film Me and My Brother) and had a fruitful career in theater. Walken and his brother Glenn appeared on the soap opera The Guiding Light from 1954 to 1956. In an episode of Naked City starring Paul Burke in 1963, he appeared as Chris. In the Broadway premiere of The Lion in 1966, Walken appeared as King Philip of France. In 1968, Lysander appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival in Canada. Walken appeared in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer in 1969.

He changed his first name to Christopher at the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who performed at a nightclub performance in which Walken was a dancer and who believed the name suited him better than Ronnie (a pet version of his given name, Ronald), which he was credited as until then. Instead of Christopher, he prefers to be identified informally as Chris rather than Christopher.

Walken appeared in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky off-Broadway production, opposite Charles Durning and Bonnie Bartlett. Walken received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance later this year.

In Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes, Walken made his debut film with a small role opposite Sean Connery. The Mind Snatchers, 1972, a.k.a. Walken, the Happiness Cage, appeared in his first appearance. He plays a sociopathic American soldier stationed in Germany in this science fiction film, which concerns mind control and normalization.

The film Next Stop, a 1976 film directed by Paul Mazursky, Greenwich Village had Walken, playing fictional poet and ladies' man Robert Fulmer. Walken played Annie Hall's borderline mad brother in Woody Allen's 1977 film (Diane Keaton). Walken was also a minor actor in The Sentinel in 1977. He appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western film released in 1976 that costarred Margot Kidder. Walken was considered by George Lucas as part of Han Solo in Star Wars, alongside Nick Nolte and Burt Reynolds; the role eventually went to Harrison Ford.

Walken appeared in an episode of Kojak as Ben Wiley, a robber.

In Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, Walken received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He plays a young Pennsylvania steelworker who is emotionally devastated by the Vietnam War. Walken was given only bananas, water, and rice for a week to help with his character's gaunt appearance before the third act.

The tense Heaven's Gate, directed by Cimino, was Walken's first film of the 1980s. Walken appeared in The Dogs of War, a 1981 action film starring John Irvin. In Herbert Ross' musical Pennies from Heaven (1981), he enthralled many commentators and filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing striptease. In 1982, he played a socially awkward but gifted theater actor in Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Who Am I This Time?" Susan Sarandon is the opposite of Susan Sarandon. In David Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone, Walken played schoolteacher-turned-psychic Johnny Smith. Walken appeared in Brainstorm with Natalie Wood and (in a minor role) his wife, Georgianne.

In A View to a Kill, Roger Moore's last appearance as Bond, Walken played a James Bond villain Max Zorin in 1985. Walken dyed his hair blond to match Zorin's history as a Nazi experiment.

Brad Whitewood, a rural Pennsylvania crime boss who tries to bring his two sons into his empire, appeared at Close Range (1986); his story was based on criminal Bruce Johnston.

Walken appeared in 1988 as Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, was directed by Mike Nichols and played Federal Agent Kyril Montana in The Milagro Beanfield War. Whitley Strieber appeared in 1989's Communion, an autobiographical film directed by Strieber that referred to unknown, otherworldly entities as "aliens" or simply "visitors." Walken appeared in the film Homeboy, which was written by and starring Mickey Rourke in the titular role. In 1989, he appeared as "Puss" in the Cannon theater company's musical adaptation of Puss in Boots.

Walken plays Robert, a decadent Italian aristocrat with strong sexual preferences and deadly tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice in the comfort of strangers, an art house film directed by Paul Schrader.

Walken's King of New York (1990), directed by Abel Ferrara, portrays Frank White, a ruthless New York City drug dealer who was recently released from jail and set about reclaiming his criminal territory. Walken appeared in Sarah, Plain and Tall as Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer. Walken appeared in Batman Returns as a villain, as millionaire industrialist Max Shreck. Walken appeared in Madonna's controversial coffee table book SEX and her hit song, "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher) in 1992 (directed by David Fincher). In Wayne's World 2, he appeared as Bobby, Cassandra's producer.

Dennis Hopper was the opposite of Walken in his upcoming film role in True Romance, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Critics have lauded his so-called Sicilian scene as the best scene in the film, and the subject of four commentaries on the DVD. As a Vietnam soldier named Captain Koons, Walken plays a supporting role in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. He gives his dead comrade's his precious possession, a gold watch, while describing how he concealed it from the Vietcong by smuggling it in his rectum after the boy's father, whose rectum had previously been revealed, died of dysentery.

Walken appeared in A Business Affair, a rare leading role for him in a romantic comedy, later in 1994. As he performs the tango, Walken manages to once more feature his signature dancing style. He appeared in Things to Do in Denver in 1995, When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy, and the modern vampire film The Addiction, his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John. He appeared in Nick of Time, which also stars Johnny Depp and an art house film directed by David Salle's Search and Destroy. Walken performed in "Him," the first play written by Walken about his idol Elvis in the afterlife performed in the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1995. In a "woozily planned, spectacular new play" in which Elvis' death as a dying act that allowed Elvis to flee to Morocco for a sex change to become "her" in the New York Times' somewhat positive review. "Heyman."

Hickey, a sadistic gangster, appears in the 1996 film Last Man Standing. He appeared in Ripper's video game that year, portraying Detective Vince Magnotta. In an interactive film, Ripper made extensive use of real-time recording scenes and a large cast of celebrities. Walken appeared in the Italian film Celluloide as US Officer Rod Geiger and appeared as Ray in the Abel Ferrara crime drama The Funeral, as US Officer Rod Geiger. Walken appeared in the comedy film Touch and Excess Baggage in 1997 and had a minor role in the film Mouse Hunt. He appeared in the drama/thriller film Suicide Kings, which was also packed with suspense and humour.

Walken played a leading gay New York theater critic in John Turturro's film Illuminata, 1998. In the computer-animated film Antz's year, he played Colonel/General Cutter.

In 1999, he appeared James Houston in Vendetta, an HBO original film based on the 1891 New Orleans lynchings. Walken appeared in Blast from the Past this year, portraying Calvin Webber, a brilliant but eccentric Caltech nuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear war led him to the construction of a huge fallout shelter beneath his suburban home. He appeared in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, in the same year. Michael Rapaport and Nancy Allen appeared in Kiss Toledo Goodbye together.

In the 1990s, Walken appeared in two music videos. In Madonna's 1993 "Bad Child," his first video role was as the Angel of Death. In Skid Row's "Breakin' Down" video, the second appearance was made.

Walken was in 2000, along with Blair Brown, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. Shaun Davey's music was included in the Dead's "play with music," according to Tom Partington, with music coordination and percussion by Shaun Davey. The Dead of James Joyce received a Tony Award for Best Book for a Musical that year.

Walken appeared in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" in 2001. It was directed by Spike Jonze in 2001 and ranked sixth in a list of the top 100 videos of all time compiled from a poll of musicians, producers, and music industry executives compiled by VH1—Won Best Video of All Time in April 2002. Walken dances and flies around the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles' lobby; Walken helped choreograph the performance in this video. Walken was also in 2001, appearing in The David Spade comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric film director in America's Sweethearts. Walken appeared in Lieutenant Macduff in Scotland, PA, in a loose film version of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

In 2002, Walken played Mike in Poolhall Junkies and Sr. in Catch Me If You Can, which is inspired by Frank Abagnale, Jr., a con artist who went around as several identities and forked millions of dollars in checks. His appearance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Walken appeared in the 2003 action comedy film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Scott, in which he portrays a ruthless despot. In 2002's The Country Bears and two 2003 films, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack, he was nominated for a Razzie (Worst Support Actor). Walken appeared in Barry Levinson's Envy, a bizarre guy who aids Ben Stiller's character and plays a father who has left prison to reunite with his father, his son, and a grandson who has never knew before death. In 2004, Walken played Paul Rayburn, where his character says: "A man can be an artist in whatever, food, or whatever." It depends on how good he is at it. The art of Creasy is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

In 2004, Walken appeared in The Stepford Wives as Mike.

In 2005, he played Mark Heiss in Domino and the role of Secretary Cleary in the film Wedding Crashers.

In 2006, he played Morty, a sympathetic engineer who is more than meets the eye, in the comedy/drama Click, as well as with Robin Williams and Lewis Black in Man of the Year. In the 2007 comedy action film Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler, he co-starred in the film adaptation Hairspray, in which he is seen singing and dancing in a romantic duet with John Travolta and portraying the eccentric but cruel crime lord and Ping-Pong fan Feng.

Walken appeared in the film Five Dollars a Day (released in 2008), in which he plays a con man who lives like a king on $5 a day.

On June 25, 2009, the film The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy, and Walken about security guards in an art museum premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Walken appeared in Universal Studios Florida's "Disaster" attraction (formerly "Earthquake and the Magic of Effects) and shortly to be Fast & Furious: Supercharged). In his latest film, Mutha Nature, Walken portrayed Frank Kincaid, the owner of "Disaster Studios" and invited guests to be extras. Walken was shown on a large screen, much like a life-size hologram, and in contact with the live-action star. "Frankenstein never scared me" was a famous quote.

Walken appeared in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in 2010 and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. In the "Audition Day" episode, he had a small voice role in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. In the film based on the life of gangster Danny Greene, Kill the Irishman, he appeared in Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns. Walken reunited with McDonagh in the British-American crime film Seven Psychopaths in 2012 and also appeared as the creator and leader of a string quartet in A Late Quartet.

Walken costarred with Al Pacino and Alan Arkin in the film Stand Up Guys, a tale about elderly criminals out on the town for one last hoorah. He appeared in The Power of Few as well.

Walken was named as a "GQ" Man of the Year" in December 2012. "Gentlemen's Quarterly" is the article. (p. 24) The date is April 2018.

Walken debuted in 2013 as the protagonist of Jack & Jones' campaign "Made From Cool." He appeared in Turks & Caicos in 2014. In the 2014 film Jersey Boys, Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo.

In 2014, Walken appeared as Captain Hook in the NBC series Peter Pan Live!

Walken appeared in the film When I Live My Life Over Again In 2015, Walken appeared in the film For the second time in the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser, a tenacious loser.

In the CGI-live action version of Disney's The Jungle Book directed by Jon Favreau, he played King Louie in 2016. He also produced a cover of Louie's "I Wan't a Be Like You," which he performs in the film as well as on the soundtrack. He appeared in Eddie the Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives in Dexter Fletcher's Dexter Fletcher's Dexter Fletcher's Nine Lives that year. In the critically panned Father Figures, Walken replaced Bill Irwin in the role of Walter Tinkler. In the Netflix film Irreplaceable You, he appeared Myron for the second year.

Walken appeared in the BBC One/Amazon Prime Video comedy The Outlaws in 2021. In 2022, BBC1's second series aired on BBC1 in the second series.

Burt Goodman, the ex-head of the Optics and Design team in Apple's Severance's 2022-1922 film Burt Goodman, had a supporting role. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role. In the 2023 film Dune: Part Two, Walken would play Emperor Shaddam IV.

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