Walken, Christopher –
(Chris Walken, Ronnie Walken, Christopher Wlaken)
PERSONAL
Original name, Ronald Walken; born March 31, , in Astoria, Queens, New York, NY; son of Paul (a baker) and Rosalie (a baker) Walken; brother of Glenn Walken (an actor); married Georgianne Thon (a casting director, dancer, and production assistant), Education: Attended Hofstra University; trained at American National Theatre and Academy, at Actors Studio, New York City, and with Wynn Handman, New York City; studied dance. Avocational Interests: Cooking, painting, cats.
Addresses:Agent—International Creative Management, Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA Publicist—I/D Public Relations, Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
Career: Actor and dancer. Worked as a child actor and catalogue model; as a teenager, worked as an assistant to a circus lion tamer. Held various jobs.
Member: Screen Actors Guild, Actors' Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Awards, Honors: Clarence Derwent Award, American Theatre Wing, , for The Lion in Winter; Theatre World Award, most promising personality, , for The Rose Tattoo; Drama Desk Award, outstanding per
Christopher Walken - Biography
Who is Christopher Walken?
"I don't need to be made to look evil, I can do that on my own," says actor Christopher Walken. During nearly five decades in show business, the actor has certainly delivered more than his fair share of compelling turns as evil characters and tragic victims haunted by unnameable terrors.
One such was his brilliant depiction of a war-ravaged Vietnam veteran obsessed with playing Russian Roulette in Michael Cimino's film The Deer Hunter which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award.
Prior to that he portrayed Diane Keaton's psychotic brother in the hilarious Woody Allen movie Annie Hall in , and went on to essay the campy nemesis to Roger Moore's James Bond in the outing, A View To A Kill.
His Career
Despite the malevolent parts that have made him famous, however, Christopher started out at the other end of the acting spectrum as a child actor/dancer appearing in live musicals in America's so-called golden age of television in the Fifties.
Christopher was born Ronald Walken in Astoria, New York, on March 31, , the second child of Paul and Rosalie. He began his car
Christopher Walken
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Who Is Christopher Walken?
Christopher Walken began working in the theater in his late teens, and by the early s, he had begun working in film. His breakthrough part came with Woody Allen's Annie Hall (), and he went on to win an Academy Award for his role in 's The Deer Hunter, cultivating a full body of work in the '80s. In , he gained his first Emmy Award nomination for his work on Sarah, Plain and Tall. Walken has taken on a variety of projects that include everything from the Steven Spielberg drama Catch Me If You Can (for which he earned another Oscar nomination) to the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice."
Early Life
Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, , in Queens, New York. A performer since the age of 3, Walken started out as a dancer, taking lessons as a child. "It was very typical for people — and I mean working-class people — to send their kids to dancing school. You'd learn ballet, tap, acrobatics, usually, you'd even learn to sing a song," he later explained to Interview magazine.
The son of a baker, Walken would often leave his neighborhood in Queens and head to Manhattan with his bro
Strange Things Everyone Ignores About Christopher Walken
BySarah Crocker
Sure, Christopher Walken is weird. At least, the persona that he's built up over decades of acting has a reputation for being offbeat, eerie, and sometimes utterly menacing. By now, it's become more or less his thing, though it's worth remembering that Walken has also garnered acclaim for serious roles, including his Oscar-winning turn as a traumatized Vietnam War vet in 's "The Deer Hunter."
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But what of the real-life Walken? Surely he's quite different from, say, his eerie psychic character of Johnny Smith in "The Dead Zone" or the complicated, comedic evil of Hans in "Seven Psychopaths." As it turns out, Walken the man is pretty standard, as far as day-to-day human life goes. He enjoys normie things like cooking (his true hidden talent) and has told reporters that he'd really prefer to break out of the weirdo typecasting more often (though in the past he's been game for many a role because, like the rest of us, he says that he's got bills to pay). Part of Walken's often untold truth is that he's also an advocate both for animals and gun control, putting
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