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
()
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
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken
Walken started out his career occasionally replacing his brother Glenn as Mike Bauer on the daytime soap opera, "The Guiding Light." While in his mid-teens, Walken made his Broadway debut in Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "J.B.," a contemporary take on the Book of Job set in a modern circus. By the middle of the decade, Walken performed in several musicals, including as a member of the chorus in "Baker Street" (). While few chorus players managed to segue into dramatic roles, Walken was an exception when he landed the role of King Philips in the historical drama, "The Lion in Winter," a role from which he was almost fired for being too nervous to perform.
After winning a Drama Desk Award for his performance in "Lemon Sky," Walken had a more significant onscreen part as a young electronics expert opposite Sean Connery in the Sidney Lumet-helmed crime thriller, "The Anderson Tapes." The following year, Walken had his first lead role in "The Happiness Cage," a mad scientist thriller in which he played an obnoxious young man who is used in an experiment that involves removing pain through a brain operation. Returning to t
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
Biographies you may also like
Nasir ud din shah biography of christopher Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud "Roshan Chirag-e-Dehli" (Urdu نصیرالدین چراغ دہلوی) [2] (c. –) was a 14th-century mystic-poet and a Sufi saint of the Chishti was a disciple and Missing: christopher.
Chan wook park biography of christopher walken actor, director. 81 Year (United States). biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, awards, news, birthday and age, Real name. Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, , in Missing: chan wook park.
Vicki lester biography of christopher columbus First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began .
Onamo namo nenad jezdic biography Dramski umetnik Nenad Jezdić svojim glumačkim bravurama svakom liku daje poseban pečat, pokušavajući da ga oboji tako da se razlikuje od onog predhodnog. Od Missing: biography.
Provincial carlos vives biography in english Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for his interpretation of traditional music styles of Colombia such as va.
Piyoli phukan biography template You can make use of the personal biography template offered by this site to easily and in a more convenient way generate your own biography without missing out on the important details. We Missing: piyoli phukan.