Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Wilson has had leading roles in Behind Enemy Lines, I Spy, Marley and Me, Midnight in Paris, and a number of Frat Pack comedies.
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Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Wilson has had leading roles in Behind Enemy Lines, I Spy, Marley and Me, Midnight in Paris, and a number of Frat Pack comedies including Zoolander, Starsky & Hutch, Wedding Crashers, You, Me and Dupree, Drillbit Taylor, How Do You Know, The Big Year, and The Internship. For his role as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender in Midnight In Paris, he earned a Golden Globe nomination. In 2006, Wilson voiced Lightning McQueen in the DisneyPixar film Cars. He appeared with Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum as cowboy Jedediah Stiller. Wilson appeared in another Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited, which screened at the 45th annual New York Film Festival, September 30, 2007.
He co-stars with Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody in The Battle of the Bulge, released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 1, 2008. He is the middle child of three sons of photographer Laura Wilson and Robert Andrew Wilson, an advertising executive and operator of a public television station. His parents, of Irish descent were originally from Massachusetts. Wilson attended New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Texas at Austin where he pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. His older brother Andrew and younger brother Luke are also actors. Wilson starred in the 2000 comedy action film Shanghai Noon alongside Jackie Chan. Wilson returned to the buddy-comedy genre in 2002 with the action comedy I Spy, co-starring Eddie Murphy. In 2004, he and his brother Luke played the Wright brothers in the 2004 film Around the World in 80 Days.
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