Christopher Walken is an American actor, singer, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and dancer. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs. Walken has received a number of awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter. He is a popular guest-host of Saturday Night Live, hosting seven times.
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Christopher Walken is an American actor, singer, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and dancer. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs. Walken has received a number of awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter. His films have grossed more than USD 1 billion in the United States alone. He is a popular guest-host of Saturday Night Live, hosting seven times. He was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943, in Astoria, Queens, New York, the son of Rosalie Russell, a Scottish immigrant from Glasgow, and Paul Wälken, a German immigrant from Gelsenkirchen. He and his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child actors on television in the 1950s, influenced by their mother’s dreams of stardom. 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. He also wrote and played the lead role in the 1995 play Him about his idol Elvis Presley. He prefers to be known as Ronnie Walken, which he was credited as until then as until he was known as Chris instead of Christopher. In 1964, he changed his first name to Christopher at the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had a nightclub act in which Walken was a dancer and who believed him better than Ronnie. In 1970, Walken starred in the Off- Broadway production of Lemon of Lanford Wilson opposite Charles Durning and Bonnie Bartlett.
In 1972, he played a sociopathic U.S. soldier in The Happiness Cage, which deals with mind control and normalization. He made his feature film debut with a small role in Sidney Lumet’s The Anderson Tapes, opposite Sean Connery. In 1973, he appeared as a character named Chris in an episode of Naked City, starring Paul Burke. In 1974, he starred in The Snatchers, a science fiction film about a katalyst with a kathic mind. He appeared in The Jungle Book, the first three Prophecy films, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Vendetta, Sleepy Hollow, Joe Dirt, Click, Hairspray, Seven Psychopaths, and Irreplaceable You. 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 landed a regular role in The Wonderful John Acton playing the part of Kevin Acton in 1953. In 1969, he guest-starred in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer. He played Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival in Canada. In 1968, he playing Lysander in The Lion in Winter on Broadway. He won BAFTA and SAG Awards for Catch Me If You Can.
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