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
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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
Christopher Walken: Die US-Legende im Porträt
Es gibt Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler, die seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert vor der Kamera und auf den Theaterbühnen stehen. Und je älter sie werden, desto seltener gelingt es uns, sie in neuen Filmen zu bewundern. Einer unter ihnen ist Christopher Walken – oftmals in bösen Rollen besetzt, überzeugte er über Jahrzehnte hinweg mit tiefsinnigen und wandlungsfähigen Charakteren. So einzigartig sein Auftreten, so unverwechselbar sind seine Stimme und sein Aussehen. Zwei Merkmale, die er immer häufiger zum Wohle der Gesellschaft einsetzt.
Erste Schritte einer späteren Weltkarriere
Viele Künstler haben sich im Laufe ihres Lebens inspirieren und damit zu jenen großen Taten motivieren lassen, die sie in späteren Jahren erschaffen sollten. Auch Christopher Walken, dessen Vorname eigentlich Ronald lautet, gehört zu ihnen.
Denn der im Jahre geborene Darsteller stand bereits auffallend früh vor der Kamera: Als dreijähriges Kind ließ er sich für Werbefotos ablichten und mit gerade einmal zehn Jahren hatte er jene Begegnung, die sein Leben fortan verändern sollte.
In einer Fernsehproduktion traf er die beiden Show-Legenden Dean M
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Christopher Walken, yılında yönetmenliğini Michael Cimino'nun yaptığı “The Deer Hunter/Avcı” filminde Robert De Niro ile birlikte rol aldı. Bu filmdeki rolü ile yılında Oscar Ödülleri töreninde “En İyi Yardımcı Erkek Oyuncu” ödülünü kazandı.
Christopher Walken, 31 Mart tarihinde ABD, New York, Queens’de doğmuştur. Asıl adı Ronald Christopher Walken’dir. Fırıncılık yapan babası Paul Wälken Alman, annesi Rosalie (Russell), Glasgow'lu bir İskoç göçmenidir. New York'ta bulunan Hofstra Üniversitesinde eğitimine başlamış ancak mezun olmadan ayrılmıştır. ANTA Washington Square Tiyatrosunda dans da dahil olmak üzere sahne sanatını öğrendi.
15 yaşında bir sirkte aslan terbiyecisi olarak kısaca çalıştı.
Christopher Walken, çoğu zaman psikolojik açıdan dengesiz bireyleri betimleyen karakter rollerinde görüldü.
İlk oynadığı film yılında başrolünde Sean Connery’in oynadığı “The Anderson Tapes/ Korkunç Soygun” olmuştur.
Christopher Walken, yılında yönetmenliğini Michael Cimino'nun yaptığı “The Deer Hunter/Avcı” filminde Robert De Niro ile birlikte rol aldı. Bu filmdeki rolü ile yılında Oscar Ödül
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