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Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943), is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor. He was born in the Astoria section of the New York City borough of Queens to a German father and Scottish-born mother. Walken has been married to casting director Georgianne Walken since 1969.
Career
Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before moving on to more serious roles in theatre and then film. A select number of his movies include dance moves that he has worked in, reflecting this early background.
He has been in nearly one hundred movies and television shows since 1953, including The Dead Zone (1983), Brainstorm (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992) True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Nick of Time (1995), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Around the Bend (2004). He was George Lucas' second choice for Han Solo after Harrison Ford. film.quardian.co.uk www.timburtoncollective.com He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter (1978) where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. He was nominated again in 2002 for Catch Me if You Can.
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