Many took to Twitter to wish the Academy Award-winning actor a happy birthday. Walken was born in in Queens, New York, to a family of five. Like his brothers, Walken became a child actor in the '50s, appearing as an extra on a number of television shows.
Happy birthday to accomplished alien dancefloor groover Christopher Walken! He is 78 today. Walken went on to attend Hofstra University, before dropping out a year in when he got a role in the off-broadway production Best Foot Forward.
After acting on the stage for many years, Walken made his silver screen debut in the film The Anderson Tapes alongside Sean Connery. Since his first movie in , Walken went on to be the starring actor in a movie, The Happiness Cage, just a year later. In the film, Walken plays the role of an emotionally scarred Vietnam War veteran. To prepare for the role, Walken committed to a three-week diet consisting of just bananas, rice and water.
Walken is also famous for his one-scene cameo's. His manner of speech was in fact the subject of an SNL skit which focused on an imaginary Walken family reunion. I could get away with being a German commandant and not really have to do a lot of accent, because I already sound like I don't speak English that well," he told Entertainment Weekly. Walken gave a subtle performance as Frank's father, which earned him his second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
He later earned a Tony Award nomination for his work in the production. Walken had continued to work on Broadway from the mids into the '80s, with projects that included The Merchant of Venice and Hurlyburly.
He became part of pop music history in by starring in the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice. After making a splash in the movie-musical Hairspray , as the husband of a gender-bending John Travolta , he returned to the Broadway stage in with A Behanding in Spokane.
The summer of saw Walken appearing in two music-related projects: Clint Eastwood 's film adaptation of Broadway's Jersey Boys and the television broadcast of Peter Pan Live! Still clicking with audiences, Walken appeared in such comedies as the box-office hit Wedding Crashers , Click , with Adam Sandler , and the ping-pong farce Balls of Fury Macy, and then co-starred in Todd Solondz's Dark Horse Again showing his capacity for villainy, he played crime men in both Kill the Irishman and Stand Up Guys , the latter featuring Al Pacino and Alan Arkin, and was seen as a dognapping schemer in Seven Psychopaths We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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