Biography
Christopher Wasken is American theater and movie actor. This actor can be seen in more than hundreds of films. The amount of their rental reached $ 1.8 billion. At the same time, the Hollywood star often embodied negative, even sinister heroes, often with mental disabilities.
Christopher Wacken (real name given at birth - Ronald) was born in the spring of 1943 in Queens - the second largest Boro of New York. Artistry boy showed early childhood. He adored the theater and was fond of dancing.
Favorite entertainment for him were hiking in the cinema. Often Ronald represented itself on the screen. In order to feel involvement in the mouncing the world of the hyseridism, the little Wacken even settled in the circus, participating in some rooms for free. This turned out to be the first lessons of acting skills Christopher Wacken.
In 10 years, Waspen was lucky enough to get acquainted with the famous TV presenter Jerry Lewis and even get to the popular show "The Colgate Comedy Hour". It seems that exactly then the boy took the final decision to become an artist.
A year later, the cinematic biography of Christopher Waolen began. His debut took place in the legendary soap opera, which for his duration was listed in the Guinness Book of Records. The series "Guiding Light" went on screens in 1952 and broadcast until 2009. The 11-year-old Wacken was invited to act as Mike Bauer in 1954. Teenager played 2 years in a row.
Films
After a successful debut on the screen, a 15-year-old parenchy continued his career on the frames of the Broadway Theater. Wacken played Shakespeare Hamlet and Romeo, appeared in the performances of Coriolian and Macbeth. During this period, he replaced the name Ronald on Christopher.
At 18, Wazen decided to receive theatrical education and entered the University of Hofstra, where his fellowship was Lisa Minhelli. At this time, Christopher continued to improve his dance skill. At the age of 20, the actor was still professionally dancing, Ukenn even went to the touring tour with his choreographic rooms.
In 1993, the actor appeared in Madonna's clip on the song "Bad Girl".
After graduating from the University, Christopher Wacken continued to go to theatrical scene and filmed into the cinema. Perhaps the most striking works on the screen were roles in the halls "Halmark Hall", "Department 5-O" and "Guiding Light".
But film critics are starting to count the cinematic biography of the Hollywood Star since 1969, when Wacken appeared in the painting "I and my brother." It was after it that the famous director noticed a young actor and began to offer him responsible roles. So, after the above-mentioned picture, Sydney Lumet suggested Wassen to play in his film "Anderson films", where the key role was played by Sean Connery.
The real interest in the person of the artist woke up by film critics and directories after his appearance in the episode of the sensational film "Annie Hall", published in the 1977th. Behind this small role followed the star, after which the artist woke up truly famous. The image of the Russian American Nicano Chebotarevich in the drama "Deer Hunter" brought Christophore to Oscar Ukara.
1980-90 is the flourishing career of Christopher Wacken. During this period, he is in the zenith of popularity and rightfully occupies his niche in Hollywood. Keyshit "Songs of the Heavens", "Brainstorming", "Dead Zone - Dark Zone", "James Bond: A view of the murder" and "Contact" brings world famous to Wasken.
The actor is filmed in the paintings, which almost immediately receive the status of cult. Christopher Wacken appeared in the famous film "Criminal Chivo". Quentin Tarantino's film received the Oscar Award and four more dozen other prestigious film charts, also "Criminal Fiction" annually falls into the top ten best films in the lists published on the IMDB website.
In this film, Christopher Wacken appears only in a secondary role. But the monologue of his character is Captain Kuns - the novel "Golden Watch" opens. This gathering madness and absurd a monologue about the war and Vietnamese captivity became one of the brightest and quoted film scenes.
But most often the heroes of the actor are negative characters, ominous and semi-sustained types. In this role, Christopher really looks most organically. Despite the fact that the main roles get other actors, the Uken becomes a cult artist.
It is not surprising that the actor with such an amplua began to appear in the pictures of the famous fan of mystical and dark scenes Tim Berton. At first, the Wacken appeared in the comic-militant "Batman returns" as a corrupt businessman Max Shrek. And in 1999, Christopher Uken played in the gothic horror movie "Sleepy Hollow", the film by the famous "Legend of the Sleepy Hollow" Washington Irving. Christopher Wacken received the role of the main mysterious villain - the rider without a head.
An even more actor strengthened mystical and cracked role, playing the role of Archangel Gabriel in a series of mystical thrillers "prophecy". Here the actor got the main role.
These are three films, combined with the plot with biblical references. The main characters of paintings are Angels, and in the center of the plot lies the war in paradise, caused by discontent part of the angels by the fact that the people were given to the souls. Christopher Hero is Uaken in order to defeat in the confrontation, looking for the very dark human soul on earth. At the same time, although the character is an angel, movies more than once emphasize the sinister essence of the hero.
In 2000, Christopher Wacken is still popular. The actor fans get a surprise: a favorite artist appears in comedy images. This can be seen in the "Four funeral and one wedding" tapes and the country of bears. Whalepopa, but a vivid role went to the actor in the film School Stephen Spielberg "Catch me if you can". Wacken for this work is nominated for the Oscar Award. It is noteworthy that he did not give in popularity to the famous colleagues on the project Leonardo Da Pario and That Hanksu.
Over time, by virtue of age, the role of the actor was shifted towards former criminal authorities, villains on pensions and other acute agricultural old people. In such roles, Christopher Wacken appears mainly in comedy paintings. A vivid example of such an image was the role in the criminal comedy "Real guys", in which Al Pachino became a partner on the shooting platform. Together, the actors played long-standing accomplices, dreaming to return to the former criminal glory.
Personal life
For paparazzi and journalists of yellow tabloids, the personal life of Christopher Wacken is a boring topic. There is nothing to "get used": the actor has been married for 35 years old on Agent by Casting Georgiana. Spouses got acquainted on the set of early artist films when the actor was not yet so popular. Since then, this couple is always together. Neither treason nor scandals in this marriage place are not.
The only thing that might overshadow the life of spouses is the absence of children. But here everything is simple: the Uken does not like children and never dreamed of them.
The topic is no less, in the biography of the Wacken there are dark pages. In 2011, the investigation of the resonant cause of the death of Natalie Wood, which disappeared during the maritime travel. At the yacht, at that time a husband of Actress Robert Wagner and a friend of the Christopher Waken family. Men gave contradictory testimony, but the case was recognized as an accident and closed. In the course of the new investigation, the status of the incident was replaced by drowning.
Christopher Wacken now
Today, the actor continues to be filmed, but more and more family and comedy films. In 2016, Christopher Wacken voiced the King Louis in the animation-playing family film "Jungle Book" in the same name of the product of Kipling, and also played the secondary roles in the sports comedy "Eagle" about the first British jumper from a springboard at the Olympic Games and Comedy "Nine Lives "about a man who won in the body of a cat. In 2017, the actor also appeared in a secondary role in the comedy "Who is our dad, dude?".Filmography
- 1969 - "I and my brother"
- 1971 - "Magnetic Tape Anderson"
- 1977 - "Annie Hall"
- 1978 - "Deer Hunter"
- 1983 - "Brainstorm"
- 1983 - "Dead Zone - Dark Zone"
- 1985 - "James Bond: A view of the murder"
- 1994 - "Criminal Chivo"
- 1995 - "Prophecy"
- 1999 - "Sleepy Hollow"
- 2002 - "Catch me if you can"