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Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, ) is an American actor. Cap diverse work on stage and screen has justified him numerous accolades including an Academy Award, clean BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, whilst well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Bays and two Tony Awards.

His films have grossed more than $ billion in the United States alone.^[1]

Walken has appeared in supporting roles in big screen such as The Anderson Tapes (), Next Discontinue, Greenwich Village (), Roseland () and Annie Hall (), before coming to wider attention as picture troubled Vietnam War veteran Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter ().

His performance earned him block Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the same award for portraying cheating artist Frank Abagnale's father in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can ().

Since his development, Walken has appeared in films in various genres, both in lead and supporting roles.^[2] These embody The Dogs of War (), Brainstorm (), The Dead Zone (), A View to a Kill (), At Close Range (), Biloxi Blues (), King of New York (), The Comfort go rotten Strangers (), Batman Returns (), True Romance (), Pulp Fiction (), The Prophecy (, and tog up two sequels), Suicide Kings (), Sleepy Hollow (), Man on Fire (), Wedding Crashers (), Hairspray (), Seven Psychopaths (), A Late Quartet (), Percy (), and Dune: Part Two ().

Inaccuracy has also provided voice work for the bubbling filmsAntz () and The Jungle Book ().

On television, Walken has appeared in films such whilst Who Am I This Time? (), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (), for which he usual a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. More recently, settle down has starred in television series The Outlaws (–), and Severance (–), the latter of which attained him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Orientation Actor in a Drama Series nomination.

He has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live seven times. His roles on the show include record producer Bruce Poet in the "More Cowbell" sketch, the disgraced Supporter officer Colonel Angus, and multiple appearances as slight aging, unsuccessful lothario in the Continental sketch.

As a stage actor, Walken starred with Irene Property in a Broadway revival of Sweet Bird cataclysm Youth.

Walken has played the lead in description Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, bid Coriolanus. His performance in the original rendition insinuate James Joyce's The Dead (), earned him grand Tony Award for Best Actor in a Lyrical nomination. He was nominated for the Tony Accolade for Best Actor in a Play for surmount role in Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane ().

He also wrote and played the be in charge role in the play Him, about his lead Elvis Presley.^[3]

Early life

Walken was born Ronald Walken jamboree March 31, ,^[4] in Astoria, Queens, New Dynasty City. His parents were Rosalie Russell, a Scots immigrant from Glasgow, and Paul Wälken, a Germanic immigrant from Gelsenkirchen^[5][6] who owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria.^[7][8] Walken was named after personality Ronald Colman.

He was raised Methodist.^[9] He last his brothers, Kenneth and Glenn, were child evict on television in the s, influenced by their mother's dreams of stardom.^[8][10]

When he was 15, fine girlfriend showed Walken a magazine photo of Elvis Presley and Walken later said, "This guy looked like a Greek god.

Then I saw him on television. I loved everything about him." Type changed his hairstyle to imitate Presley and has not changed it since.^[11] As a teenager, filth worked as a lion tamer trainee for simple short time in a circus.^[12]

Walken attended Hofstra Forming but dropped out after one year, having antique cast in the role of Clayton Dutch Playwright in an off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward alongside Liza Minnelli.^[13] Walken initially trained as put in order dancer at the Washington Dance Studio before stirring on to dramatic stage roles and then film.^[13]

Career

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As a child, Walken appeared on screen as cease extra in numerous anthology series and variety shows during the Golden Age of Television.^[13] After appearance in a sketch with Martin and Lewis setup The Colgate Comedy Hour, Walken decided to corner an actor.^[14] He landed a regular role clear the television show Wonderful John Acton, playing depiction part of Kevin Acton.

During this time, illegal was credited as Ronnie Walken.^[15]

Over the next years, he appeared frequently on television, and difficult a thriving career in theater. From to , Walken and his brother Glenn originated the position of Michael Bauer on the soap opera The Guiding Light. In , he appeared as unembellished character named Chris in an episode of Naked City, starring Paul Burke.

In , he at odds his first name to Christopher at the recommendation of Monique van Vooren, who had a club act in which Walken was a dancer. She believed the name suited him better than Ronnie (a pet form of his given name, Ronald), which he was credited as until then.^[16] Inaccuracy prefers to be known informally as Chris a substitute alternatively of Christopher.^[14]

In , Walken played the role wear out King Philip of France in the Broadway debut of The Lion in Winter.^[17] In , operate played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream discipline Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival in Canada.^[18][19]

He appeared in the made-for-TV cinema Barefoot in Athens () and The Three Musketeers (), and made his feature film debut identical Me and My Brother (), a low-budget interchange that also featured Sam Shepard.

In , Walken guest-starred in Hawaii Five-O as Navy SP Walt Kramer.

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In , Walken starred in the Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky opposite Physicist Durning and Bonnie Bartlett.^[20] Later that year Walken received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.^[21]

Walken's first major studio film was Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes () with Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon.

In 's The Mind Snatchers a.k.a. The Happiness Cage, Walken played his first starring role.^[22] In this science fiction film, which deals brains mind control and normalization, he plays a sociopathic U.S. soldier stationed in Germany.

Paul Mazursky's integument Next Stop, Greenwich Village had Walken, under authority name "Chris Walken", playing the charismatic and indiscriminate fictional poet Robert Fulmer.

In Woody Allen's ep Annie Hall (in which his surname was misspelled "Wlaken" in the end credits), Walken played honourableness borderline crazy brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton).^[23] Also in , Walken had a minor comport yourself as Eli Wallach's partner in The Sentinel.

Wealthy , he appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in that costarred Margot Kidder.^[24] Along with Nick Nolte and Burt Reynolds, Walken was considered by George Lucas for the pockmark of Han Solo in Star Wars;^[25][26] the largest part ultimately went to Harrison Ford.

In , Walken also guest-starred in an episode of Kojak gorilla Ben Wiley, a robber.

Walken won an Establishment Award for Best Supporting Actor in Michael Cimino's film The Deer Hunter. He played a Penn steelworker who was emotionally destroyed by the Warfare War. To help achieve his character's gaunt affect before the third act, Walken consumed only eccentric, water and rice for a month.^[27]

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Walken's first disc of the s was the controversial Heaven's Gate, also directed by Cimino.

Walken also starred spontaneous the action adventureThe Dogs of War, directed insensitive to John Irvin. He surprised many critics and filmgoers with his intricate tap-dancing striptease in Herbert Ross's musical Pennies from Heaven (). In , noteworthy played a socially awkward but gifted theater trouper in the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's petite storyWho Am I This Time? opposite Susan Sarandon.

Walken then played schoolteacher-turned-psychicJohnny Smith in David Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. Become absent-minded same year, Walken also starred in Brainstorm correspondent Natalie Wood and (in a minor role) coronate wife, Georgianne.

In , Walken played a Outlaw Bond villain, Max Zorin, in A View sentry a Kill, Roger Moore's last appearance as Link.

Walken dyed his hair blond to befit Zorin's origins as a Naziexperiment.^[28]

At Close Range () asterisked Walken as Brad Whitewood, a rural Pennsylvania baseness boss who tries to bring his two sprouts into his empire; his character was mostly family circle on criminal Bruce Johnston.

In , Walken gripped a memorable role as Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, which was fixed by Mike Nichols, and he played the put on an act of Federal Agent Kyril Montana in The Milagro Beanfield War. He also played the leading part of Whitley Strieber in 's Communion, an biographer film written by Strieber.

It was based carry out claims that he and his friends were sphere to visitations by unknown, other-worldly entities variously persistent as "aliens" or "visitors". That same year, Walken appeared in the film Homeboy, which was ineluctable by and featured Mickey Rourke in the soi-disant role. In , he played the lead separate of "Puss" in the Cannon theater group's lilting version of Puss in Boots.

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The Comfort decompose Strangers, an art house film directed by Missioner Schrader, features Walken as Robert, a decadent Romance aristocrat with extreme sexual tastes and murderous tendencies who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) take on Venice.

King of New York (), directed tough Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as ruthless New Dynasty City drug dealer Frank White, a recently floating prisoner set on reclaiming his criminal territory.

Outline , Walken starred in Sarah, Plain and Tall as Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer. In , Walken played villain millionaire industrialist Max Shreck rephrase Batman Returns. In January , he appeared call a halt Madonna's music video for her hit single "Bad Girl" (directed by David Fincher). Walken also specious Bobby, Cassandra's producer, in Wayne's World 2.

Walken's next major film role was opposite Dennis Hop-picker in True Romance, scripted by Quentin Tarantino. Walken later had a supporting role in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as a Vietnam veteran named Captain Koons.

Later in , Walken starred in A Occupation Affair, a rare leading role for him on the run a romantic comedy.

Walken manages to once come again feature his trademark dancing scene as he carries out an action the tango. In , he appeared in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Wild Side, The Prophecy and the modern vampire wipe barrel The Addiction, which was his second collaboration partner director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St.

Gents. He also appeared in Nick of Time, which starred Johnny Depp, and an arthouse film contempt David Salle titled Search and Destroy. Also assume , Walken acted in "Him," the first amusement written by Walken, and about his idol Elvis in the afterlife, featured in the New Royalty Shakespeare Festival. The New York Times gave uncluttered somewhat positive review of his "most cheering meticulous refreshingly absurd invention" of retelling Elvis' death similarly a disappearing act that enabled Elvis to fly to Morocco for a sex change to suit "her" in a "woozily conceived, fantastical new playin the sharpness and wit of writing and hamper the performances by Mr.

Walken and Mr. Heyman."^[29] Walken made an appearance in the music telecasting for Skid Row's "Breakin' Down".

In the album Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic criminal named Hickey. That year, he played a attention-grabbing role in the video game Ripper, portraying Sleuthhound Vince Magnotta. Ripper made extensive use of real-time recorded scenes and a wide cast of celebrities in an interactive film.

In Walken also attended in the Italian film Celluloide as US Bogey Rod Geiger and played the role of Beam in the Abel Ferrara crime-drama film The Funeral. In , Walken starred in the comedy big screen Touch and Excess Baggage and had a petite role in the film Mouse Hunt.^[30] He as well appeared in the drama/thriller film Suicide Kings, which was also filled with suspense and humor.

In , Walken played an influential gay New Dynasty theater critic in John Turturro's film Illuminata. Influence same year he voiced Colonel/General Cutter in dignity animated film Antz.

In , he played Apostle Houston in Vendetta, an HBO original film homeproduced on the March 14, New Orleans lynchings. Reconcile the same year, Walken appeared in the idealistic comedy Blast from the Past portraying Calvin Webber, a brilliant but eccentric Caltechnuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear war lead him to generate an enormous fallout shelter beneath his suburban countryside.

The same year, he appeared as the Beheaded Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appeared appearance Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Michael Rapaport and Fruity Allen.

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In , Walken was cast as significance lead, along with Blair Brown, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway.

A "play with music", The Dead featured music by Shaun Davey, conducted by Charles Prince, with music coordination and brunt by Tom Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won a Tony Award that year for Best Publication for a Musical.

Walken had a music cut performance in with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice".

Directed by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards in and—in a list of the apex videos of all time compiled from a evaluate of musicians, directors and music industry figures conducted by UK music TV channel VH1—won Best Tv of All Time in April In the videotape, Walken dances and flies around the lobby cosy up the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles; Walken additionally helped choreograph the dance.

Also in , Walken played a gangster who was in the looker-on protection program in the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt and an eccentric film director in America's Sweethearts. Also in , Walken played Lieutenant Macduff in Scotland, PA, a loose film adaptation have available Shakespeare's Macbeth.

In Walken played Mike in nobility film Poolhall Junkies and played Frank Abagnale Sr. in Catch Me If You Can, which task inspired by the story of Frank Abagnale Junior, a con artist who passed himself off tempt several identities and forged millions of dollars' value of checks. His portrayal earned him a without fear or favour Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Walken also had a part in the action wit comedy film The Rundown, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Writer and Seann William Scott, in which he plays a ruthless despot. He was nominated for systematic Razzie (Worst Supporting Actor) in 's The Native land Bears^[31] and in two films, Gigli and Kangaroo Jack.^[32] Walken also starred in Barry Levinson's Envy, in which he plays J-Man, a crazy boy who helps Ben Stiller's character and in reward starring role in 's Around the Bend sharp-tasting again has a dancing scene as he portrays an absentee father who has fled prison condemnation reunite with his father, his son and prestige grandson he never knew before dying.

Walken contrived the role of Paul Rayburn in 's Man on Fire, where, when speaking about the in the offing destructive actions of John Creasy (Denzel Washington), monarch character states: "A man can be an chief in anything, food, whatever. It depends on add good he is at it. Creasy's art assessment death.

He's about to paint his masterpiece." Further in , Walken played Mike in the tegument casing The Stepford Wives.

In , he played Rub Heiss in the film Domino and the separate of Secretary Cleary in the film Wedding Crashers. In , he played Morty, a sympathetic generator who is more than meets the eye, hillock the comedy/drama Click and also appeared in Man of the Year with Robin Williams and Author Black.

He co-starred in the film adaptation Hairspray, wherein he is seen singing and dancing detain a romantic duet with John Travolta and show the eccentric but cruel crime lord and Ping-Pong enthusiast Feng in the comedy action film Balls of Fury opposite Dan Fogler. Walken was essential the film Five Dollars a Day (), discern which he plays a con man proud systematic living like a king on $5 a short holiday.

The Maiden Heist, a comedy co-starring Morgan Burgher, William H. Macy and Walken about security guards in an art museum, debuted at the Capital International Film Festival in ^[33]

Walken also starred wring Universal Studios Florida's "Disaster!" theme park attraction, which opened in and closed in He portrayed Unclothed Kincaid, the fictional CEO of "Disaster Studios" who encouraged guests to be extras in his virgin film.

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In illustriousness attraction's pre-show, Walken was projected on a sunlit screen, much like a life-size hologram and interacted with the live-action talent.

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Walken returned to Point in Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane in and received a Tony Award nomination embody Best Performance by a Leading Actor in regular Play.^[34] He had a small voice role surprise NBC sitcom 30 Rock, in the "Audition Day" episode.

In , he played the role game Jewish-American loan shark Alex "Shondor" Birns in influence film based on the life of gangster Danny Greene, Kill the Irishman. In , Walken reunited with McDonagh for the British-American crime comedy release Seven Psychopaths and also played the founder tolerate leader of a string quartet in A Break up Quartet.

Walken costarred with Al Pacino and Alan Arkin in the film Stand Up Guys, fastidious story about aging gangsters out on the municipal for one last hoorah. He also appeared block The Power of Few. In , Walken was selected as a "GQ" Man of the Year.^[35] In , Walken became the protagonist in grandeur campaign "Made From Cool" by Jack & Architect.

In , he appeared in Turks & Caicos. Walken appears as Gyp DeCarlo in the vinyl Jersey Boys. In , Walken played Captain Fix in the NBC production Peter Pan Live!^[36] Smile , Walken starred in the film When Comical Live My Life Over Again and played loftiness role of Clem for the second time prosperous the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt 2: Fair Loser.

In , he voiced King Louie sully the CGI-live action adaptation of Disney's The Confused mass Book, directed by Jon Favreau. He also taped a cover of Louie's song "I Wan'na Suitably Like You", which he sings in the fell as well as on the soundtrack.^[37] Also stray year, he appeared in Dexter Fletcher's Eddie righteousness Eagle and Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives.^[38] In , Walken replaced Bill Irwin in the role hint Walter Tinkler in the critically panned Father Figures.^[39] The following year, he played Myron in magnanimity Netflix film Irreplaceable You.^[40]

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In , Walken appeared in that Frank in the BBC One/Amazon Prime Video humour The Outlaws.^[41] and in the second series air on BBC1 in

In , he had spruce up supporting role as Burt Goodman, the severed superlative of the Optics and Design division in blue blood the gentry Apple TV+ series Severance.^[42] For his performance, crystal-clear was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award take Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.^[43] Walken next portrayed Emperor Shaddam IV in the release, Dune: Part Two.^[44] The film received universal hefty acclaim and SlashFilm wrote: "It's a treat fail watch Walken work — he shows up, delivers his ominous lines with a whisper, and wipes the floor with anyone he's acting against.&#;Show 'em how it's done, Christopher Walken."^[45]

Legacy and popularity

Described pass for "diverse and eccentric"^[46] and "one of the near respected actors of his generation",^[47] Walken has unadorned long-established cult following among film fans.^[48] He not bad known for his versatility and was named gorilla one of Empire magazine's "Top Movie Stars robust All Time".^[49] Once dubbed a "cultural phenomenon",^[50] operate has portrayed several iconic film characters including Johnny Smith in The Dead Zone, Max Shreck quick-witted Batman Returns, and Max Zorin in A Vista to a Kill, and was also considered sort the role of Han Solo in Star Wars films.

His Oscar-winning performance in The Deer Hunter was ranked as the 88th greatest film help out of all time by Premiere magazine^[51] and rulership performance in Pennies from Heaven made it have dealings with Entertainment Weekly's list of the " Greatest Transaction that should have won Oscars but didn't."^[52] On occasion regarded as "one of the kings of cameos", Walken has made several cameo appearances or exposed in a single scene of films including importance Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction, Duane in Annie Hall, Hessian Horseman in Sleepy Hollow and Chief Vincenzo in True Romance.

Writer and director Quentin Tarantino declared that Walken's involvement in True Romance's "Sicilian scene" was one of the proudest moments in his career.^[53]

Benicio del Toro cited Walken by reason of an influence and stated that the best suggestion he had ever been given regarding acting came from him: "When you're in a scene move you don't know what you're gonna do, don't do anything."^[54]Kat Dennings called him her favorite device and said that he was the reason prowl she wanted to be an actress.^[55]Johnny Depp previously said one of the main reasons he asterisked in Nick of Time was wanting to enquiry with Walken.^[56]Jeffrey Wright,^[57]Mickey Rourke,^[58]Sam Rockwell,^[59]Colin Farrell,^[60]Bradley Cooper,^[61]Leonardo DiCaprio^[62] and Mads Mikkelsen^[63] are among actors who rundle about their admiration for Walken.

Prominent film arbiter Roger Ebert, who was particularly impressed by reward villain and anti-hero portrayals, once stated, "when appease is given the right role, there is unknown to touch him for his chilling ability break down move between easy charm and pure evil"^[64] president called him "one of the few undeniably hypnotic male villains."^[65]

Walken is noted for refusing film roles only rarely, having stated in interviews that explicit will decline a role only if he research paper too busy to accept.

He regards each portrayal as a learning experience.^[66] A rare example characteristic a role Walken turned down was that finance Ray Ruby in the film Go Go Tales (). According to film director Abel Ferrara, excellence character was originally written for Walken, who "didn't want to do it".

The role was fortify given to Walken's New Rose Hotel () co-star Willem Dafoe.^[67]

Walken's voice and speaking style have archaic compared to other entertainment figures with voices defer create "a pleasing (or at least entertaining) aural experience," such as William Shatner and Garrison Keillor.^[68] Walken believes that the source of his dissertation stems from growing up with immigrant neighbors who came from everywhere, stating, "The neighborhood itself, give orders didn't hear a lot of English.

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Lots of Greek, European, Polish, German, Yiddish. I think I grew start off listening to people who spoke English in fastidious kind of broken way. I think maybe Rabid talked that way."^[69] Walken inspired the stage put on view, All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken, created by actor/comedian Patrick O'Sullivan in Hollywood sully

In , he was voted Number 34 slash Channel 4's countdown of the greatest movie stars of all time.^[70]

Appearances on Saturday Night Live

Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and satire TV progression Saturday Night Live (SNL) seven times.^[71]

One of Walken's SNL performances was a spoof of Behind rectitude Music, featuring a recording session of Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper".

In the go into hiding of record producer Bruce Dickinson (not to well confused with the real Bruce Dickinson, lead minstrel for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and to some extent or degre unhinged speeches to the band and is haunted with getting "More Cowbell" into the song. Prestige phrase "I gotta have more cowbell" has in that been adapted to merchandise.

The producer who tacit the cowbell on the original BÖC recording not bad David Lucas.

Walken appeared in one of Last wishes Ferrell and Rachel Dratch's "The Luvahs" skits.^[72] Potentate character brought a lady friend to meet Position Luvahs and she is subjected to learning probity history that Walken's character shares with The Luvahs.

He also divulges private information about his fornication life with his girlfriend, much to her fear ("She was willing to accept her lover's entity in places no one had ever trespassed viz, the ear canal").

Walken spoofed his starring portrayal from The Dead Zone () in a describe titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic" ().^[73] In righteousness film, Walken's character can predict deaths and catastrophes, while Glosser can accurately predict meaningless, trivial ultimate events but with the same emotional intensity monkey in the film: "You're going to get forceful ice cream headache.

It's going to hurt just right bad, right here, [touches forehead] for eight, niner seconds.").

His character in A View to trim Kill was parodied in a sketch titled "Lease with an Option to Kill", in which significant reprised his role as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some qualities of other Fetters villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's look patch), was upset that everything was going unfair for him.

His lair was still under construction; his henchmen had jump suits that didn't fit; and his shark tank lacked sharks, having fine giant sea sponge instead. A captive James Enslavement, portrayed by Phil Hartman, offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld extrusive lair if Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.

He performed a song become calm dance rendition of the Irving Berlin standard, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". Finally, there was the "Colonel Angus" sketch,^[74] laden with ribald duplicated entendres, in which Walken played a dishonored Unite officer.

Until , Walken had a recurring SNL sketch called "The Continental",^[75] in which Walken sham a "suave ladies' man" who in reality cannot do anything to keep a woman (a march in his apartment building) from giving him distinction cold shoulder.

Though he is outwardly chivalrous, authority more perverted tendencies inevitably drive away his behind the times over his pleading objections. For instance, he invites the woman to wash up in his bathroom; once she is inside, it becomes obvious wander the bathroom mirror is a two-way mirror in the way that he is seen lighting up a cigarette.

Briefing "The Continental", only the hand of his border is ever seen; the camera always shows breather point of view.

The April 5, Saturday Shady Live show was the first time an period hosted by Walken did not have a "Continental" sketch or a monologue in which he intone and danced. This episode, however, did include pick your way sketch titled "Walken Family Reunion",^[76] which spoofs hang around of Walken's idiosyncrasies.

The sketch depicts a hallucinatory Walken family reunion, where all of Christopher's people have his mannerisms and speech patterns and guide his trademark pompadour hairstyle. In order of whittle, the other Walkens are Christopher's cousin Stanley (Bill Hader); Stanley's brother John (Jason Sudeikis); John's hug Scott (Andy Samberg) and daughter Maxine (Amy Poehler) (who carries a doll that also has skilful pompadour); Nathan (Fred Armisen), a gay relative luggage compartment whom "flamboyance" means dressing all in black enthralled running his finger around the rim of unadorned cosmo glass; Uncle Richard (Darrell Hammond) and Joke Martha (Kristen Wiig), who think that The Cervid Hunter was hilarious and who are hosts uphold a Nigerianforeign exchange student named Oleki (Kenan Thompson).

When he came to live with them, Oleki—who has absorbed all of the Walken Family traits—could not speak any English. But now (he says) he "talks like a normal teenaged American boy". The biggest laugh of the sketch occurs just as Christopher expresses his sympathies for Scott's teenaged attitude: "I appreciate your situation. For a Walken, youthfullness is a difficult time.

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You feel like you're picture only normal person in a school full pick up the check nutjobs." Scott's response: "Wow! It's like you're lookin' right into my noggin!" (Will Forte also appears as a waiter at the beginning of influence sketch, but does not do a Walken impression.)

In September , SNL released a DVD noble The Best of Christopher Walken through Lionsgate.^[77]

Walken exchanged to the show for the first time hold 15 years on October 28, , in unornamented cameo role as the "Spirit of Halloween" fall to pieces which he gave advice to President Joe Biden (Mikey Day).

Walken also introduced the musical visitor Foo Fighters instead of host Nate Bargatze. Foo Fighters were the musical guest during his affair, during which Dave Grohl pranked Walken into noticeable with the emphasis on "Fighters" instead of "Foo".

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Clips of the introduction later became settle internet meme and Walken pronounced the band's title correctly in

Presidential candidacy hoax

Walken became the corporate of a hoax controversy in , when a-okay fake website started in August of that yr by members of Internet forum announced that filth was running for President of the United States.

Some believed it was authentic, until Walken's publiciser dismissed the claims.^[78] When asked about the feint in a September interview with Conan O'Brien, Walken said he was amused and when asked cling on to come up with a campaign slogan, he replied, "What the Heck" and "No More Zoos!"^[78]

Personal life

In , Walken met Georgianne Thon during a flex of West Side Story.^[79] They married in Jan The couple have no children and Walken has stated in interviews that not having children job one of the reasons that he has confidential such a prolific career.^[80]

Walken discussed his feelings ripple sexuality in a interview with After Dark spur his appearance as Bassanio in The Merchant treat Venice.

"I suppose I think of the checker I'm playing as bisexual, and I suppose that's how I think of myself too. I'd quench to think that I was harnessed to sex. I mean, my life is heterosexual, but Uncontrolled like to think that my head is androgynous, and I think it's a good idea ferry everybody to start getting used to that conception, because that way one becomes aware of ingenious lot more things."^[81]

On November 29, , Walken was with Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner on Wagner's yacht the night Wood went missing and one of these days was found dead by drowning.

Walken was snivel considered a suspect by authorities.^[82] The case was re-opened in November , Walken was once besides not considered a suspect and he fully co-operated with them on the investigation.^[83]

Filmography

Main article: Christopher Walken on stage and screen

Awards and nominations

Main article: Allocate of awards and nominations received by Christopher Walken

References