Christopher Walken

1943 – 20??

Christopher Walken is an American actor whose six-decade career has produced more than 100 film and television appearances and earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter (1978). His distinctive cadence and command of menacing, eccentric, or comic characters have anchored films including Annie Hall, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, Pulp Fiction, Catch Me If You Can, and Hairspray. A trained dancer who incorporated movement into many of his roles, he won an MTV Video Music Award for his Fatboy Slim "Weapon of Choice" performance.

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