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Christian Slater Profile |
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Birth Date:
August 18, 1969
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Birth Place: New York, NY, USA
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Birth Name: Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins
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Height:
5'8½"
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Biography |
Christian Slater (born Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins on
August 18, 1969 in New York City) is an American actor. His
mother is Hollywood casting director Mary Jo Slater, who
gave her Star Trek-obsessed son a cameo role in Star Trek
VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). His father is the
English actor Michael Hawkins. Christian is an only child.
Slater is a father of two: his son born in 1999 and his
daughter in 2001.
In 2000, he was married to reporter Ryan Haddon.
In 2004, he played Randle P McMurphy in the play One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Edinburgh Fringe. He twice
contracted chicken pox, delaying the show's opening. While
continuing to appear in this play in London's West End,
Slater was asked to play the role of John Watson aka Wonko
the Sane for the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of So Long, and
Thanks For All the Fish, produced by Above the Title
Productions. |
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Other
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Son, with girlfriend Ryan Haddon, Jaden Zach Haddon-Slater,
born [6 April 1999]
Starts three month jail sentence. Released after 59 days for
good behavior. [14 January 1998]
Arrested by Los Angeles police and charged with three counts
of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of battery.
[11 August 1997]
Son of Mary Jo Slater.
Half brother of actor Ryan Slater.
Arrested in West Hollywood, CA. after allegedly leading
sheriff's deputies on a car chase. A police spokeman's says
Slater crashed into a telephone pole, kicked a cop after
getting out of his car, and then tried to escape over a
fence. He was charged with evading police, driving under the
influence, assault with a deadly weapon {his cowboy boots}
and driving with a suspended license. [29 December 1989]
Arrested in 1994 for bringing a gun on a plane.
Son of actor Michael Hawkins.
Is a major Star Trek fan. His unusual eyebrows are the
result of him shaving them when dressing up as Spock for
Halloween; they never grew back in properly.
His godfather was the late soap actor Michael Zaslow.
Sold his house in the Hollywood Hills to Tim Allen.
[December 1999]
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in
film history (#79). [1995]
Won the roles of the Interviewer in Interview with the
Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Eric Draven in
The Crow (1994) after the death of friend and fellow actor
River Phoenix (who had been cast in the first role and
turned down the second). Slater also turned down the lead in
The Crow (1994), leading producers to actor Brandon Lee--who
would become permanently linked with the film and its story
when he was accidentally killed on the set of the film.
Daughter, Eliana Sophia, born. [15 August 2001]
Is a green belt in kempo karate. [August 2003]
Sentenced to three months in jail, and 36 months probation,
for assaulting his girlfriend Michelle Jonas and a police
officer, as well as cocaine abuse. [9 December 1997]
Past girlfriends include Winona Ryder, Christina Applegate &
Patricia Arquette. He has also been engaged to actress-model
Nina Huang.
His mother, Mary Jo Slater was the casting director in 4 of
his feature film appearances: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country (1991); Murder in the First (1995); The Contender
(2000) and Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001).
British stage debut as Randle P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest" in August of 2004, delayed by a bout of
chicken pox.
Received a standing ovation on his first night playing
McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on the London
stage.
Born on the same day as Oscar-nominated actor Edward Norton.
He also shares a birthday with the following celebrities:
Denis Leary, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Patrick Swayze and Robert
Redford.
Attended Dalton School and the Professional Children's
School.
Born and reared in New York.
Made his first theater debut in 'The Music Man' at the age
of 9.
The trousers worn by him in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country (1991) are the same ones worn by William Shatner in
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982). He noticed the name
label still inside them.
Donated all of his paycheck from Interview with the Vampire:
The Vampire Chronicles (1994) to River Phoenix's favorite
charities after the young actor's untimely death at 23.
As a young teenager, he appeared in the musical "Merlin,"
one of the most expensive, notorious flops in Broadway
history. The show had been conceived as a vehicle for Doug
Henning's magic, with Henning playing the eponymous wizard.
Slater played "Young Merlin" and "Arthur;" other stars
included Chita Rivera and Nathan Lane (in what was only his
second Broadway role).
The long-standing rumor about Christian's eyebrows (that he
shaved them off to look like Spock and they never grew back
properly) is actually false. Christian was joking with a
reporter in one of his first interviews, and it was somehow
printed as fact. He actually stated that he regretted
mentioning it, as he still gets asked about the "Halloween
costume gone bad" nearly two decades later. |
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I would like to see him in a new movie.Maybe a movie in Alaska,lol.:)
no, no igloos and we are having a beuitful summer.
TA TA FOR NOW
Angela in the last frontier