Christopher
Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American
film and theatre actor. Walken is a prolific actor who has spent
more than 50 years on stage and screen. He has appeared in over
100 movie and television roles, including The Deer Hunter, The
Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York,
Batman Returns, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Funeral and Catch
Me If You Can, and in TV's Kojak and The Naked City. In the United
States, films featuring Walken have grossed over $1.8 billion. In
1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for
The Deer Hunter, where he played a disturbed Vietnam veteran
alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for
Catch Me if You Can. He won the Clarence Derwent Award for his
performance in The Lion in Winter in 1966 and an Obie for his 1975
performance in Kid Champion. He has played the main role in the
Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and
Coriolanus. Walken debuted as a film director and script writer
with the short five-minute film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also
wrote and acted the main role in a play about Elvis Presley titled
Him in 1995. On Feb. 15, 2008, he accepted Harvard's award as
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