Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American movie star who was born on November 18th, 1968 in Dallas in the United States of America.
He was born to Robert Andrew Wilson and Laura Cunningham Wilson who are both of Irish descent and had well-paying careers.
Wilson shares the same parents with his two brothers; Luke Wilsons and Andrew Wilson who are also into the movie business.
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Among other schools, he attended the New Mexico Military Institute. Later, he enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin, where he attempted to earn a Bachelor of Arts in English but failed to do so.
He met director and regular collaborator Wes Anderson while they were both in college and shared a room with him.
Owen Wilson net worth
Wilson has a net worth estimated to be about $70 million.
Owen Wilson age
Wilson was born in 1968, hence he is currently 54 years of age.
Owen Wilson education
Wilson attended New Mexico Military Institute, amongst other schools. He later attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, but did not graduate.
Owen Wilson career and movies
Wilson and Wes Anderson co-wrote the scripts for Anderson’s following two directorial efforts, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, which earned them nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Wilson made his film debut in 1996 with Bottle Rocket. Although Wilson did not play a character in Rushmore, the movie does contain a quick shot of him.
The Cable Guy, which was directed by Ben Stiller, a former fan of Bottle Rocket, then offered Wilson a part. After playing supporting roles in action movies like Anaconda and Armageddon and the horror movie The Haunting, Wilson took on two dramatic roles: the lead (as a serial killer) in The Minus Man, which also starred his future girlfriend, singer Sheryl Crow, and a supporting role in Permanent Midnight, which starred Ben Stiller as a drug-addicted TV writer.
Jackie Chan and Wilson both starred in the 2000 comedy-action movie Shanghai Noon. The movie made close to $100 million globally. After appearing in the 2001 movie Zoolander with Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell, his notoriety grew even further.
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In 2002, Wilson made a comeback to the buddy comedy genre with the action comedy I Spy, which also starred Eddie Murphy. The television series with the same name that was adapted for the big screen failed poorly at the movie office. He appeared in the 2003 Girl Skateboards video Yeah Right! as a cameo.
He later collaborated with Chan again on Shanghai Knights (2003) and featured alongside Chan in the motion picture adaptation of the 1970s television series Starsky & Hutch (2004).
In the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, which brought in over $200 million in revenue in the US alone, Wilson teamed up with Vince Vaughn. Additionally in 2005, Owen worked with his brothers on the Luke and Andrew-directed film The Wendell Baker Story.
Wilson has starred with Ben Stiller in twelve films, including The Cable Guy (1996), Permanent Midnight (1998), Meet the Parents (2000), Zoolander (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Meet the Fockers (2004), Night at the Museum (2006), and the sequels Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Little Fockers (2010), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) and Zoolander 2 (2016).
Wilson made an appearance in another Wes Anderson movie, The Darjeeling Limited, which debuted on September 30, 2007, and shown at the 45th New York Film Festival as well as the Venice Film Festival. Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman also appear in it.
In Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, he lent his voice to the character of Whackbat Coach Skip. He played the lead role in the movie The Big Year, which was based on the book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik. The movie, which also stars Jack Black, JoBeth Williams, Steve Martin, and Rashida Jones, was rele ased in October 2011 by 20th Century Fox.
Wilson played a writer who was overcome with nostalgia in Woody Allen’s romantic comedy Midnight in Paris, which was written and filmed in 2011. The movie received positive reviews after its screening at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Wilson was honored with a Golden Globe for his performance.
In Cars 2, Wilson made a comeback as McQueen’s voice. Wilson signed on to play the father of an American family that relocates to Southeast Asia only to become enmeshed in a wave of rebel violence that is sweeping the city in the John Erick Dowdle thriller The Coup, eventually retitled “No Escape,” in March 2012.
Wilson made appearances in both Paul Thomas Anderson’s film adaptation of Inherent Vice and Wes Anderson’s critically acclaimed ensemble comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014. He appeared in two films in 2015: She’s Funny That Way, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and No Escape, an action thriller starring Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan.
Wilson co-starred with Salma Hayek in the comedy Bliss for Amazon Studios in 2021, which was directed by Mike Cahill. Wilson and Wes Anderson collaborated once more in 2021 for the Cannes Film Festival debut of The French Dispatch. [30] and the Universal Pictures film Marry Me, which stars Jennifer Lopez.
As Mobius M. Mobius, Wilson presently co-stars with Tom Hiddleston in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki on Disney+. Additionally, he agreed to play the lead role in a fresh The Haunted Mansion movie.
Owen Wilson parents
Wilson’s parents are Robert Andrew Wilson and Laura Cunningham Wilson.
Owen Wilson siblings
Wilson has two brothers; Luke and Andrew Wilson.
Owen Wilson wife
Wilson has never been married in his life but has been in numerous relationships.
Owen Wilson children
Wilson has three children; Lyla Aranya Wilson, Robert Ford Wilson and Finn Lindqvist Wilson.
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