# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-walken
# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:23:33.919Z

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description: "He turned a hesitation into menace, a line reading into legend. Walken made strangeness magnetic — the voice, the timing, the faint unease behind even his comedic turns — and stayed central across five decades without ever quite fitting in."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Ronald Walken in March 1943, he worked steadily through the 1970s in supporting parts until The Deer Hunter cracked him open: his troubled veteran Nick Chevotarevich won him the Oscar in 1978. What followed was a catalog that defied genre — Bond villain in A View to a Kill, crime king in King of New York, scene-stealer in Pulp Fiction and True Romance, the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow. He earned a second Oscar nomination for Catch Me If You Can in 2002, played Shakespeare on stage (Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus), and turned Saturday Night Live sketches like "More Cowbell" into pop-culture fixtures across seven hosting stints. By the 2020s he was still working, voicing animated features, anchoring the series Severance, appearing in Dune: Part Two — over $1.6 billion in domestic box office behind him and the delivery still unmistakable.