# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-walker
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:51:35.455Z

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description: "He turned street-racing B-movies into a global franchise, then died at 40 in the passenger seat of a Porsche going too fast—leaving a film half-finished and a song that became the eulogy for a generation."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Paul William Walker IV started as a child actor in the 1980s, moved through soap opera work on The Young and the Restless, and broke through in 1999 with She's All That and Varsity Blues. The Fast and the Furious in 2001 made him Brian O'Conner and an international name, followed by the successful Joy Ride the same year. The mid-2000s brought a string of disappointments—Into the Blue, Running Scared—though Eight Below and Flags of Our Fathers earned him some praise in 2006. He spent years in low-budget action films before Takers landed in 2010. On November 30, 2013, he died as a passenger in a single-vehicle crash in a speeding Porsche Carrera GT. Furious 7 was unfinished; his brothers Cody and Caleb stood in for the remaining scenes, and Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again" was written as his tribute.