Christopher Walken

American actor (born 1943)

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83
Born 1943
Known for
Pulp Fiction
1994

Summary

Updated 2026-08-27

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.

Biography

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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-cul…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken

said2014

I’m Christopher Walken here!

— (The mean streets of New Jersey, 2014)

Christopher Walken

said20 Jul 2007

I have the easiest job in Hollywood, because I get paid to be me. What's the role? A milkman? 'Hey, I'm a milkman. Here's your milk.' 'Cut. Print.

— The Henry Rollins Show (July 20, 2007), Season 2, Episode 15.

Christopher Walken

said20 Jul 2007

I play a lot of those parts, and it's a chicken-and-egg thing. I don't know whether you get scary because you play those parts or did you get those parts because you were scary?

— The Toronto Star staff (July 20, 2007) "How Walken makes us laugh in fear", The Toronto Star, p. E01.

Christopher Walken

said29 Oct 2004

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

— Hap Erstein (October 29, 2004) "Walken Doesn't Mind Playing Creepy Type - As Long As He's Cast", The Palm Beach Post, p. 9.

Christopher Walken

said24 Oct 2004