Celebrity Biographies
christian slater
From a young age he already knew that he wanted to dedicate himself to acting and he did everything in his power to achieve it. Christian Slater had his golden age in the 90s and, although little by little his star faded, he still maintains a commendable work rate.
Christian Slater was born on August 18, 1969, in New York City. His father, Michael Hawkins, was a well-known American soap opera actor, and his mother, Mary Jo Slater, a casting agent. He studied at the Dalton School and at the Institute of Fine Arts. It is clear that he became interested in show business very soon, since at only eight years old he made his debut in the musical “The Music Man”, along with Dick van Dyke, and six years later he was already touring the most important stages of Broadway. .
His behind-the-scenes debut was in 1968, with the American soap opera One Life to Live , and his first appearance on the big screen took place at the age of 15, in the secondary role of Binx Davey, in the film The Legend of Billie Jean (1985). However, fame came to him a year later with the thriller The Name of the Rose (1986), thanks to the role of Adso de Melk, a young novice who accompanies William of Baskerville ( Sean Connery ) in a murder investigation inside a monastery.
Immediately afterwards, Christian Slater moved to Los Angeles to improve his career as an actor. After his role in School for Young Killers (1988), where he shared the screen with Winona Ryder, he earned the nickname “Hollywood bad boy.” The reason? Many problems with the law and several arrests.
But thanks to her mother’s job as a casting agent, Slater had no shortage of movies in which to act. Thus we could see him in: Start Trek VI – That unknown country (1991), the drama Murder in the first degree (1995), Candidate for power (2000) and the comedy Who is Cletis-T? (2001).
Among the most outstanding films of his filmography, and those that have allowed him to be a recognized face in Hollywood, we can mainly mention three : Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (1991), an adventure film directed by Kevin Reynolds , where he played Will Scarlet; Point-blank love (1993), with the leading role of Clarence Worley, where we can also see Brad Pitt and Anna Thomson; and Interview with the Vampire (1994), directed by Neil Jordan and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Slater donated all the money he raised from this film to the actor’s favorite charity, River Phoenix , after his death at age 23.
During the following years Slater continued to act in films without much success ( Dirty Money , Mindhunters , Alone the Dark ), until 2006, where he participated in the filming of the notable Bobby , with the role of Daryl; It is an ensemble drama set at the time when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. He shares credits with Anthony Hopkins, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Moore, and Sharon Stone, among many others.
Years later, thanks to the successful television series Mr. Robot (2015), Slater won his first Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. His character is Mr. Robot, a leader of a group of hackers who wants to destroy the businessmen and multinationals that are running the world. But Slater is not just an actor, he has produced and co-produced the films Hard Rain (1998), Basil (1998), Very Bad Things (2002) and The Deal (2005), and also the first episode of the television series Breaking In ( 2011), in which he has also been a director.
Regarding his personal life, Christian Slater has had relationships with stars such as Winona Ryder , Christina Applegate and Samantha Mathis , among others. In the year 2000 he married the television producer Ryan Haddon. They had two children, but their union broke up five years later. In 2014 he married Brittany Lopez.
Currently, he is still in the lead with several projects, including the television series Milo Murphy’s Law (2016) and the film King Cobra (2016).