Celebrity Biographies
Paul Walker
By one of those dark moves of fate, Paul Walker, a motor enthusiast who became a celebrity as the protagonist of “Full Throttle” has died in a car accident. The tragedy occurred when a vehicle driven by a friend of his collided in Valencia (California). The causes are unknown at the moment. “We regret to confirm that Paul died in a tragic car accident during a charity event for his organization Reach Out Worldwide,” his publicists said from the official page of the interpreter on the social network Facebook. “He was the passenger in a friend’s car, in which they both lost their lives,” they added.
He was the typical example of a handsome and attractive Hollywood boy. But it was also true that you don’t always get everything from one day to the next in the movie mecca.
Paul Walker was an athletic, blond, blue-eyed man. He fit the parameters of cinematographic handsome, but this fact also shows that this is not enough when it comes to gaining a foothold in Hollywood. Walker had been working since he was little in acting. It was then that he began the path that, little by little, led him to be someone on the screen.
Walker was born on September 12, 1973 in Glendale, California. When he was little he did television commercials, perhaps influenced by his mother, who was a model. At the age of 12, he participated in the series Highway to Heaven , starring Michael Landon . A year later, Paul Walker became a series regular on Throb , a comedy about a record company. His first film was A Monster in the Closet (1987), a parody of the horror genre where he appeared as a secondary. That same year he switched genres and ventured into Retaliator, Programmed to Kill , a sci-fi action film. Next, the young Walker focused more on television and participated in series such asI’m Telling or Who’s the boss? . The blond boy never walked away from his work as an actor, which did not prevent him from graduating in Marine Biology.
In 1994 he starred with Denise Richards in Tammy and the T-Rex , although he did not get many minutes. And it is that her character was not physically present throughout the film because her brain was transplanted into a dinosaur. This tape opened the ban on comedies aimed at a young audience. He co -starred in What a Crazy Couple (1998), was a supporting role in Pleasantville (1998), in which he coincided with Tobey Maguire , Reese Witherspoon and William H. Macy , and also a supporting role in the typical American high school comedy, Someone Like You (1999 ).
The sports drama Game of Champions (1999) helped him work with Jon Voight and to meet the extra Bliss Ellis, who became his girlfriend. The relationship broke up, but as a result they had a daughter who was 15 years old at the time of the actor’s death. In the youth film line, Walker co-starred in The Skulls (2000), a thriller about college sororities, and a road scare, Never Talk to Strangers (2001). Rob Cohen , director of The Skulls , decided to count on him to star alongside Vin Diesel Full throttle(2001). A huge box office success, it was a good showcase for Diesel and Walker, who played a police officer infiltrated in the world of street car racing.
One of Walker’s great passions was surfing, and the other was cars. So he doesn’t miss his participation in Full Throttle 2 (2003), this time under the direction of John Singleton . This film became the first title that he starred in absolutely. Even so, Walker did not join the third installment of the saga, although he continued to be linked to adolescent audiences thanks to titles such as the fantastic Timeline (2003), adaptation of a novel by Michael Crichton , where he worked under the orders of Richard Donner , Immersion lethal (2005), about underwater treasure hunters, or Bajo cero (2006), about doggy adventures in the snow.
These titles have alternated with films such as the drama Noel (2004), directed by Chazz Palminteri , where Walker was the boyfriend of Penélope Cruz ; and with the thriller The proof of the crime (2006), in which he shared the bill with Palminteri and plays a small-time thug who is tasked with getting rid of a revolver. Bad luck guides the protagonist’s performance, something that seems not to have happened with Walker, who shortly after participated in Flags of Our Fathers (2006), a war drama about the battle of Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg .
He debuted as a producer with Bottom’s Up (2006). At the time of his death, he was filming the seventh installment of Full Throttle .
This confessed admirer of Jacques Cousteau was not impressed by Hollywood. He stayed away from the gossip and stated that “being an actor is my job, not my life.” Perhaps this is why he didn’t like to see himself on the screen, so he only watched his movies once.