Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968)[3] is an American actor. He has frequently worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom he has shared writing and acting credits on the films Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)—the latter received a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011) as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender, a role which received a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2014, he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice and Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way.
Owen Wilson
- Actor
- producer
- screenwriter
1994–present
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- Laura Wilson (mother)
- Robert Wilson (father)
- Andrew Wilson (brother)
- Luke Wilson (brother)
Wilson is also known as part of the Frat Pack since the 1990s, with whom he has starred in comedic films Shanghai Noon (2000), Zoolander (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), How Do You Know (2010), The Big Year (2011), and The Internship (2013). He is also known for the family films Marley and Me (2008), and the Night at the Museum film series (2006–2014). He voices Lightning McQueen in the Cars media franchise (2006–present), and voiced the titular character in Marmaduke (2010) and Reggie in Free Birds (2013). He stars as Mobius M. Mobius in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki (2021–present) on Disney+.[4]
Wilson's accolades include an Oscar and BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay (for The Royal Tenenbaums), a Golden Globe and two SAG acting nominations (for Midnight in Paris and The Grand Budapest Hotel) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Inherent Vice).
Early life
Wilson was born in Dallas, the middle child of three sons of photographer Laura Cunningham Wilson (born 1939) and Robert Andrew Wilson (1941–2017), an advertising executive and operator of a public television station. His brothers Andrew and Luke are also actors. Wilson's parents are of Irish descent.[5] After getting expelled for cheating in geometry, he attended New Mexico Military Institute. He later attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, but did not graduate.[6][7] While in college, he met and was roommates with director and frequent collaborator Wes Anderson.[7]
Personal life
In August 2007, Wilson attempted suicide and was subsequently treated for depression at St. John's Health Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.[39][40] A few days after his hospitalization, Wilson withdrew from his role in Tropic Thunder.[41][42] The incident resulted in much unwanted publicity for Wilson, and he became wary of doing interviews.[43][44] In a 2021 interview with Esquire, Wilson briefly opened up about his suicide attempt, describing how his brothers supported him during his recovery.[45]
In January 2011, Wilson and his then-girlfriend Jade Duell had a son.[46][47] Wilson and Duell ended their relationship later that year. In January 2014, he had a son with Caroline Lindqvist.[48][49][50] He had a third child, a daughter, in October 2018 with ex-girlfriend Varunie Vongsvirates.[51]