Christopher Lloyd
- Born: 22 Oct, 1938
Possessing a facial and physical plasticity worthy of his sometime cartoon co-stars, renowned character actor Christopher Lloyd has captivated critics and audiences alike with a wide array of quirky, off-beat characters, beginning with his memorable feature debut as a mental hospital inmate in Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). Though he arrived in NYC with acting on his mind at the age of 20, he toiled in obscurity for 15 years before his OBIE and a Drama Desk Award-winning performance in "Kaspar" (1973) opened the door a crack for him. Lloyd finally achieved prominence as the 'Reverend Jim' Ignatowski, the spaced-out ex-hippie cab driver of the classic TV comedy series "Taxi" (1978-83), enriching and deepening a character that was initi...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father :
- mother : took him to see Olivier in "Hamlet" when he was 12, and he remembered being "quite struck by that"
- siblings : has six older; four sisters and two brothers; Lloyd is the youngest
- wife Kay Lloyd: no longer together
- wife Carol Ann Vanek Lloyd: married c. 1988; filed for divorce in July 1991
- wife Jane Walker Wood-Lloyd: married c. 1991
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