Christopher Walken - Milestones

• 2004: Starred opposite Jack Black and Ben Stiller in the comedy "Envy," directed by Barry Levinson
• 2004: Cast in the remake of ''The Stepford Wives,'' Bryan Forbes' 1975 cult classic about upper-crust women being replaced by robots with sunny dispositions
• 2003: Played the comic mafioso Sal Maggio in "Kangaroo Jack"
• 2002: Portrayed Marcus Porcius Cato in the TNT miniseries "Julius Caesar"
• 2002: Played the father of the youngest man to make the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list in "Catch Me If You Can"; received an Oscar nomination for his supporting role
• 2001: Returned to the stage in the Mike Nichols-directed staging of "The Seagull" presented by the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park (June-July)
• 2001: Danced in the popular music video "Weapon of Choice", performed by Fatboy Slim
• 2001: Appeared as a mesmerist in the period drama "Affair of the Necklace"
• 2001: Cast as a loopy policeman named McDuff in "Scotland, PA"; screened at Sundance; released theatrically in USA in 2002
• 2000: Played an ex-con who gets embroiled in a robbery scheme in "The Opportunists"
• 1999: Returned to the NYC stage as co-star of "James Joyce's The Dead", a musical co-starring Blair Brown; received Tony nomination as Actor in a Musical
• 1999: Teamed with Sissy Spacek to play the bomb shelter dwelling parents of Brendan Fraser in "Blast From the Past"; also starring Alicia Silverstone
• 1999: Made third telefilm with Glenn Close, "Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End" (CBS)
• 1998: Voiced the character of Cutter in the animated "Antz"
• 1998: Offered an over-the-top comedic performance as an effete turn-of-the-century drama critic in John Turturro's "Illuminata"
• 1997: Reprised role of Gabriel in the sequel "Prophecy II: Ashtown"
• 1997: Offered a wildly over-the-top cameo as an exterminator in the comedy "Mouse Hunt"
• 1997: First film with Alicia Silverstone, "Excess Baggage"; played a hit man with a sense of humor
• 1996: Starred as the eldest of three brothers in a crime family in Ferrara's "The Funeral"
• 1995: Cast as Gabriel, the evil leader of renegade angels, in "The Prophecy"
• 1995: Debut as playwright with the one-man, Off-Broadway production "Him"; also starred
• 1994: Co-starred in "Pulp Fiction", delivering a memorable monologue about a gold watch
• 1992: Cast as Iago in the NYSF's summer production "Othello"
• 1992: Appeared as the department store owner Max Schreck in "Batman Returns"
• 1990: First of (to date) four films with director Abel Ferrara, "The King of New York",
• 1989: Portrayed real-life author Whitley Streiber who climed to have had encounters with aliens in "Communion"
• 1988: Had title role in NYSF's production of "Coriolanus"
• 1988: Played the nemesis sergeant to a wisecracking new recruit in the film adaptation of Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues"
• 1986: Cast as the father with a criminal past in the downbeat but well-acted "At Close Range", co-starring Sean Penn
• 1986: Played Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
• 1985: Portrayed the villain out to destroy Sillicon Valley in the James Bond adventure "A View to a Kill"
• From 1984 to 1985: Co-starred in David Rabe's play about Hollywood "Hurlyburly"
• 1981: Displayed his dancing abilities to great effect as the oily villain in "Pennies From Heaven"
• 1980: Reteamed with Cimino for "Heaven's Gate", a turgid overlong Western that has variously been applauded as a masterpiece or disdained as an example of Hollywood excess
• 1978: Won Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his memorable turn as a soldier serving in Vietnam in "The Deer Hunter", directed by Michael Cimino
• 1977: Offered memorable cameo as Diane Keaton's brother in "Annie Hall"
• 1977: Danced for the first time in a feature in James Ivory's "Roseland"
• 1975: Portrayed Chance Wayne to Irene Worth's Alexandra del Largo in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth"
• 1975: Starred in the stage play "Kid Champion"
• 1974: Played "Macbeth" at the NYSF's Public Theatre
• 1972: First film in a lead role, "The Happiness Cage"
• 1971: Had first significant feature role in "The Anderson Tapes"
• 1968: Film debut in a bit part in "Me and My Brother"
• 1966: Made first appearance with the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park
• 1965: Changed first name to 'Christopher' after singer Monique Van Vooren asked to introduce him by that name telling him "I see you more as a Christopher."
• 1965: Cast in the chorus of "Baker Street"; first role billed as 'Christopher' Walken
• 1960: Worked for the summer as an assistant lion tamer with the Tarryl Jacobs Circus
• 1959: Broadway debut in "J.B.", billed as Ronnie Walken
• ---: Cast opposite James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon and Kate Winslet in "Romance & Cigarettes" helmed by John Turturro (lensed 2004)
• ---: Will portray a reality TV producer in "Domino" which will star Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey, a model turned bounty hunter (lensed 2004)
• ---: Appeared in the romantic comedy "The Wedding Crashers" (lensed 2004)
• Born and raised in the Astoria section of Queens, New York
• Began career as a catalog model with his brothers
• Occasionally replaced brother Glenn as Mike Bauer on the CBS daytime drama "The Guiding Light", a role Glenn played from 1954 to 1956
• Appeared on live television in the 1950s
• Trained as a dancer