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Walken was named after actor Ronald Colman. His parents were Rosalie Russell, a Scottish immigrant from Glasgow, and Paul Wälken, a German immigrant from Gelsenkirchen who owned and operated Walken's Bakery in Astoria. Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943, in Astoria, Queens, New York City. He also wrote and played the lead role in the 1995 play Him, about his idol Elvis Presley. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane (2010). His performance in the original rendition of James Joyce's The Dead (2000), earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination. His most notable roles on the show include record producer Bruce Dickinson in the ' More Cowbell' sketch, the disgraced Confederate officer Colonel Angus, and multiple appearances as an aging, unsuccessful lothario in the Continental sketch.Īs a stage actor, Walken starred with Irene Worth in a 1975 Broadway revival of “Sweet Bird of Youth.” Walken has played the lead in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. He is a popular guest-host of Saturday Night Live, hosting seven times.

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More recently, he has starred in television series The Outlaws (2021-), and Severance (2022-), the latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nomination. On television, Walken has appeared in films such as Who Am I This Time? (1982), and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He has also provided voice work for the animated films Antz (1998) and The Jungle Book (2016). These include The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), At Close Range (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), King of New York (1990), The Comfort of Strangers (1990), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Suicide Kings (1997), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Man on Fire (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), A Late Quartet (2012), the first three Prophecy films, and Percy (2020). Since his breakthrough, Walken has appeared in films in various genres, both in lead and supporting roles. He was nominated for the same award for portraying con artist Frank Abagnale's father in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002). His performance earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Walken has appeared in supporting roles in films such as The Anderson Tapes (1971), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Roseland (1977) and Annie Hall (1977), before coming to wider attention as the troubled Vietnam War veteran Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (1978). His films have grossed more than $1.6 billion in the United States alone. He has earned an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards.

Prolific in film, television, and on stage, Walken is the recipient of numerous accolades. Six other Milwaukee nominees, including Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite of EsterEv and Amy Kerstein, Jason Kerstein, Joe Muench and Dan Sidner of Black Shoe Hospitality did not advance in their respective categories.Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken March 31, 1943) is an American actor. Other states commonly considered part of the Midwest - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio - instead form the foundation’s Great Lakes region. The category covers Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. León was a semifinalist in last year’s awards, also for Best Chef: Midwest.

Prior to that, he operated the Spanish and Portuguese-inspired restaurant as a pop-up starting in 2013. León expanded his talents at restaurants across the globe before opening Amilinda, 315 E. The fine-dining restaurant is led by a partnership of real estate developer Michael DeMicheleand former Bartolotta Restaurants executive chef Adam Siegel, who won a James Beard award for Best Chef: Midwest in 2008. Van Buren St., opened in May, 2022, serving French and Italian-inspired cuisine.