Christian Slater (1969 - )
Christian Slater was born on August 18, 1969 in New York, New York.
Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins is Christian Slater's birth name his nickname is Slates.
Having very few uncredited roles to date Christian Slater played a Security Guard in AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY in 1997, then in 1999 he was in the movie LOVE STINKS, and back in 1992 Slater played a social worker in WHERE THE DAY TAKES YOU.
In the 1991 hit movie STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, Christian Slater wore that same pants that William Shatner wore in STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN in 1982. This came to Christian Slater's attention when he checked the label and saw William Shatners name.
Mary Jo Slater is Christian Slater's, mom she is a famed casting director for movies like SPAWN, THE ARRANGEMENT and ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE. His father is Michael Hawkins, he was in THE HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES and THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE.
Four of the movies to date that Christian Slater has auditioned for and was given the part, were movies that his mom, Mary Jo Slater was the casting director for. The movies were STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, MURDER IN THE FIRST, THE CONTENDER and WHO IS CLETIS TOUT?.
In 1989 Christian Slater entered the world of HEATHERS, this was a popular movie where Slater's character decides to show Winona Ryder how the in-crowd really is with their social politics.
Christian Slater donated his paycheck from the 1994 hit INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES to one of River Phoenix's favorite charities. River Phoenix died at the age of 23, he was also an actor.
Christian Slater's other notable credits include...
LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2008)
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (2007)
HE WAS A QUIET MAN (2007)
SLIPSTREAM (2007)
BOBBY (2006)
THE DEAL (2005)
THE GOOD SHEPHERD (2004)
WHITE LIES (1999)
BROKEN ARROW (1996)
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES (1994)
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991)
ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (1991)
YOUNG GUNS II (1990)
THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN (1985)
