Christian Slater Biography

Who Is Christian Slater? Christian Slater born Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an American actor, voice actor, and producer. He made his film debut with a leading role in The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) and gained wider recognition for his breakthrough role as Jason “J.D.” Dean, a sociopathic high school student, in the satire Heathers (1988).

He has received critical acclaim for his title role in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–present), for which he earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2016, with additional nominations in 2017 and 2018.

Born in New York City to a father who was an actor and his mother, a casting agent, Slater made his first television debut on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live when he was 8 years old. He attended the Dalton School, the Professional Children’s School and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

In the 1990s, Slater starred in a number of big budget films, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Interview with the Vampire (1994), FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Broken Arrow (1996), and Hard Rain (1998) as well as cult films like Pump Up the Volume (1990) and True Romance (1992).

Since 2000, Slater has combined work in film and television including roles in Bobby (2006), Breaking In (2011), and The Public (2018). He has also done voice work and theatrical roles during the same time period.

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How Old Is Christian Slater? The American actor was born on 18 August 1969 in New York City, New York, United States. He is 49 years old.

Christian Slater Height

 How Tall Is Christian Slater? He is 1.74 meters tall.

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Slater was born in New York City, the son of Michael Hawkins (born Thomas Knight Slater), an actor is also known as Michael Gainsborough, and Mary Jo Slater, an acting agent turned casting executive and producer. Slater has a maternal half-brother, Ryan Slater, who is also an actor.

His great-uncle was a radio personality, Bill Slater. He attended the Dalton School, the Professional Children’s School and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

Christian Slater Family

Christian is the son of Michael Hawkins, his father and Mary Jo Slater, his mother. He is also a brother to Ryan Slater and Hellen Slater. He has been married twice to Ryan Haddon and Brittany Lopez. While still married to Ryan, they had two children. Later they got divorced and he married Lopez.

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His brother is called Ryan Slater.

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He is the brother to Hellen Slater.

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In 2000, Slater married Ryan Haddon, the daughter of 1970s model Dayle Haddon. They have two children, Jaden Christopher (born 1999) and Eliana Sophia (born 2001). In 2003, Haddon was arrested for assaulting Slater at a Hard Rock Cafe while on a trip to Las Vegas.

Haddon allegedly threw a glass and gashed Slater’s neck open for which he required 20 stitches. Haddon was charged with domestic battery, booked at Las Vegas’ Clark County Detention Center, and freed after posting a bond. They announced a separation over Christmas 2004 while Slater was performing in a stage version of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in London’s West End.

They officially separated in 2005 and divorced in 2007. On December 2, 2013, Slater married his girlfriend Brittany Lopez in Florida after three years of dating. Slater is a practitioner in Kempo Karate.

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He is a father of two children, that is, Jaden Christopher who was born in 1999 and Eliana Sophia who was born in 2001.

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Since 2000 Slater has mixed TV work with leading roles in mainly lower budget films along with supporting roles in a few mainstream productions, appearing in the successful The West Wing and Alias TV productions, but also being part of Hollywood films, including Bobby and 3000 Miles to Graceland.

He has also worked as a voice-over artist in productions, including the character of ‘Pips’ in the successful Australian animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and TV documentaries, including Prehistoric Planet and Dinosaur Planet.

Slater also voiced the character John Watson a.k.a. “Wonko the Sane” in BBC Radio 4’s production of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Slater starred in the television series My Own Worst Enemy in 2008 and The Forgotten in 2009. In 2011 he co-starred in the action film The River Murders, with Ray Liotta and Ving Rhames.

Also in 2011, he starred in the television series, Breaking In, which lasted for two seasons. Slater co-starred in another film with Ving Rhames, Soldiers of Fortune (2012), and in the Sylvester Stallone action thriller Bullet to the Head (2013), directed by Walter Hill.

He co-starred in the 2014 television series, Mind Games, which was canceled after only five episodes were aired and was part of the ensemble in Lars von Trier’s controversial Nymphomaniac. In 2015, he signed on for his title role in the television series on USA Network called Mr. Robot.

Slater plays a computer hacker, “Mr. Robot,” who recruits Rami Malek’s character, Elliot, into Slater’s band of hackers called society. The series premiered on June 24, 2015, and will conclude with its fourth season in 2019. For his performance, he earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2016, with additional nominations in 2017 and 2018.

Prior to beginning his role in Mr.Robot, in 2013 Slater announced he was developing and making a film based on Will Viharo’s 1993 neo-noir novel Love Stories Are Too Violent for Me, the first of three works to feature Vic Valentine. However, the success of Mr. Robot has delayed development of his adaptation.

Slater also appeared in The West Wing and Alias and starred in Breaking In and Mind Games. Slater voices the character “Slater” on the FX original series Archer. He also provided the voice of Ushari the Egyptian Cobra in The Lion Guard the mid-sequel of The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride.

He also made a short film for HP called The Wolf which shows how easy malware can spread on unprotected printers and computers. In 2018, Christian Slater appeared in the latest film by Emilio Estevez, The Public. At the world premiere of the film at the Toronto Film Festival, Christian Slater told Ikon London Magazine about his character: “He (Josh Davis) is definitely the character in the movie who represents that side of politics where he is not as open-hearted as you’d like him to be. He is definitely the guy who feels this is all a mess. And he is a law and order politician in this movie. So hopefully, he is the kind of guy you love to hate”.

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Christian Slater Mr. Robot

Young, anti-social computer programmer Elliot works as a cybersecurity engineer during the day, but at night he is a vigilante hacker. He is recruited by the mysterious leader of an underground group of hackers to join their organization. Elliot’s task? Help bring down corporate America, including the company he is paid to protect, which presents him with a moral dilemma. Although he works for a corporation, his personal beliefs make it hard to resist the urge to take down the heads of multinational companies that he believes are running — and ruining — the world.

Network: USA Network
No. of episodes: 32 (list of episodes)
Production location: New York City
Awards: Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama,

Christian Slater Heathers

Veronica (Winona Ryder) is part of the most popular clique at her high school, but she disapproves of the other girls’ cruel behavior. When Veronica and her new boyfriend, J.D. (Christian Slater), confront clique leader Heather Chandler (Kim Walker) and accidentally poison her, they make it appear a suicide. Soon Veronica realizes that J.D. is intentionally killing students he does not like. She races to stop J.D. while also clashing with the clique’s new leader, Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty).

Initial release: 31 March 1989 (USA)
Director: Michael Lehmann
Featured song: Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Screenplay: Daniel Waters
Music composed by David Newman

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He is acting on new acts as he keeps his career running.

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His latest movies include:

1. Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
2. The Public
3. The Wife
4. The Summit
5. Hatfields & McCoys: Bad Blood

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Slater’s first television role was on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live when he was 8 years old. Following a run on Ryan’s Hope, he made his Broadway debut as the lisping Winthrop Paroo opposite Dick Van Dyke in the 1980 revival of The Music Man. Additional Broadway credits include Copperfield, Merlin, Macbeth, Side Man, and The Glass Menagerie. In addition, he has performed in London’s West End in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Swimming With Sharks.

Slater made his big screen debut in 1985’s The Legend of Billie Jean playing Billie Jean’s brother Binx. Though expected to be a big hit, the film fell short at the box office, despite gaining a cult following. His career improved with his role in The Name of the Rose (1986) alongside Sean Connery. Slater played Connery’s apprentice monk while they investigated a series of murders at a Benedictine abbey. Slater followed this by playing Junior Tucker in Francis Ford Coppola’s Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Gleaming the Cube (1989) and Beyond the Stars (1989).

Slater’s career rose to new heights when he played the dark character J.D. in the 1989 film Heathers alongside Winona Ryder. Heathers was billed as the teen film of 1989, which had turned into a hit musical in 2014. Slater beat out many other actors such as Brad Pitt for the part and his performance drew comparison with a young Jack Nicholson. After Heathers, Slater had offers to play more troubled youths, including as a rebellious teen in Pump Up the Volume (1990) and a wild gunman in Young Guns II (1990), in which Slater acted alongside Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland.

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Best Christian Slater Movies

The following are his best movies:

• Very Bad Things (1998)
• Heathers (1988)
• He Was a Quiet Man (2007)
• True Romance (1993)
• Untamed Heart (1993)
• Gleaming the Cube (1989)
• Pump Up the Volume (1990)
• Kuffs (1992)
• Love Lies Bleeding (2008 Video)
• Hard Rain (1998)
• Mobsters (1991)
• Sacrifice (I) (2011)
• Lies & Illusions (2009)
• Dolan’s Cadillac (2009)
• 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
• Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012)
• Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)
• Soldiers of Fortune (2012)
• Hard Cash (2002)
• Broken Arrow (1996)
• Pursued (2004)
• Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
• Freaky Deaky (2012)
• The Adderall Diaries (2015)
• Bullet to the Head (2012)
• The River Murders (2011)
• El Gringo (2012)
• Julian Po (1997)
• Stranded (V) (2013)
• The Power of Few (2013)
• Playback (II) (2012)
• Alone in the Dark (2005)
• Assassins Run (2013)

Christian Slater Archer

Big- and small-screen star Christian Slater recently tuned up his resumé with a role on one of TV’s hottest animated series, “Archer.” And he’s found plenty to love about the gig.

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Christian Slater Gay

Christian is not gay as he has a wife and two children. He plays a gay role in the movie King Cobra.

Christian Slater Star Trek

Capt. James Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the USS Enterprise are carrying Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner) to Earth to negotiate a peace treaty with the United Federation of Planets. The ship appears to fire on a Klingon vessel, and Gorkon is killed in the subsequent confusion. Kirk and the ship’s doctor, Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), are arrested for murder, leaving Spock (Leonard Nimoy) to figure out who is behind the attack and save the negotiations.

Initial release: 6 December 1991 (USA)
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Music composed by Cliff Eidelman
Budget: 30 million USD
Screenplay: Leonard Nimoy, Gene Roddenberry, Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn, Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner

Christian Slater Radio Movie

In Arizona, an introverted and insightful teenager, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater), finds an outlet for his viewpoints through a shortwave radio. Broadcasting as “Hard Harry,” Hunter uses his pirate radio show to rant against the injustices and hypocrisies taking place in the area, and in society in general. Hunter conceals his off-air identity, but a determined student (Samantha Mathis) discovers the truth, while Principal Creswood (Annie Ross) seeks to shut down Hunter once and for all.

Initial release: 22 December 1990 (South Korea)
Director: Allan Moyle
Box office: 11.54 million USD (USA)
Screenplay: Allan Moyle
Music composed by Cliff Martinez

Christian Slater Interview With A Vampire

Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis (Brad Pitt) is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer (Christian Slater). Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat (Tom Cruise), a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl (Kirsten Dunst) — whose addition to the “family” breeds even more conflict.

Initial release: 9 November 1994 (Westwood)
Director: Neil Jordan
Film series: The Vampire Chronicles
Featured song: Sympathy for the Devil
Awards: MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance

Christian Slater Kuffs

Down on his luck, George Kuffs (Christian Slater) is a broke young man with a pregnant girlfriend (Milla Jovovich). Desperate for money, he travels to San Francisco to visit his older brother, Brad (Bruce Boxleitner), to ask for a loan. Their reunion is short-lived, however, since Brad, who operates an auxiliary police unit, is murdered. Intent on bringing his sibling’s killer to justice and continuing his patrol, George uncovers a network of corruption and sets out to expose those involved.

Initial release: 22 February 1992 (South Korea)
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Producer: Raynold Gideon
Initial DVD release: 12 August 2003
Music composed by Harold Faltermeyer

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He has an estimated net worth of $30 million dollars.

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Christian Slater Interview: The Wife

Prolific actor Christian Slater joins legendary actors Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce in The Wife. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer, directed by Björn Runge, with a screenplay by Jane Anderson. It tells the story of Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) reflecting on her life during a trip to Stockholm. Her husband, Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce), is going to receive a Noble Prize in Literature and the couple is traveling to Stockholm for the presentation. Christian Slater plays Nathaniel Bone, who looking into the truth of Joe Castleman’s career. Slater also talked his show Mr. Robot and its connection to current events.

Screen Rant: Amazing job on this film. I want you to talk to me a little bit about Nathaniel Bone. His mission to get to the truth.

Christian Slater: This was a character I certainly love playing. He was a hilarious, persistent, driven guy. And I think he’s a guy that was a great admirer of Joseph and as a writer probably wanted to emulate him to a large degree. And as he started to do research into his background, he stumbled across some secrets. Nathaniel Bone, he’s like a dog with a bone. He doesn’t want to let it go and he wants to pursue it relentlessly. And that’s what he does.

Screen Rant: I thought this film was amazing. All the movement seemed organic. Every, just everything seemed almost slightly perfect. Now talk to me a little bit about when you first got this script and you read through it. What were your first initial reactions?

Christian Slater: I thought it was beautiful. I thought it was really– But every time you get involved in something, you don’t know how people are going to respond to it. So, you just have to do it. And it’s a leap of faith. Of course, it makes it a little bit easier when it’s people like Jonathan Pryce and Glenn Close. But, I was excited about the character. I was excited about the scene I was going to get to have with Glenn. Excited slash nervous because I’ve always been such a huge admirer of hers. But after getting to know her and being out in Glasgow together, this ended up becoming much more of a family type experience. And we were, shooting this over Thanksgiving. So, we all got to have Thanksgiving together.

Screen Rant: You guys brought an American Thanksgiving out to Scotland.

Christian Slater: Yes, we did. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we did. It was really, really fun.

Screen Rant: Now, this film touches on the complexities of marriage along with sexism in the workplace. What do you want audiences to take away from this?

Christian Slater: All those elements. What’s really been interesting is people taking away their own opinions about the movie. It’s what I’ve been hearing, is that they’re starting to think about their own relationships. And they’re sort of putting themselves up on the screen. Which is very fascinating. I even ended up doing it. I was watching it last night, and honestly, I can say I was riveted. I couldn’t move from my seat. I could hear a pin drop in the theater. I don’t think I took a breath the whole time I was watching the movie. And Glenn’s performance was just extraordinary. It is truly a masterclass in acting and subtlety and a saying everything without saying anything. I just thought it was really, really remarkable.

Screen Rant: Right. Now, this movie takes place in two different time periods. But it’s also completely relevant to today. Can you talk to me about that a little bit?

Christian Slater: There’s no question that there is extraordinary relevance. This relationship, being the woman behind the man nonsense, is certainly an issue that is greatly addressed in this movie. I think it was, Glenn always says it was very difficult to find an actor to be in a movie called The Wife. Because most men want it to be The Husband.

Screen Rant: Took 14 years to make.

Christian Slater: Yes, it took an extraordinarily long time. But fortunately, a man like Jonathan Pryce came along. And he was willing to play this role. And did such a phenomenal, fantastic job. And really between Glenn and Jonathan made the movie possible to happen. But even with that, it still took time. And, so yeah, that’s the world that we live in. But I’m glad that the issues that this movie addresses are becoming more prevalent. And people’s levels of awareness are being raised and it’s time.

Screen Rant: Now, speaking of relevant. One of the shows that I just fell in love with Mr. Robot. It has me doing all these little viral things on my computer trying to figure things out. It’s crazy. So, what can we expect from the final season and can you talk to me about the relevancy of that show?

Christian Slater: Oh boy. The relevancy of Mr. Robot has been extraordinary. It seems only to be more relevant as time has gone on. When we first started the show, the main hack we were talking about was North Korea. Now we’re having meetings with North Korea and, oh, he’s a great guy. We’re just living in a very bizarre, complicated, confusing times. And it’s quite scary. I mean, honestly, I am scared. I’d never been more scared than I am right now as to what’s going on.

Screen Rant: You and I both and I think you’re so really highlight some of the issues that we’re not privy to really.

Christian Slater: That’s right. That’s the great thing about entertainment. I mean, that’s the thing about what it is that we do. I don’t think a lot of politicians particularly quite understand that’s maybe why they fight against supporting the arts. But without the arts, you don’t have a society. So, I think it’s vital that they have their levels of awareness raised too.

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Christian Slater thinks Mr. Robot will be powering down pretty soon.

Mr. Robot has been a landmark show at the USA, a network once associated largely with Wings reruns and Duckman, and which can now boast at least one of the better regarded TV dramas of the last few years. But that era might soon be coming to an end, at least according to star Christian Slater. According to The Wrap, Slater—who’s enjoyed his own little TV renaissance as the title character, the anarchic foil to Rami Malek’s semi-heroic hacker Elliot—has said that he thinks the show’s upcoming fourth season will be its last.

“Yeah, Season 4, and I believe that will be the last season,” Slater recently said in an interview with Collider. “Sam [Esmail] always said it was going to be somewhere in that zone, and he didn’t want to go further than what he could creatively contribute to that storyline.” Honestly, that seems kind of fitting; the last season of the show ended with Elliot and Robot coming to some kind of detente at last and seemed to be moving all of the show’s players into position for their final big moves. At least we have a sense that Esmail—who created the series—knows what his end goal is, regardless of how much the USA might hope he’d continue.

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