Leonid brezhnev biography of christopher walken

(1943-)

Who Is Christopher Walken?

Christopher Walken began working in the theater in his late teens, and by the early 1970s, he had begun working in film.

His breakthrough part came with Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), and he went on to win an Academy Award for his role in 1978's The Deer Hunter, cultivating a full body of work in the '80s.

Actor Christopher Walken just painted over original Banksy artwork 'by accident'!

Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Tcheky Karyo grew up in Paris.

Brezhnev presided over the Soviet Union from until his death in Though he and Reagan never met, he wrote some 30 letters to the U.S.

The Ukrainian-born Bondarchuk, an acclaimed actor who was only making his second feature as a director, was not a member of the Communist party.

Currently being touted as the most promising young director in Hollywood (and with an appearance in the September '92 issue of Esquire to prove.

In 1991, he gained his first Emmy Award nomination for his work on Sarah, Plain and Tall. Walken has taken on a variety of projects that include everything from the Steven Spielberg drama Catch Me If You Can (for which he earned another Oscar nomination) to the music video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice."

Early Life

Walken was born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943, in Queens, New York.

A performer since the age of 3, Walken started out as a dancer, taking lessons as a child. "It was very typical for people — and I mean working-class people — to send their kids to dancing school. You'd learn