Aliyu wamakko biography of christopher walken

Christopher Walken began working in the theater in his late teens, and by the early s, he had begun working in film. His breakthrough part came with Woody Allen's Annie Hall , and he went on to win an Academy Award for his role in 's The Deer Hunter , cultivating a full body of work in the '80s. 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.

A performer since the age of 3, Walken started out as a dancer, taking lessons as a child. You'd learn ballet, tap, acrobatics, usually, you'd even learn to sing a song," he later explained to Interview magazine. The son of a baker, Walken would often leave his neighborhood in Queens and head to Manhattan with his brothers.

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There they would hang out at Rockefeller Center in Midtown where many of the television shows were shot. Sometimes they landed work as extras to make some pocket money. At the age of 10, he got a chance to work with comedian Jerry Lewis as an extra in a television skit. Walken attended the famed Professional Children's School, geared toward students in the performing arts.

Around the age of 18, he started working in theater, first landing roles in musicals because of his earlier studies. Early in his career, he changed his first name from Ronny to Christopher while performing in a nightclub act. Now I wish I'd picked a shorter name because when I see my name in print, it looks like a freight train," he told The Hollywood Reporter.

After appearing in the chorus in Baker Street in , Walken was asked to try out for a dramatic part. Directed by Michael Cimino, the film followed the impact of the Vietnam War on a group of friends from a small town. Walken's character goes through a brutal transformation during the course of the movie, starting out as a laid-back steelworker and ending as a man tormented by memories of his time in a prisoner-of-war camp.