Owen Wilson
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Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011) as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2014 he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, and Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way. Wilson is also known for his career as an onscreen comedian and member of the Frat Pack including starring in such comedies as Zoolander (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), How Do You Know (2010), The Big Year (2011), and The Internship (2013). He is also known for the family films Marley and Me (2008), and the Night at the Museum film series (2005–2014). He voices Lightning McQueen in the Cars film series (2006–present), Coach Skip in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), the title character in Marmaduke (2010) and Reggie in Free Birds (2013). He stars as Mobius M. Mobius in the Disney+ series Loki (2021–present). Wilson's accolades include an Oscar and BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay (for The Royal Tenenbaums), a Golden Globe and two SAG acting nominations (for Midnight in Paris and The Grand Budapest Hotel) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Inherent Vice). Description above from the Wikipedia article Owen Wilson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011) as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2014 he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, and Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way. Wilson is also known for his career as an onscreen comedian and member of the Frat Pack including starring in such comedies as Zoolander (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), How Do You Know (2010), The Big Year (2011), and The Internship (2013). He is also known for the family films Marley and Me (2008), and the Night at the Museum film series (2005–2014). He voices Lightning McQueen in the Cars film series (2006–present), Coach Skip in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), the title character in Marmaduke (2010) and Reggie in Free Birds (2013). He stars as Mobius M. Mobius in the Disney+ series Loki (2021–present). Wilson's accolades include an Oscar and BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay (for The Royal Tenenbaums), a Golden Globe and two SAG acting nominations (for Midnight in Paris and The Grand Budapest Hotel) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Inherent Vice). Description above from the Wikipedia article Owen Wilson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Community
The Daily Show
Entertainment Tonight
King of the Hill
Drunk History
Marvel Studios Assembled
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Night at the Museum
Avengers: Doomsday
The Oscars
Around the World in 80 Days
The Inspiration for 'Cars'
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Cable Guy
Deadpool & Wolverine
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Geared-Up
The Radiator Springs 500½
Armageddon
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Parents
Anaconda
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Haunting
Haunted Mansion
How Do You Know
Wonder
Little Fockers
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Focker-In-Law
Zoolander 2
Zoolander
Cars 2
Shanghai Knights
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Internship
I Spy
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2
Mater and the Ghostlight
Loki
Marry Me
Shanghai Noon
Starsky & Hutch
Masterminds
Behind Enemy Lines
You, Me and Dupree
Bottle Rocket
Marley & Me
Father Figures
Cars
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Midnight in Paris
No Escape
Stick
Secret Headquarters
Cars on the Road
Wedding Crashers
Drillbit Taylor
Hall Pass
Paint
Bliss
Cars 3
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