Neighbor of Anthony Begonia and brother of Luke Wilson and Andrew Wilson.
Did not graduate from The University of Texas at Austin. He is 2 courses (he
has said Math and Spanish in an interview) shy of a degree.
Cut his chin and had to get stitches during the making of The Haunting (1999)
in the scene where his character Luke is attacking the portrait of Hugh Crane
with a candlestick.
Despite being grateful of his success as an actor, he still considers himself
a writer at heart and wishes he devoted more time to that rather than acting.
Due to a busy schedule as an actor, he sadly had to miss contributing to the
script for Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), despite
that he co-wrote Anderson's 3 previous films.
He is known for his improvisational abilities, which he mostly contributes
to films other than the more personal ones he does with Wes Anderson. Many of
the funniest lines in his movies are his improvisations.
Usually declines to discuss the source of his distinctive-looking nose, which
was clearly broken at one time. The broken nose was apparently the result of
a football injury attained while on the football team in high school (all three
Wilson brothers had played high school football, the elder Andrew with the greatest
success).
Is a member of, what the media refers to as, "The Frat Pack," along
with Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, and
Luke Wilson. The "Frat Pack" name is a reference to the film, Old
School (2003), featuring Vaughn, Ferrell and Luke Wilson, due to the wide number
of films featuring the seven actors. Wilson's "Frat Pack" films include
Zoolander (2001),Wedding Crashers (2005), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Cable
Guy (1996), and Starsky & Hutch (2004).
Has been in 8 movies with Ben Stiller, up to this date. They are The Cable
Guy (1996), Permanent Midnight (1998), Heat Vision and Jack (1999) (TV), Meet
the Parents (2000), Zoolander (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Starsky &
Hutch (2004) and Meet the Fockers (2004).
He and his brother Luke Wilson were originally meant to play the Malloy brothers
in Ocean's Eleven (2001), but dropped out to make _Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)
.
Shares his birthday with David Ortiz, Chloë Sevigny and Christina Vidal
Majored in English.
Father was a PBS exec.
When appearing on Australian talk show, "Rove Live" (2000), he became
the 1001st guest on the show. He was appearing with Isla Fisher. Fisher walked
out first and therefore became the 1000th. Wilson received a Meat Tray.
First "Frat Pack" member to receive an Academy Award nomination.
Is of Irish descent.
Was the best man at his brother, Andrew Wilson,'s wedding.
Has an Australian cattle dog named Garcia.
Is a talented skateboarder.
Attended military school, instead of a normal academic school.
Fan of Chelsea FC (England soccer club).
Met his girlfriend Kate Hudson on the set of You, Me and Dupree (2006).
Never wanted to be an actor. Just a writer.
Owen Wilson Detailed Biography
Born and reared in Dallas, Owen Wilson grew up in Texas with his advertising executive father and photographer mother Laura. The troublemaker was despatched to the tough New Mexico Military Institute to learn some discipline. It was there he discovered his passion for writing - editing the college magazine - and then went to California's UCLA to study English. Along with his degree, Wilson's budding partnership with a like-minded creative classmate, aspiring filmmaker Wes Anderson resulted their first film together, a short about a bookstore heist called Bottle Rocket played at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993, attracting the attention of producer Polly Platt and writer/director James L. Brooks. With their support, short into a feature, Bottle Rocket (1996). Though it made little impression at the box office, it succeeded to earn ardent fans among cineastes. As an actor, Wilson had minor roles in The Cable Guy in 1996 and the following year in the B-movie Anaconda. He reteamed with Anderson on the sublime Rushmore, starring Bill Murray, which he co-wrote and executive produced.
Wilson worked steadily for the rest of the 1990s. Wilson managed to bring a reliably laid-back, humorous spark to the bombastic proceedings in Anaconda (1997), Armageddon (1998), and The Haunting (1999). On a more artistically successful front, Wilson's next script with Anderson resulted in the lauded coming-of-age film Rushmore (1998). With its singular cast of characters, distinctive combination of deadpan humor and true emotion, and superb performances by Jason Schwartzman as teen prodigy Max Fischer and Bill Murray as depressed millionaire Blume, Rushmore earned prizes from the critics and proved that Bottle Rocket was no fluke. As far as acting, Wilson's ability to suggest complexity beneath a breezy surface earned positive notice for his unsettling performance as a laconic, self-styled Good Samaritan serial killer in indie thriller The Minus Man (1999). Switching genres, he starred as Roy O'Bannen in the martial arts spoof Shanghai Noon with Jackie Chan. He starred with comic mate Ben Stiller in Meet The Parents and Zoolander, as well as The Royal Tenenbaums (for which he was Oscar-nominated as a co-writer), also starring brother Luke.
Next up was the slick action caper Behind Enemy Lines with Gene Hackman, the buddy movie I Spy with Eddie Murphy and Shanghai Noon sequel Shanghai Knights
He played Hutch in the modern remake of Seventies TV series Starsky & Hutch for an £8m paycheque to Stiller's Starsky and also stars in crime thriller The Big Bounce.
