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Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson

Acting1968Dallas, Texas, USA

Biography

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).

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Acting History

2026
Focker-In-Law
as Kevin Rawley
Runner
as Ben
2025
Charlie the Wonderdog
as Charlie (voice)
Hot Ones
TVas Self1 eps
Stick
TVas Pryce Cahill10 eps
Stick
TVExecutive Producer
2024
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
TVas Lighting McQueen (voice)
2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
as Mobius M. Mobius (uncredited)
Haunted Mansion
as Father Kent
Paint
as Carl Nargle
Paint
Executive Producer
2022
Marry Me
as Charlie Gilbert
Cars on the Road
TVas Lightning McQueen (voice)9 eps
2021
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney Plus Day Special
as Mobius M. Mobius (archive footage)
Bliss
as Greg Wittle
Jackie Chan: Building an Icon
as Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Assembled
TVas Self - Mobius1 eps
Loki
TVas Mobius M. Mobius12 eps
2019
Documentary Now!
TVas Father Ra-Shawbard2 eps
2017
Wonder
as Nate
Father Figures
as Kyle Reynolds
Cars 3
as Lightning McQueen (voice)
Lost in London
as Owen Wilson
Made in Hollywood
TVas Self2 eps
2014
Inherent Vice
as Coy Harlingen
The Radiator Springs 500½
as Lightning McQueen (voice)
The Hero of Color City
as Ricky The Dragon (voice)
2013
The Internship
as Nick Campbell
Are You Here
as Steve Dallas
Free Birds
as Reggie (voice)
Drunk History
TVas John Harvey Kellogg1 eps
2011
Cars 2
as Lightning McQueen (voice)
Hall Pass
as Rick Mills
The Big Year
as Kenny Bostick
2010
Marmaduke
as Marmaduke (voice)
Little Fockers
as Kevin Rawley
How Do You Know
as Matty Reynolds
Community
TVas Other Study Group's Leader1 eps
2009
2008
Drillbit Taylor
as Drillbit Taylor
Marley & Me
as John Grogan
2007
The Pixar Story
as Lightning McQueen (voice) (archive footage)
2006
Night at the Museum
as Jedediah Smith (uncredited)
Mater and the Ghostlight
as Lightning McQueen (voice)
Cars
as Lightning McQueen (voice)
The Reichen Show
TVas Self1 eps
2004
Meet the Fockers
as Kevin Rawley
The Big Bounce
as Jack Ryan
Starsky & Hutch
as Ken Hutchinson
2003
Shanghai Knights
as Roy O'Bannon
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TVas Self / Self - Guest
2002
I Spy
as Alexander Scott
The Oscars
TVas Self4 eps
2001
Zoolander
as Hansel
Behind Enemy Lines
as Lt. Chris 'Longhorn' Burnett
King of the Hill
TVas Rhett Van Der Graaf (voice)1 eps
The Royal Tenenbaums
Executive Producer
2000
Shanghai Noon
as Roy O'Bannon
Meet the Parents
as Kevin Rawley
1999
The Haunting
as Luke Sanderson
Heat Vision and Jack
as Heat Vision
Heat Vision and Jack
TVas Heat Vision (voice)
1998
Armageddon
as Oscar
Rushmore
Executive Producer
Rushmore
Writer
1997
Anaconda
as Gary Dixon
As Good as It Gets
Associate Producer
1993
1975
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/18/1968(57 years old)
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA