![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: August 18, 1969 in New York, NY Biography:Born into a show business family -- father "Michael Hawkins" is a stage actor and mother "Mary Jo Slater" is a casting director -- "Christian Slater" made his acting debut at age eight after his mother cast him in the television soap opera One Life to Live on a lark. The following year Slater was on Broadway starring opposite "Dick Van Dyke" in The Music Man. Slater would remain on Broadway for at least two more productions. As a youth, Slater attended Manhattan's Professional Children's School. He made his television debut in the movie Living Proof: The Hank Williams Junior Story (1983) and his film debut two years later when he was only 16 in The Legend of Billy Jean. Slater earned some of his first favorable notice starring opposite "Sean Connery" in "The Name of the Rose" (1986). He next appeared in Tucker, a Man and His Dream (1988), and more films followed after that, but Slater did not become a... Full Biography
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