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Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson Bio Bio

Wilson has in the past few years become one of Hollywood’s favorite comic actors, although almost always in buddy or sidekick roles. Born in Texas, the son of a PBS ad executive and a photographer, and the brother of fellow actors Andrew Wilson and Luke Wilson, Owen was a self-described wild child who was expelled from high school, went to military school, and then attended University of Texas at Austin but never graduated.

Owen Wilson in Love Love

Wilson has been romantically linked to numerous women throughout the entertainment industry (and earned the salacious nickname, "The Butterscotch Stallion" in the process) from Sheryl Crow to Demi Moore, yet has somehow managed to elude the swordsman reputation. He has said in interviews that he had hoped to settle down and get married by age 30, but either due to his inability to focus on one woman or his own reservations about Hollywood relationships, that hasn’t happened. He was rumored to be seriously dating Francesca Versace, the 24 year-old niece of fashion designer Donatella Versace, until it leaked that he shared an intense, volatile yearlong affair with Kate Hudson, whose marriage to rocker Chris Robinson ended partly because of Wilson. Wilson’s recent on-and-off rollercoaster of a relationship with Hudson ended in June 2007 after drugs dragged Wilson into a dangerous bout of depression. After his brother Luke found him with his left wrist slashed, Wilson was hospitalized and received treatment and therapy. Day by day he is getting better, and to prove it there’s a new lady in his life, model Le Call. The two met through friends and have been dating for several weeks. A pal of the pair says, “She helps keep Owen grounded…she has been a great sense of comfort for him.”

Owen Wilson's Career Career

Wilson got his start as a writer, and to this day claims he thinks of himself as a writer first, actor second. While at UT-Austin, he cowrote with his friend Wes Anderson the screenplay for Bottle Rocket, which would star himself and his brother Luke and eventually become a huge critical success, (though a box office flop). After languishing in forgettable films like Anaconda, he hit the big time co-starring with Jackie Chan in the popular Shanghai Noon. Despite an odd attempt to become an action star with Behind Enemy Lines and I Spy, Wilson has focused on comedies, achieving monumental success with The Wedding Crashers and this summer’s You, Me & Dupree and the animated Cars. He was recently targeted in a strange publicity stunt by the band Steely Dan where they threatened to have a Russian roadie of theirs beat Wilson severely for the perceived slight of stealing the plot of You, Me & Dupree from one of their songs (even though Wilson didn’t write the movie). Wilson took the threat as a joke.

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