Christian Slater - Definition and Overview

Christian Slater (born Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins on August 18, 1969 in New York) is an American actor. His mother is Hollywood casting director Mary Jo Slater, who gave her Star Trek-obsessed son a cameo in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).

On August 11, 1997, Slater was arrested by police in Los Angeles and charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of battery after Slater, drunk and high on heroin, punched his girlfriend in the face at a party. He was sentenced to three months in prison, serving 59 days for good behavior.

Slater is a father of two: his son born in 1999 and his daughter in 2001.

Partial filmography

• Alone in the Dark (2005)
• Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)
• Windtalkers (2002)
• Cletis Tout (2001)
• 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
• The Contender (2000)
• Hard Rain (1998)
• Very Bad Things (1998)
• Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)
• Bed of Roses (1996)
• Broken Arrow (1996)
• Murder in the First (1995)
• Interview With The Vampire (1994)
• Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
• True Romance (1993)
• Untamed Heart (1993)
• (1992)
• Kuffs (1992)
• Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991)
• (1991)
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
• Young Guns II (1990)
• Pump Up the Volume (1990)
• Heathers (1989)
• Gleaming the Cube (1989)
• The Wizard (1989)
• Beyond the Stars (1989)
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
• The Name of the Rose (1986)
• The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)

External links

• Christian Slater (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000225/) at the Internet Movie Database