Owen Wilson

Acting · Born 1968-11-18 in Dallas, 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…

Filmography

• Cars as Lightning McQueen (voice)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as Ned Plimpton
• Fantastic Mr. Fox as Coach Skip (voice)
• The Darjeeling Limited as Francis
• The Royal Tenenbaums as Eli Cash
• Marley & Me as John Grogan
• Midnight in Paris as Gil
• The Grand Budapest Hotel as M. Chuck
• The Pixar Story as Lightning McQueen (voice) (archive footage)
• No Escape as Jack Dwyer

TV

• Community as Other Study Group's Leader
• Loki as Mobius M. Mobius
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• The Daily Show as Self
• King of the Hill as Rhett Van Der Graaf (voice)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Heat Vision and Jack as Heat Vision (voice)
• Rove as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
• The Oscars as Self