Christopher Walken
Walken was born Ronald Walken (named after actor Ronald Colman) in Queens, New York. His father, Paul Walken, was a German immigrant, and his mother, Rosalie, was a Scottish immigrant; both of his parents were bakers. Walken worked in the family bakery, Walken’s Bakery, which was situated on Broadway and 30th Street in the Astoria Section of Queens, NY after school. He was raised in the Methodist religion. Influenced by their mother’s own dreams of stardom, he and his brothers Ken and Glenn were child actors on television in the 1950s. He studied at Hofstra University in Long Island but did not graduate. Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before moving on to dramatic roles in theatre and then film.
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