Owen Wilson

Actor / Screenwriter

Owen Wilson is a comic actor and screenwriter known to most moviegoers as Jackie Chan's co-star in Shanghai Noon (2000) and Shanghai Nights (2003). Wilson began his movie career starring in the independent movie Bottle Rockets (1996), a low-budget charmer he wrote with director Wes Anderson. After several roles in clunkers such as The Cable Guy (1996) and Anaconda (1997), Wilson's career took off in 1998, with appearances in Armageddon (starring Bruce Willis) and Permanent Midnight (with his frequent co-star, Ben Stiller). Since then he has appeared in several movies, including Meet the Parents (2000, with Stiller and Robert DeNiro), Zoolander (2001, as the surfer supermodel Hansel) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001). Although he often appears on-screen as a blithesome stoner or goofy neer-do-well, Wilson is no slouch: he co-wrote Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed films Rushmore (1998, with Bill Murray) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, starring Gwyneth Paltrow), and has already appeared in more than twenty films, including The Big Bounce (2004), Starsky and Hutch (2004, again with Ben Stiller), Meet the Fockers (2004, with Dustin Hoffman), Wedding Crashers (2005, with Vince Vaughn), and You, Me and DuPree (2006, with Kate Hudson).

Extra credit: Wilson was hospitalized on 26 August 2007, first at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, and then at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Neither Wilson or the hospitals have announced a reason for the hospitalization, but newspapers have widely reported it as a suicide attempt... Wilson's brothers, Luke and Andrew, are also actors... Wilson supplied the voice of the car Heat Vision in the short-lived television show Heat Vision and Jack (1999, starring Jack Black).

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ER to the Stars: Cedars-Sinai Hospital