Christian Slater Biography

Fast Facts

• At age 9, was cast in a Broadway revival of The Music Man, starring Dick Van Dyke
• In 1993, won the Most Desirable Male honor at the MTV Movie Awards for portraying a romantic lead opposite Marisa Tomei in the tearjerker Untamed Heart
• Slater, who replaced River Phoenix in the role of journalist Malloy in Interview With the Vampire (1994), donated his salary to charity in the late Phoenix's memory
• In January 1994, became Harper's Bazaar's first cover guy since Steve McQueen in 1968 when he and supermodel Christy Turlington posed together
• Made his London stage debut as Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Works with the Get Schooled Foundation to encourage graduation; Slater, once a high-school dropout, received his GED after finding success as an actor and becoming a parent