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Val Kilmer Biography
Birth Name:
Val Edward Kilmer
Birth Place:
Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession
Actor
Fast Facts
- Distant cousin of poet Joyce Kilmer
- Attended Chatsworth High School with Kevin Spacey and Mare Winningham; Winningham and Kilmer dated during their teens
- Started acting in commercials at age 12, and at 17, was one of the youngest students ever accepted to Juilliard's drama school
- Made his Broadway debut in a 1983 production of John Byrne's The Slab Boys with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon
- Did his own singing when he played Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991)
- Voiced KITT in NBC's 2008 Knight Rider reboot
- Enjoys being outdoors; goes fishing, hiking and horseback riding in his spare time
- In 2010, appeared in character as Mark Twain at Boston's Mary Baker Eddy Library, in connection with Kilmer's work on a film on the life of Eddy, who founded Christian Science, and Eddy's link to Twain
- His appearance drew the library's largest crowd up to that time
Relationships
- Mark Kilmer -- Brother
- Wesley Kilmer -- Brother
- Mercedes -- Daughter
- Eugene Kilmer -- Father
- Gladys Kilmer -- Mother
- Jack -- Son
- Senga -- Stepmother