Paul Walker
Paul Walker - Biography
Name : Paul William Walker IV
Profession : Actor
Date of Birth : September 12, 1973
Hometown : Glendale, CA
The eldest of four children, Paul William Walker IV was
born September 12th, 1973, to a photo-journalist father and
model mother in Glendale, California. It was his mother,
with her connections in the entertainment industry, who
first gave the world a glimpse of the future successful
actor.
Keeping up the acting thanks to the encouragement of his
parents, who wanted the fruits of his labor to go to a
college fund, Walker appeared in three different episodes of
Highway to Heaven in the mid-'80s and in a children's movie
called Monster in the Closet. A year-long regular role in
the sitcom Throb followed, and at fourteen years of age, he
endured his first B-movie experience in Programmed to Kill.
For Walker, acting had served its purpose: He was able to
go to community college (he went to several different ones
in Southern California) with the hopes of becoming a marine
biologist. He continued acting on the side, however, and
could be seen in the soap opera The Young and the Restless
in 1993 and the film Tammy and the T-Rex in 1994.
A secretive underground society was discovered in 2000's
The Skulls. Of course, it was 2001's The Fast and the
Furious that saw Walker evolve from teenie-bopper actor to
full-blown star.
Joy Ride was also released in 2001. Accolades for
Walker's tough guy appeal came from all over, but his
thrill-seeker image is balanced out by his role as devoted
father to his daughter, Meadow (his child with a former
flame).
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