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).