Christian Slater Biography

Christian Slater, an Americann actor, was born on 18 August 1969 in New York. His mother is Hollywood casting director Mary Jo Slater, who gave her Star Trek-obsessed son a cameo in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).

Slater is a father of two: his son born in 1999 and his daughter in 2001.

In 2000, he was married to reporter Ryan Haddon.

In 2004, he played Randle P McMurphy in the play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Edinburgh Fringe. He twice contracted chicken pox, delaying the show's opening. While continuing to appear in this play in London's West End, Slater was asked to play the role of John Watson aka Wonko the Sane for the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, produced by Above the Title Productions.

Legal Run-ins

• On December 29, 1989, Slater crashed into a telephone poll in West Hollywood, California and then led police on a car chase and kicked an officer.
• On December 23, 1994, Slater was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport for bringing a gun on to an airplane.
• In 1995, his ex-fiance, Nina Huang, sued him for palimony. The two reportedly settled out of court with Slater paying Huang $100,000.
• On August 11, 1997, Slater was arrested by police in Los Angeles and charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of battery after Slater, drunk and high on heroin, punched his girlfriend in the face at a party and then attacked a police officer. He was sentenced to three months in prison, serving 59 days for good behavior.
• In 2003, his wife, Ryan Haddon, was arrested for beating up Slater at a Hard Rock Cafe while on a trip to Las Vegas and he later received stitches. Slater has filed for divorce from Haddon for spousal abuse.
• On May 31, 2005, Slater was arrested around 1:50 a.m. in Manhattan's Upper East Side, near 93rd Street and Third Avenue, after a woman told police that a man had grabbed her buttocks. She identified Slater as the man. Slater was arrested and charged with third-degree sexual abuse. The following July 14, prosecutors offered Slater a plea bargain but he refused it insisting the charges were false. On September 19, Slater accepted a better plea bargain whereby the charges would be dropped if he stayed out of trouble for six months.

The following list details films in which he has appeared:

2002

• Windtalkers

2001

• Cletis Tout
• 3000 Miles to Graceland

2000

• The Contender

1998

• Hard Rain
• Very Bad Things

1997

• Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery

1996

• Bed of Roses
• Broken Arrow

1995

• Murder in the First

1994

• Interview With The Vampire
• Jimmy Hollywood

1993

• True Romance
• Untamed Heart

1992

• Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
• Kuffs

1991

• Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
• Mobsters: The Evil Empire

1990

• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
• Young Guns II
• Pump Up the Volume

1989

• Heathers
• Gleaming the Cube
• The Wizard
• Beyond the Stars

1988

• Tucker: The Man and His Dream

1986

• Name of the Rose

1985

• The Legend of Billie Jean