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Owen Wilson is a comic actor and screenwriter known to most moviegoers as Jackie Chan's co-star in Shanghai Noon (2000) and Shanghai Nights (2003). Wilson began his movie career starring in the independent movie Bottle Rockets (1996), a low-budget charmer he wrote with director Wes Anderson. After several roles in clunkers such as The Cable Guy (1996) and Anaconda (1997), Wilson's career took off in 1998, with appearances in Armageddon (starring Bruce Willis) and Permanent Midnight (with his frequent co-star, Ben Stiller). Since then he has appeared in several movies, including Meet the Parents (2000, with Stiller and Robert DeNiro), Zoolander (2001, as the surfer supermodel Hansel) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001). Although he often appears on-screen as a blithesome stoner or goofy neer-do-well, Wilson is no slouch: he co-wrote Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed films Rushmore (1998, with Bill Murray) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, starring Gwyneth Paltrow), and has already appeared in more than twenty films, including The Big Bounce (2004), Starsky and Hutch (2004, again with Ben Stiller), Meet the Fockers (2004, with Dustin Hoffman), Wedding Crashers (2005, with Vince Vaughn), and You, Me and DuPree (2006, with Kate Hudson).
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Owen Wilson has always been intriguing: Handsome in a quirky, broken-nose, surfer-dude sort of way, with oddball friends like Wes Anderson, he always seemed smarter than your average Hollywood bear. Even so, his brother Luke was the hot one. Plus, Owen was such a relentlessly sunny guy, the perfect match for Goldie Hawn's relentlessly sunny daughter, Kate Hudson. Appealing, sure. But sexy? Not really.
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Owen Wilson recently had a failed attempted suicide in August 2007. Rumors have it that Steve Coogan is the one who got Owen started down the path of drug abuse, Steve Coogan has yet to give a statment on this.
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Owen Wilson has attempted suicide twice before, so says the National Enquirer. The tabloid claims Wilson mixed a deadly drug cocktail a few months before this latest suicide attempt and that he’s struggled with depression for most of his life.
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Owen Wilson returned to the public eye for the first time since his recent troubles by appearing at the Los Angeles premiere of The Darjeeling Limited.... Top Chef 3: Miami's Wednesday finale served up 3.1 million viewers, a 25 percent increase from the Season 2 closer and the time slot's most-watched basic-cable program.... Sam J. Jones of the 1980 cheesefest Flash Gordon guests on TV's Flash Gordon tonight. Sci Fi Channel ... is debuting the Battlestar Galactica: Razor two-minute flashbacks during the episode.... George Clooney's Leatherheads, also starring The Office's John Krasinski, has had its theatrical release pushed from Dec. 7 to April 4.... Speed will launch an HD channel in February, while Spike TV will do the same sometime in the first quarter of '08, says TV Week.
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Owen Wilson is clearly a team player. He first burst on the scene when he and his brothers teamed up with their friend Wes Anderson to make low-budget indie Bottle Rocket in 1996. The three then-unknown Texans garnered much attention for the critically acclaimed (but little-seen) film, and Wilson went on to play parts in mainstream studio films like The Cable Guy and Armageddon. He collaborated with Anderson several times, first on the wry comedy Rushmore, and then on The Royal Tenenbaums, which earned the two an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. Wilson gained mainstream clout for the two action/buddy films he made with Jackie Chan (Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights). But perhaps Wilson's most well-known partner is Ben Stiller; the two have made eight films together, starting with Permanent Midnight in 1998.
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