Top Gun grossed a total of over $344 million worldwide and made Kilmer a major star.įollowing roles in the television films The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains, Kilmer played Madmartigan in the fantasy Willow he met his future wife, co-star Joanne Whalley, on the film’s set. He turned down a role in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet before being cast as naval aviator “Iceman” in the action film Top Gun alongside Tom Cruise. While garnering more substantial roles and prestige, he also gained a reputation as a ladies’ man, dating numerous women, some many years older, including Cher and Ellen Barkin.ĭuring a brief hiatus, he backpacked throughout Europe before going on to play the lead character in the 1985 comedy Real Genius. Kilmer sang all the songs in the film and released an album under the film character’s name, “Nick Rivers”. His big break came when he received top billing in the comedy spoof of spy movies Top Secret!, in which he played an American rock and roll star. The book of poems is difficult to obtain and expensive even second-hand copies fetch $300 and up. Also in 1983, Kilmer self-published a collection of his own poetry entitled My Edens After Burns, which included poems inspired by his time with Pfeiffer. Kilmer first off-stage acting role (excluding television commercials) came in the form of an episode of ABC Afterschool Special called One Too Many, which was an educational drama on drinking and driving it also starred a young Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1983, he appeared off-Broadway in The Slab Boys with Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn, and Jackie Earle Haley. Kilmer turned down a role in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments. Val Kilmer co-authored and starred in the play How It All Began, which was performed at the Public Theater at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1981 while at Juilliard.
He became the youngest person at the time to be accepted into the Juilliard School’s Drama Division, where he was a member of Group 10. His high school girlfriend was Mare Winningham.
He attended high school with Kevin Spacey. In 1977, Kilmer’s younger brother Wesley, who had epilepsy, drowned in a jacuzzi at age 15. Kilmer’s grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico, near the border with Arizona. His parents divorced in 1968 when he was 8 years old. His father’s ancestry included English, Scottish-Irish, French, and German.
His mother Gladys Kilmer was of Swedish descent. He is the son of Gladys Swanette Ekstadt (1928–2019) and Eugene Dorris Kilmer (1921–1993), an aerospace equipment distributor and real estate, developer. Val Edward Kilmer was born on Decem(age 62 years) in Los Angeles, California, United States. His performances as Chris in Heat (1995) and “Gay Perry” in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) earned him nominations for Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He’s also known for his portrayals of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever (1995), and Simon Templar in The Saint (1997). Patterson in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), John Holmes in Wonderland (2003), and Philip II of Macedon in Alexander (2004) among others. Kilmer is perhaps best-known for playing real-life figures in movies, including Moses in The Prince of Egypt (1998), Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991), an apparition of Elvis Presley in True Romance (1993), Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993), John H. He found fame after appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984) and Real Genius (1985), as well as the military action film Top Gun (1986) and the fantasy film Willow (1988). Val Kilmer is an American actor and author.
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