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Val Kilmer
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December 31, 1959 in Los Angeles, CA
Biography:Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert's recollection of Val Kilmer's performance in the 1992 Thunderheart provides a fitting introduction to this intuitively gifted yet oft-underappreciated actor, by zeroing in on the strength at the core of Kilmer work. "Only... twenty minutes into the movie," Ebert writes, "...did I recognize... I had been watching Kilmer all along... [His] anonymity was not a trick of makeup or lighting... [there] is something inside Kilmer that seems to conceal him; he is this straight-arrow, conservative, by-the-numbers FBI agent [in Thunderheart], just as in The Doors he was the Dionysian rock druggie Morrison... [and] there is no common reference between the two characters. He is so inside the one... you cannot get a glimpse of the other. If there is an award for the most unsung leading man of his generation, Kilmer should get it. In movies as different as Real Genius, Top Gun,... Full Biography
Filmography
Dark Matter (2008) Comanche Moon (2008) The Dirt (2008) Conspiracy (2008) Delgo (2008) Columbus Day (2008) XIII (2008) American Meth (2007)
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