Owen Wilson's biography
Owen Wilson is an actor, scriptwriter, and director. He shot to fame in the 2000s after co-starring with Jackie Chan in Tom Dey's American-Hong Kong Western comedy Shanghai Noon. He earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations (for The Royal Tenenbaums script and best actor in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Midnight in Paris); he's Hollywood's most charming and perpetually grinning blonde. Net worth: $70 million.
Childhood: Dallas, Texas
Robert and Laura Wilson welcomed their middle child on a November day in 1968, joining his two brothers. They named the boy Owen, and he lived up to his name with boundless zest for life and natural sociability. Despite being mischievous, curious, and never backing down from a playground scrap, Owen was still loved by everyone. No one was more creative when it came to inventing games. His distinctive nose shape comes from one of those games - a double fracture that became his signature look.

Youth: Los Angeles, Hollywood
In 1996, the ambitious young duo tracked down James Brooks (producer of The Simpsons) and pitched him their short film Bottle Rocket, which they'd written themselves. Despite Brooks's generous $5 million investment, the full-length version completely bombed at the box office. But the relentless Wilson wasn't giving up on his Hollywood dreams.
Career: year 2000
According to oomboola.com, the role that sealed his breakout success was Roy, the unlikely partner of Chon Wang (Jackie Chan, the bodyguard of a Chinese princess in the Western comedy Shanghai Noon (2000). Major roles kept rolling in. Wilson eagerly jumped into Ben Stiller's comedies (Zoolander, Meet the Fockers), and he also starred in the sequel Shanghai Knights.




In 2009, director Shawn Levy filmed the sequel Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, where Owen reunited with Ben Stiller and also worked alongside Robin Williams. 2010 brought three new movies: comic Marmaduke, comedy How Do You Know, and Little Fockers. In Little Fockers, Wilson reunited with his former co-stars: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, and stunning Barbra Streisand.


Owen Wilson's personal life
Despite being involved in several serious relationships, Owen Wilson remains single as he approaches his 50th birthday. In 2006, the You, Me and Dupree actor and screenwriter met Kate Hudson on set. Owen became so invested in the relationship that when Kate ended things, he was devastated and attempted suicide. After that, he avoided getting involved seriously with anyone else. Flirting? Sure, but that's about it.

His search for a life partner brought him together with Varunie Vongsvirates, a medical business development representative, in 2013. He dated her for five years. Just before Owen's 50th birthday, Varunie gave birth to baby Lyla on October 10, 2018, making him a father once again. Wilson requested a DNA test from the young mother, which confirmed he was indeed the father.Owen himself explained his unsuccessful attempts at a personal life with the fact that Hollywood's influence is just far too great. The pressure of making the right and definite choice pushes the actor to experiment, compare the women he's been within his search for the one, whom he, Hollywood's happiest blond, could marry.
