Biography
Owen Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter. He was born in Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he met filmmaker Wes Anderson.
Wilson has collaborated frequently with Anderson. They co-wrote and co-starred in Bottle Rocket (1996) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); the latter earned Wilson nominations for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also appeared in Anderson's Rushmore (1998), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The French Dispatch (2021).
Wilson starred as Gil Pender in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He is also known for voicing Lightning McQueen in the Cars film series (2006–present) and for roles in Wedding Crashers (2005) and the Night at the Museum series (2006–2014). He played Mobius M. Mobius in the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023) and Father Kent in Haunted Mansion (2023).
