Christian Slater Wiki Biography

Christian Michael Leonard Slater was born in New York City, USA, on 18 August 1969,  It all started from Broadway in the early ’80s, where he performed in plays such as “The Music Man”, “Copperfield”, “Merlin”, “Macbeth”, “Side Man”, and “The Glass Menagerie”, but real stardom was in films, as described below.

So just how rich is Christian Slater? Sources estimate that Christian has a net worth of $20 million, which he has earned from acting, producing and directing, during a career in the entertainment industry spanning more than 35 years.

Christian Slater Net Worth $20 Million

Christian’s family was involved in acting: mother Mary Jo Slater was a talent agent and producer and his dad Michael Hawkins was an actor, so Christian had quite a head start to make a carrier of his own. However, his biggest boost into Hollywood was in 1985 when Slater got the male lead role in the film “The Legend of Billy Jean”. Although it wasn’t as successful as the producers expected, for Slater it was the beginning of the road to the a-lists.

Then parts in films flowed one after another, “The Name of the Rose” in 1986 with Sean Connery, “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” in 1988 produced by Francis Ford Coppola, “Gleaming the Cube” in 1989, and the same year Christian  starred in “Heathers” along side Winona Ryder (who was his love in real life as well), “Young Guns II” with Emilio Estevez and many more.

If you’re not a fan of old films and younger than 30, you would better remember Slater from big screen successes “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” in which Christian performed with Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman, “Broken Arrow” with John Travolta, and “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” in 1994, when three of the supposedly sexiest men on earth met on screen – Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Christian. His part in this film was exceptional not only for that reason; originally the part went to Slater’s friend River Phoenix, but because of his untimely death when he was just 23, Christian took his part, then donated his salary to all River Phoenix’s favorite charities.

Slater earned most of his net worth until the year 2000 from films, but from that year Christian started to appear more often in TV productions and tried to combine it with his big screen acting, because the interest in him from film makers had fallen. The most recent ones are “Breaking In” shown in 2011 and 2012, “Archer” in which he voiced the character named Slater, and the TV series “Mind Games”, both in 2014. Slater had often performed voice-overs in films, for example John Watson in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy”.

Aside from acting, unselfish things that Christian has done through his life include supporting charities like Nelson Mandela‘s charity for AIDS awareness, promoting South Africa humanitarian work and many more.

Slates personal life has had quite some color. He married in the year 2000 to his sons mother Ryan Haddon and had one more child. The marriage lasted five years and in that time Ryan had been charged with domestic violence, for throwing a bottle at her husband and slicing his neck, to take care of which needed 20 stitches. This is not the only time Christian had to deal with the police, but usually he was the one in trouble, in 1989 he was driving drunk, in 1997 he assaulted his girlfriend Michelle Jonas and in 2005 he was arrested for assaulting a woman on the street. Lets hope that Christian Slater’s net worth of $40 million will help him to battle his alcoholism and stay out of trouble with his new wife Brittany Lopez(2013).



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