Christopher McDonald

Shooter McGavin is one of those movie villains you love to hate so effortlessly that you almost forget you're watching a performance — and that's precisely what makes Christopher McDonald such an underrated gem. Born in New York in 1955, he's been quietly owning every scene he walks into for decades, playing the smug antagonist with a level of commitment that most leads can only dream of. His smarmy grin, that performative outrage, the way he'd point at the audience and say "I eat pieces of sh*t like you for breakfast" — he made Shooter so perfectly hateful that the role followed him everywhere, and honestly, good. He's also turned up in Thelma & Louise, Requiem for a Dream, and countless TV shows, proving he has real range, but character actor royalty is his true throne. The kind of guy who makes the whole movie better just by showing up.

Name (English)

Christopher McDonald

Name (Japanese)

クリストファー・マクドナルド

Reading

くりすとふぁー・まくどなるど

Born

February 15, 1955 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / actor / character actor / voice actor

University

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89

Tags

• New York
• television actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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