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My Take
Luke Wilson is my favorite kind of actor, the one who makes everyone around him better without demanding the spotlight. His work with Wes Anderson, from Bottle Rocket through The Royal Tenenbaums, shows a performer who understands that stillness can be funnier and sadder than any big gesture. Richie Tenenbaum remains, for my money, one of the great quietly broken characters in American film. The Dallas-raised everyman quality is not an accident; it is craft. And the fact that he also writes and directs tells me the laid-back surface hides a genuinely sharp filmmaker's brain. Underrated, decade after decade.
Overview
Luke Cunningham Wilson (born September 21, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his work with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in Anderson's Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Luke Wilson
- Name (Japanese)
- ルーク・ウィルソン
- Reading
- るーく・うぃるそん
- Born
- September 21, 1971 (age 54)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Boar
- Origin
- Dallas, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / actor / director / screenwriter / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Texas Christian University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.