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andrew wilson - biography
Full Name: Andrew Cunningham Wilson
Date of Birth: 22 August 1964
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas
Andrew Cunningham Wilson (born August 22, 1964) is an American film actor.
Wilson was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Laura Wilson (née Cunningham),
a photographer, and Robert Andrew Wilson, an advertising executive and
operator of a public television station.His family is Irish American and
Catholic. He is the older brother of actors Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson.
Wilson has made brief appearances in many of the films his brothers have
starred in, and made his directorial debut in 2005, co-directing The
Wendell Baker Story with Luke Wilson. His largest acting role to date was
as Future Man/John Mapplethorpe in the 1996 Owen Wilson/Wes Anderson movie
Bottle Rocket. He also appeared in Zoolander and Anderson's Rushmore and
The Royal Tenenbaums. He appeared opposite brother Owen in the 2004 remake
of The Big Bounce. Most recently he appeared in Mike Judge's Idiocracy as
gladiator, Beef Supreme. He has appeared with brother Luke in Charlie's
Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, playing Roger Corwin's driver
in the first and a dimwitted cop in the second.
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