BIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY OF A FAMOUS LEO: CHRISTIAN SLATER

Actor, born in New York City, USA. He had a small role in a television soap opera when he was eight, and by the age of nine he was in the touring company of The Music Man. He made his film debut in The Legend of Billy Jean (1985), and became known after his role as the young monk in The Name of the Rose (1986). Later films include Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Very Bad Things (1998), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2000), and Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004). In 2004 he appeared in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at London's Gielgud Theatre, and starred in the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie in 2005.