Mark hamill

Mark Richard Hamill (Oakland, California, September 25, 1951) is an American film, television, voice actor, director, producer, and writer. He is known for playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars film series, winning three Saturn Awards for the role. His other film appearances include Corvette Summer (1978) and The Big Red One (1980). Hamill has also appeared on stage in various theater productions, mainly during the 1980s.

He is a prolific voice actor who has portrayed characters in many animated television series, movies, and video games. Hamill is known for his long-standing role as DC Comics' Joker, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1994), Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008) and Skips in Regular Show (2010-2017).

Biography

Hamill was born on September 25, 1951 in California and grew up in Virginia, New York and Japan. His mother was homemaker Virginia Suzanne (née Johnson) and his father, William Thomas Hamill, was a captain in the United States Army. He has six siblings, including two brothers, Will and Patrick, and four sisters, Terry, Jan, Jeanie, and Kim. His father was of English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh descent and his mother was half Swedish and half English. From his youth, due to his father's career, the family moved numerous times, and Hamill subsequently attended different schools.. In his elementary years, he attended Walsingham Academy and Poe Middle School. At age 11, he moved to the 5900 block of Castleton Drive in San Diego, California, where he attended Hale Junior High School. During his freshman year at James Madison High School, his family moved to Virginia, where he attended Annandale High School. In his first year, his father was destined to travel to Japan, where Hamill attended and graduated from Nile C. Kinnick High School at the Yokosuka Naval Base and was a member of the Drama Club. He later enrolled in Los Angeles City College and majored in drama.

On December 17, 1978, he married Marilou York, a dental hygienist, in a private civil ceremony. From this union, Mark and Marilou have 3 children; Nathan, Griffin and Chelsea. He also has a grandson on Nathan's side.

Film career

Film Principles

Mark Hamill at the San Diego International Comic Convention in California, presenting Star Wars: Episode VII - The Awakening of Force in July 2015.

Hamill's early career included a recurring role on the soap opera General Hospital, and a starring role on the short-lived sitcom The Texas Wheelers. He played the eldest son, David, in the pilot episode of Eight Is Enough, although the role was later played by Grant Goodeve. He also made guest appearances on The Bill Cosby Show, The Partridge Family, Room 222, and One Day at a Time. He appeared in multiple TV movies such as The City, and Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic.

Star Wars

Robert Englund was auditioning for a role in Apocalypse Now, when he walked across the aisle where the auditions for George Lucas's Star Wars were taking place. After watching the auditions for a while, he realized that Hamill, his friend, would be perfect for the role of Luke Skywalker. He suggested that Hamill audition for the role; Hamill had already arranged the audition that landed him the part.

Hamill in the premier of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope in 1978.

Released in May 1977, Star Wars was a huge and unexpected success and had a great effect on the film industry. Hamill also appeared in the less successful Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978 and later starred in the hit sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. During the time between the first two films, Hamill was involved in a serious car accident, fracturing his nose and left cheekbone. False rumors spread that he needed plastic surgery on his face. For both sequels, Hamill was honored with the Saturn Award for Best Actor from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

Hamill reprized the role of Luke Skywalker for the radio dramas of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. For the radio drama Return of the Jedi, the role was played by a different actor.

Editions of The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (who influenced Lucas while developing the films) were issued after the release of Star Wars in 1977 and they used the image of Hamill as Luke Skywalker on the cover.

Hamill returned to the Star Wars universe in 2014, when he played the former Sith Lord Darth Bane, in the final episode of the sixth season of the animated series The Clone Wars. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for his performance.

With The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm, a press release from Disney announced that there would be more Star Wars movies beginning with The Force Awakens, which was released on the 18th. December 2015. Both Disney and Hamill were initially coy about whether Hamill would be a cast member in The Force Awakens. Hamill was reportedly assigned a nutritionist and trainer staff to work before production. In September 2013, Hamill's friend Robert Englund confirmed that "they've got Mark in the gym because Mark is coming back as Luke Skywalker." Despite being top billed, Hamill only appears briefly at the end of the film (without dialogue) into a thriller setting for the sequel.

Hamill reprized Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, released on December 15, 2017. Hamill was initially critical of his own role in the film, stating that he and the Director Rian Johnson had "a fundamental difference" in the characterization of Skywalker. Hamill later expressed regret for making those statements, calling the film an "all-time great", and reprized his role as Skywalker. again in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Hamill also has a brief vocal cameo in The Last Jedi as a droid, as well as in the spin-offs Rogue One and Solo: A Star Wars Story in undisclosed roles, for which he was credited as "William M. Patrick" and "Patrick Williams".

Hamill was rejuvenated digitally to reprise his role as Luke Skywalker in the season two finale of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian.

Other projects

Mark Hamill in Amsterdam in 1980.

After the success of Star Wars, Hamill found that the public identified him closely with the role of Luke Skywalker, after which he became a teen idol and appeared on magazine covers. teen magazines like Tiger Beat and others. He attempted to avoid typecasting by appearing in Corvette Summer (1978) and the best-known World War II film The Big Red One (1980). In 1980, he also made a guest appearance on The Muppet Show, as himself and as Luke Skywalker in The Stars of Star Wars; this episode also featured characters from the C saga -3PO and R2-D2 who were with him in the search for Chewbacca. Other film appearances around this time include The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981) and Britannia Hospital (1982). Further distancing himself from his first blockbuster role, Hamill began acting on Broadway, starring in such plays as The Elephant Man in 1979, Amadeus in 1983, Harrigan 'N Hart in 1985 (for which he received a Drama Desk Award), Room Service in 1986, and The Nerd in 1987-1988. When Amadeus was adapted for film in 1984, Hamill auditioned to rep He withdrew the role on the big screen, but lost the role to Tom Hulce. A studio executive told the film's producers, "I don't want Luke Skywalker in this movie." He made television appearances in one episode. from 1986 of Amazing Stories and a 1987 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Hamill returned to film after a six-year hiatus with the science fiction film Slipstream (1989). He continued to star in films throughout the 1990s, including in films such as the thriller Midnight Ride (1990), The Guyver (1991), the remake of the film of the same name released in 1995, Village of the Damned, and the Swedish action film ''Hamilton (1998). Hamill appeared in the 2001 film as the supervillain Cocknocker, a role that both parodies him same as the roles he has played in the past. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Mark Hamill signing autographs during the 30-year celebration of delivery Star Wars (2007).

He guest-starred in two episodes as Trickster in the 1990 live-action television series The Flash. He made guest appearances on MADtv, where he played the estranged father of Mrs. Swan, and appeared on Saturday Night Live playing himself being sold at a Star Wars-themed home shopping sale. Hamill appeared in individual episodes of i>3rd Rock from the Sun in 1997, Just Shoot Me! in 1998 and in two episodes of seaQuest DSV in 1995 (as Tobias LeConte) He also appeared in the 1995 television series The Outer Limits episode "Mind over Matter".

When the computer game series Wing Commander began using full-motion video cutscenes, Hamill was cast as the series' lead, Colonel Christopher Blair, a role he played in Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom and Wing Commander: Prophecy. In the movie Wing Commander from 1999, set earlier in the series, the character was played by Freddie Prinze, Jr., though Hamill had a voice cameo. Hamill appears in Squadron 42, the campaign Single player computer game universe Star Citizen as Lieutenant Commander Steve "Old Man" Colton.

In 2003, Hamill starred in the two-actor play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as the acerbic dance instructor Michael Minetti. He played opposite Rue McClanahan during the season at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, and opposite Polly Bergen when the production moved to Broadway.

Hamill also directed and starred in the 2004 direct-to-DVD comic Comic Book: The Movie. A comic book fan who attended science fiction and comic conventions before becoming famous, Hamill stated that his character was based on an exaggerated version of himself. He and his crew filmed most of the "mockumentary" during the 2002 San Diego Comic-Con International and cast Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, Bruce Campbell and Hugh Hefner in bit roles. The film won an award for Best Live Action DVD Release Film at the 2005 DVD Exclusive Awards.

In 2011, Hamill appeared as a villain in the fifth season of the NBC series Chuck.

Hamill also appeared on the television series Criminal Minds in the final two episodes of season eight as John Curtis, aka "The Replicator," a serial killer who has been stalking the BAU crew during the show's eighth season. He also made a guest appearance alongside George Takei in the first-season finale of the ABC sitcom The Neighbors as Commander Bill.

Hamill did not star in any live-action films for several years until 2011, when he starred in the Hungarian film Thelomeris, on which he was a creative consultant. The film was the first mainstream science fiction film to be released in Hungary.

The following year, Hamill starred in two more live-action films, the British horror film Airborne and the small independent film Sushi Girl. Airborne met with a negative reception from critics and audiences. Hamill said in an interview that Sushi Girl was a big challenge for him as it took him out of his zone. of comfort since it was such a dark movie. He did not accept the role until he received encouragement from his daughter, who she said would be crazy not to accept it.

In 2014, Hamill played James Arnold, an academic professor at Imperial College London and an expert on climate change, in the film Kingsman: The Secret Service. In addition, he reprized his role as Trickster on The CW's 2014 live-action series The Flash, in the seventeenth episode of the first season, the ninth episode of the second season, and the ninth episode of the second season. third season episode.

He starred in the 2018 film Con Man, an independent film about the life of Barry Minkow, the notorious con man. Hamill played Minkow's father, Robert Minkow.

Hamill appeared in the second season of the historical fiction drama series Knightfall, released in 2019. His role is Master Talus, a veteran templar who trains initiates at the Temple of Chartres. He also appears in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

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