
Owen Wilson
Known for Acting · 124 credits
- Born
- 1968-11-18 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Dallas, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Owen Cunningham Wilson · Owen C. Wilson
Biography
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011) as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2014 he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, and Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way.
Wilson is also known for his career as an onscreen comedian and member of the Frat Pack including starring in such comedies as Zoolander (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), How Do You Know (2010), The Big Year (2011), and The Internship (2013). He is also known for the family films Marley and Me (2008), and the Night at the Museum film series (2005–2014). He voices Lightning McQueen in the Cars film series (2006–present), Coach Skip in Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), the title character in Marmaduke (2010) and Reggie in Free Birds (2013). He stars as Mobius M. Mobius in the Disney+ series Loki (2021–present).
Wilson's accolades include an Oscar and BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay (for The Royal Tenenbaums), a Golden Globe and two SAG acting nominations (for Midnight in Paris and The Grand Budapest Hotel) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Inherent Vice).
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Known For
TV Shows (29)

The Daily Show
1996
as Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self - Cameo (uncredited)

King of the Hill
1997
as Rhett Van Der Graaf (voice)

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self - Guest

Community
2009
as Other Study Group's Leader

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self / Self - Guest

Hot Ones
2015
as Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Loki
2021
as Mobius M. Mobius

Drunk History
2013
as John Harvey Kellogg

The Reichen Show
2005
as Self

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Made in Hollywood
2005
as Self

Stick
2025
as Pryce Cahill

Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
as Self - Mobius

Documentary Now!
2015
as Father Ra-Shawbard

Rove
1999
as Self

Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self

Circus Halligalli
2013
as Self

Cars on the Road
2022
as Lightning McQueen (voice)

LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
2024
as Lighting McQueen (voice)

Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist
2022
as Self - Fan of Notre Dame, 2012 Game (archive footage)

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Heat Vision and Jack
1999
as Heat Vision (voice)

Cars: Lightning Racers
as Lightning McQueen (voice)
Movies (95)

Cars 2
2011
as Lightning McQueen (voice)

Cars
2006
as Lightning McQueen (voice)

Cars 3
2017
as Lightning McQueen (voice)

Wonder
2017
as Nate

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as M. Chuck

Armageddon
1998
as Oscar

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
as Mobius M. Mobius (uncredited)

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
as Jedediah Smith

Night at the Museum
2006
as Jedediah Smith (uncredited)

Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Coach Skip (voice)

Anaconda
1997
as Gary Dixon

Meet the Parents
2000
as Kevin Rawley

Meet the Fockers
2004
as Kevin Rawley

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009
as Jedediah Smith

Inherent Vice
2014
as Coy Harlingen

Wedding Crashers
2005
as John Beckwith

Marley & Me
2008
as John Grogan

Midnight in Paris
2011
as Gil

Zoolander
2001
as Hansel

Behind Enemy Lines
2001
as Lt. Chris 'Longhorn' Burnett

No Escape
2015
as Jack Dwyer

Shanghai Noon
2000
as Roy O'Bannon

Secret Headquarters
2022
as Jack

Hall Pass
2011
as Rick Mills

The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Eli Cash

The Sweatbox
2002
as Self

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
as Herbsaint Sazerac

Starsky & Hutch
2004
as Ken Hutchinson

The Haunting
1999
as Luke Sanderson

Around the World in 80 Days
2004
as Wilbur Wright

Little Fockers
2010
as Kevin Rawley

Haunted Mansion
2023
as Father Kent

Zoolander 2
2016
as Hansel

Free Birds
2013
as Reggie (voice)

Drillbit Taylor
2008
as Drillbit Taylor

The Cable Guy
1996
as Robin's Date

The Darjeeling Limited
2007
as Francis

Shanghai Knights
2003
as Roy O'Bannon

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
as Ned Plimpton

Bliss
2021
as Greg Wittle

Marry Me
2022
as Charlie Gilbert

Focker-In-Law
2026
as Kevin Rawley

Masterminds
2016
as Steve Chambers

Marmaduke
2010
as Marmaduke (voice)

I Spy
2002
as Alexander Scott

Charlie the Wonderdog
2025
as Charlie (voice)

Bottle Rocket
1996
as Dignan

Father Figures
2017
as Kyle Reynolds

Mater and the Ghostlight
2006
as Lightning McQueen (voice)

The Pixar Story
2007
as Lightning McQueen (voice) (archive footage)

The Big Year
2011
as Kenny Bostick

The Big Bounce
2004
as Jack Ryan

Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
as Self

You, Me and Dupree
2006
as Dupree

She's Funny That Way
2015
as Arnold Albertson

Are You Here
2013
as Steve Dallas

Paint
2023
as Carl Nargle

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021
as Mobius M. Mobius (archive footage)
Jackie Chan: Down to Earth
as Self

Lost in London
2017
as Owen Wilson

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as Zeus (voice)

Runner
2026
as Ben

How Do You Know
2010
as Matty

Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar
1996
as Self

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2
2023
as Self - 'Mobius' / 'Don'

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
as Self

The Radiator Springs 500½
2014
as Lightning McQueen (voice)

Breakfast of Champions
1999
as Monte Rapid

The Minus Man
1999
as Vann

Permanent Midnight
1998
as Nicky

The Wendell Baker Story
2005
as Neil King

The Hero of Color City
2014
as Ricky The Dragon (voice)

Rolling Loud
2026

Jackie Chan: Building an Icon
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Bottle Rocket
1993
as Dignan
Untitled Nancy Meyers Film
2027

On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005
as Self / Ned P.

Yeah Right!
2003
as Himself

Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short
2023
as Self

This Is an Adventure
2005
as Self

The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
2008
as Self

Heat Vision and Jack
1999
as Heat Vision

The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self

Drake Sather: The Man Who Created Zoolander
2016

Geared-Up
2006
Lips Like Sugar
as Phil Harris

Zoolander: Super Model
2016
as Hansel (voice)

The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
2010
as Self - Francis

Monkey Mischief
2009
as Jedediah

Radiator Springs Racers | Disneyland Resort
2025
as Lightning McQueen (voice)

The King of Luck
2011
as Self

Chryskylodon Blues
2015
as Self

Nash
2013
as Self

The Internship
2013
as Nick Campbell

Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
2016
as Narrator
About Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). Wilson also starred in… With 124 credits spanning from 1953 to 2027, Owen Wilson has appeared in 95 films and 29 TV shows.
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- Cars 2 (2011) — as Lightning McQueen (voice)
- Cars (2006) — as Lightning McQueen (voice)
- Cars 3 (2017) — as Lightning McQueen (voice)
- Wonder (2017) — as Nate
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) — as M. Chuck
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