In December 1993, Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher had seen Tombstone and was most impressed with Kilmer's performance as Doc Holliday. Top Gun grossed a total of $344,700,000 worldwide and made Kilmer a major star. He turned down roles in Dune and Blue Velvet before being cast as naval aviator "Iceman" in the action film Top Gun alongside Tom Cruise. Kilmer sang all the songs in the film and released an album under the film character's name, "Nick Rivers".ĭuring a brief hiatus, he backpacked throughout Europe before going on to play the lead character in the 1985 comedy Real Genius. His big break came when he received top billing in the comedy spoof of spy movies Top Secret!, where he played an American rock and roll star. Kilmer turned down a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film, The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments. In 1981, while at Juilliard, Kilmer co-authored and starred in the play How It All Began, which was performed at the Public Theater at the New York Shakespeare Festival. At the age of 17, he became the youngest person at the time to be accepted into the Juilliard School's Drama Division, where he was a member of Group 10 (1977–1981).
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He then attended Chatsworth High School-where his classmates included Kevin Spacey and Mare Winningham-as well as the Hollywood Professional School. Kilmer attended Berkeley Hall School, a Christian Science school in Los Angeles, until 9th grade. His mother was of Swedish descent, and his father's ancestry reportedly included German, Irish, and Cherokee Native American. Kilmer's grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico, near the border with Arizona The poet Joyce Kilmer is a distant cousin of Kilmer's. His father passed away while Val was filming Tombstone. His parents divorced when he was nine years old. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley with his two siblings, older brother Mark and younger brother Wesley (1962–1977), who died at 15 due to an epileptic seizure in a swimming pool.
Kilmer was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Gladys (née Ekstadt) and Eugene Kilmer, an aerospace equipment distributor and real estate developer. His best known roles include Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors, Doc Holliday in Tombstone, Chris Shiherilis in Michael Mann's Heat and Bruce Wayne/Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984), then the cult classic Real Genius (1985), as well as the blockbuster action films Top Gun and Willow. Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.
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