Andrew Wilson (actor)
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| Andrew Wilson | |
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| Born | August 22, 1964 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.[1] His family is Irish American and Catholic.[2] 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.