Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor.

Overview
Known for roles when diverse when a Elvis-like adolescent idol Nick Streams, lakes, and wells throughout around Top Secret! to real-life legends Doc Holliday, cultural hero Robert Elliot Burns, and rock idol Jim Morrison, to larger-than-life characters Bruce Wayne/Batman and Simon Templar, the Saint. In the 2002 film The Salton Sea, he plays Danny Parker, a jazz trumpeter who infiltrates the class action of crystal meth addicts and becomes 1 himself within an attempt to avenge a senseless demise of his married woman.

Biography
Natural within Los Angeles, California, and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Kilmer is one of three sons born to Gladys & Eugene Kilmer, a others existence older brother Mark & immature brother Wesley. A personal is of mixed ancestry including Scottish, Swedish, Irish, German, Mongolian, Sephardic Jewish and 1/8th Cherokee ancestry. Once he was Xvii & upright astir to begin researching at Juilliard Drama School in New York, Wesley drowned in the family's have floating pool. Recently, Kilmer & director D. J. Caruso explored the theme of loss together in their film release The Salton Sea. Caruso likewise wasted the brother inside an accident.

Kilmer's ex-ex is Joanne Whalley, an actress and previous lead singer of Cindy & the Saffrons. Them met when working together on the film Willow. It st& ii toddlers, girl Mercedes and boy Jack. Their marriage lasted from either March 1988 to February 1996.

Kilmer is look upon "difficult" by occasionally in the industry, like directors John Frankenheimer (The Island of Doctor Moreau), Ron Howard (Willow) and Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever). Frankenheimer reportedly became therefore angry that he got Kilmer physically escorted from either a placed, late commenting "At my age there are two things I will never do, climb Mount Everest or work with Val Kilmer ever again!" All the same, he has been commended by more directors & co-stars, world health organization look at him as a super committed & strong-industrious actor & convenient for along using.

Inside 2004, Kilmer returned to the theatre to play Moses in a Los Angeles musical production of The Ten Commandments produced by BCBG founder Max Azria. a production, which was non a critical profits, played the Kodak Theater inside Hollywood. Kilmer experienced already voiced Moses for the alive moving-picture show The Prince of Egypt.

Recently, Kilmer was around negotiations by using Richard Dutcher (''God's Army, Brigham City) for the lead role in his 2005 film Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith. He was at first cast in a section & was excited all about swimming the Mormon church founder, but experienced to back out due to more acting obligations. Charted something of the decline inside his film career & the noticeable weight benehealthy, Kilmer is once again searching fit & is starring in The Postman Always Rings Twice on the London stage, which is receiving fantabulous critical reviews, when come Kilmer & his costars.

Partial filmography
Top Secret! (1984) Real Genius (1985) One Too Many (TV) (1985) Top Gun (1986) The Murder in the Rue Morgue (TV) (1986) The Man Who Broke 1000 Chains (TV) (1987) Willow (1988) Hamlet (Colorado Shakespeare Festival) (1988) Kill Me Again (1989) Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid (TV) (1989) The Doors (1991) Thunderheart (1992) Tis Pity She's A Whore (Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York) (1992) The Real McCoy (1993) True Romance (1993) Tombstone (1993) Wings of Courage (IMAX) (1995) Dead Girl (1995) Batman Forever (1995) Heat (1995) The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996) The Ghost & the Darkness (1996) The Saint (1997) Africa Unbottled (TV documentary) (1998) The Prince of Egypt (1998) At First Sight (1999) Joe the King (1999) Red Planet (2000) Pollock (2000) Run For the Money (TV) (2002) The Salton Sea (2002) Wonderland (2003) Spartan (2004) Mindhunters (2004) Alexander (2004)

Upcoming projects
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang (2005) Delgo (2005) A License to Steal'' (2005)