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Navy, so the family relocated often, and Hamill grew up across the world, from California to New York to Japan. After Hamill graduated from high school overseas, his family moved back to the U. He enrolled at Los Angeles City College, where he studied drama and theater arts. Also in , Hamill landed a recurring role as Kent Murray on General Hospital , which carried him into After making a living though a respectable string of smaller roles in TV movies and series, in Hamill landed one of the lead roles in a new family drama called Eight Is Enough.
The show represented a big break for the actor, but another role would end up being the break of a lifetime. The actor dropped out of the TV show after its first episode to hit the big screen. Luke Skywalker was the linchpin of the entire story, and Hamill was thrust front and center into stardom. While the s and s were not hugely successful times for Hamill as an actor beyond the Star Wars trilogy, a recurring theme would begin to emerge in his filmography and put him soundly back on the map: voiceover work.
Playing villains became his specialty, and he regularly inhabited characters such as Hobgoblin, the Joker and Gargoyle with abandon.
You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera. With more than roles to his credit, brought Hamill back into the Star Wars universe with the official announcement that he would return to the big screen as Skywalker in a new trilogy. Abrams, opened in the U. After surfacing only at the end of The Force Awakens , Hamill's Skywalker was primed for a more prominent role alongside franchise newcomers Daisy Ridley and John Boyega for the anticipated sequel.
Mark Hamill has been married to Marilou York since They have three adult children: Nathan, Griffin and Chelsea. Tweeted he has never met Natalie Portman and revealed that the Annie Leibovitz photoshoot for Vanity Fair magazine which featured the stars of both Star Wars trilogies was actually shot individually.
He was offered a zombie cameo in the horror comedy Zombieland Good friends with fellow voice actor Charlie Adler. He praised Olly Taylor's performance as skekTek and wished it hadn't been overdubbed. Once he had finished the dialogue, Hamill did multiple takes of snarling, growling and stertorous breathing, which left him exhausted. He was good friends with the puppeteer Richard Hunt. His family called him "Uncle Richard", due to the fact that Hunt made regular visits.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it. Acting in "Star Wars", I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were. I broke my nose, that's it! But I've read accounts about how my face has been reconstructed with plastic surgery and how I was pulling myself along the highway with one arm looking for help.
I even heard that I drove off a cliff! That's the best one of all. You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that. You know where [the pride] comes from? It's not so much from the industry And you'd have to be a really, really hardened cynic not to be moved by that. Not only that, but just doing the interviews for this animation series, I can't tell you how many people have said, 'I got into the business because of that movie.
I totally understand that because I remember walking out of Jason and the Argonauts and saying, 'I don't know how they got those skeletons to fight, but someday I want that to be my job. To make skeletons fight. I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family. I just didn't have the skills to pull that off and so I've gravitated toward theater because I like all of it.
I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be. I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn I accepted that a long time ago. I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
I've been married to a dental hygienist for years and if you think I haven't heard "Use the Floss" you'd be mistaken. I'm human. I mean, I like ice cream, but I don't eat it three times a day. And I've forgotten a lot of it. If I was still working on it, it might be different, but I've put it in perspective. I want to be supportive without being critical, but it's not mine anymore. It was Carrie and I who had the screaming matches from time to time, though afterward neither of us could remember what they were about.
If you don't vote for Barack Obama , you're insane. Mid-July at Comic-Con. Love the country, love the people! I mean, he was joyless and was all but a heroin addict. It was tremendous. I mean, what an accomplishment! I've never seen such a Tom-centric performance since Hannibal Lecter where he creeped you out with that slithery tongue. I thought it was so original. Whether it was the screenwriter or Heath Ledger or Christopher Nolan or all three combined.
It's like an alternate reality and that's as valid a Joker as anything that has ever been done. Mine is sort of old school comic book and that's fine but I just have to take my hat off to all of them. I thought they were fantastic. I just thought that's the way it was going from when we finished. I figured that's what will be the pivotal moment.
I'll have to come back, but it will be I have Han Solo in my crosshairs and I'll be about to kill him or about to kill the Princess or about to kill somebody that we care about. It's an old cornball movie, like World War II movies. I'll do that. I'll never get it, because my association with Luke Skywalker is going to preclude me from being considered.
So anyway, without having any fear that I was getting it, I went in and just let it rip. And I had been on the road and on Broadway doing Amadeus so long that I had an arsenal of giggles and laughs that I used for Mozart. That was one of the requirements of that role: It startled Salieri in the Viennese court that this man that was capable of writing this celestial music had a donkey bray of a laugh that was just so unsettling.
It just didn't fit with who they thought he was. And I had to play around with that laugh a lot. When you do eight a week, just to keep it interesting I had a huge palette of different kinds of laughs. And the only reason I say all this is because later I said, "What got me the part, by the way? It was your maniacal laugh that really sealed the deal. On the death of Carrie Fisher It's never easy to lose such a vital, irreplaceable member of the family, but this is downright heartbreaking.
Carrie was a one-of-a-kind who belonged to us all-whether she liked it or not. She was OUR Princess, damn it, and the actress who played her blurred into one gorgeous, fiercely independent and ferociously funny take-charge woman took our collective breath away.
Determined and tough, but with a vulnerability that made you root for her and want her to succeed and be happy. She played such a crucial role in my professional and personal life, and both would have been far emptier without her. I am grateful for the laughter, the wisdom, the kindness and even the bratty self-indulgent crap my beloved space-twin gave me through the years.
Thanks, Carrie. I love you. It was like we were in a garage band together that somehow hit it huge. We had no idea the impact Star Wars would have on the world. I remember we were out on tour right before the movie opened. By the time, we got to Chicago, there was a crowd at the airport. I said, hey look, you guys, there must be somebody famous on the plane.
I was looking around to see who it might be. And then in the crowd I saw a kid dressed in a Han Solo vest. Then I saw girl dressed like Princess Leia. I said, oh my God, look, Carrie, there's somebody dressed just like you. She's got the buns on her head! The first time I met Carrie was at dinner in London before we started filming together. I had been the first one to go over to Africa with Sir Alec Guinness and the robots, to film all the desert planet stuff, then I came back to London and then Harrison Ford came over.
Carrie was the last piece in the puzzle to come to London. So, I said to the production office, I'd like to meet her before we work together.
They worked out that we'd meet for dinner. You know, she was 19 years old at the time. I was a worldly 24 years old. So, I was thinking, oh my God what it'll be like working with a high school kid. But I was just bowled over. I mean she was just so instantly ingratiating and funny and outspoken. She had a way of just being so brutally candid. I had just met her but it was like talking to a person you'd known for ten years.
She was telling me stuff about her stepfather, about her mom, about Eddie Fisher , it was just harrowing in its detail. I kept thinking, Should I know this? I mean, I wouldn't have shared that with somebody that I had trusted for years and years and years. But she was the opposite. She just sucked you into her world. I was so middle class. Growing up, the closest thing to a celebrity we had was our next-door neighbor, who was a baggage handler who returned Jerry Lewis ' wallet that fell on the tarmac in San Diego.
But she was something completely different. She dropped out of high school to be in the chorus of Irene on Broadway. I was just in awe of her. She was so committed to joy and fun and embracing life. She had an Auntie Mame quality to her. I would do crazy things to amuse her on the set. Making her laugh was always a badge of honor.
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