- Birth Name
- Christophe Guy Denis Lambert
- Height
- 6'
- Mini biography
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Though born in Great Neck, Long Island, Christopher
Lambert moved away when he was only two years old. His father was
a United Nations diplomat assigned to Switzerland and, as a result,
Chris was educated at private boarding schools in Geneva. Inspired
through his having appeared in a play at age twelve, he went to the
Paris Conservatoire where he remained for two years. After a few small
parts in the French cinema, beginning in 1980, he successfully
competed for the title role in Warner Brothers' Greystoke:
The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). His co-stars
included Ian Holm, James
Fox (I) and Ralph
Richardson (in his final film performance). The movie was popular
with Tarzan buffs for remaining faithful (in the first half at least)
to Edgar Rice Burroughs' original story of the apeman. Two years later
Lambert brought to the screen Gregory Widen's legendary 'Connor
MacLeod', the literally immortal Highlander
(1986) cult-figure, born in the Highlands of Scotland in 1518 and
surviving into the futuristic Highlander
II: The Quickening (1991) and Highlander
III: The Sorcerer (1994). In recent years he has become a movie
producer while continuing to act in mostly action/adventure films.
- Spouse
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- Trivia
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The patented, intense gaze he often shows in his
roles is the result of myopia at an early age.
Once worked in a London branch of Barclay's bank.
Daughter, with Diane Lane, Eleonora.
Dated Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
Was scheduled to appear in the David Lean-directed
"Nostromo" in 1991, before Lean died, and the production
came to a halt.
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