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Chris O'Donnell
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Born: Jun 26, 1970
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O'Donnell began capitalizing on his face at age 12 by landing modeling assignments and commercials. His big break came, at age 17, when he secured the role of Jessica Lange's eldest son in Men Don't Leave. It was fortuitous that O'Donnell's strength was in playing regular-guy types because that was exactly what Hollywood was looking for. He was cast as the decent boy-next-door, again opposite Jessica Lange, in Tony Richardson's Blue Sky, but the project, which earned Lange an Academy Award, was shelved for three years. His breakthrough role came with Scent of a Woman, in which he played a wholesome prep-school kid hired to guide a blind Al Pacino through New York City for one last fling. The movie was a hit, and the exposure led to more regular-guy roles: he played a WASP in School Ties, and a naïve Musketeer-wannabe in The Three Musketeers.
His status as a star was cemented when he became the Boy Wonder in the third Batman installment, Batman Forever, and the way he filled out a codpiece soon made him a heartthrob in the eyes of many young women (and men — one dedicated male fan put up an Internet site devoted to him).
So far, O'Donnell has remained a regular guy in his real life — quite a feat for a young movie star. He married longtime girlfriend Caroline Fentress, a kindergarten teacher; he still lives in his native Chicago and remains close to his old friends; and during the filming of Batman Forever, he attended night classes in order to complete the final credi...[MORE]
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Chris O'Donnell Nude and Sexy
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