Real Genius, a 1985 comedy in which he played the lead, was his second major film role. That all changed when he starred in Top Secret!, an action comedy that successfully began his film career.
Kilmer rarely appeared in front of the camera at this time in his career, and his only non-theater jobs were in commercials and one educational video about drinking and driving. This is one of the most sought-after poetry books today, with secondhand copies fetching hundreds of dollars. In 1983, he appeared in the off-Broadway musical Slab Boys alongside Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn.ĭuring this time, he continued to exercise his writing muscles by publishing My Eden After Burns, a collection of his own poetry. Kilmer’s concentration in this early stage of his career was theatre, and he even rejected down significant cinema opportunities to stay in the theatre industry. Kilmer’s career began at Juilliard, when he co-wrote and performed the play How It All Began, which premiered at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Val Kilmer was the youngest person ever to be accepted into the prestigious acting school at the time. Kevin Spacey was one of his high school classmates, and Kilmer would subsequently follow in Spacey’s footsteps by being admitted into the Juilliard School.
Kilmer transferred to Chatsworth High School after attending a Christian Science school through ninth grade.
Val Kilmer’s father died in 1993, bringing the family’s death toll to four. Val’s parents split when he was eight years old, and his younger brother died when he was 19. Val Edward Kilmer was born in Los Angeles on December 31st, 1959.
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