Also in 1983, Kilmer self-published a collection of his own poetry entitled My Edens After Burns, that included poems inspired by his time with Pfeiffer. That same year, his first off-stage acting role (excluding television commercials) came in the form of an episode of ABC Afterschool Special called One Too Many, which was an educational drama on drinking and driving it also starred a young Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1983, he appeared off Broadway in The Slab Boys with Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn, and Jackie Earle Haley.
Kilmer turned down a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film The Outsiders, as he had prior theater commitments. He became the youngest person at the time to be accepted into the Juilliard School's Drama Division, where he was a member of Group 10. His high school girlfriend was Mare Winningham.
He attended Chatsworth High School with Kevin Spacey. In 1977, Kilmer's younger brother Wesley, who had epilepsy, drowned in a jacuzzi at age 15. Kilmer's grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico, near the border with Arizona. His mother later married William Bernard Leach in 1970. His parents divorced in 1968 when he was 8 years old. His other ancestry includes English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German and Cherokee roots. Kilmer was born December 31, 1959, in Los Angeles, California, the second of three sons to Gladys Swanette ( née Ekstadt 1928–2019) and Eugene Dorris Kilmer (1921–1993). One of the best-paid actors of the 1990s, movies featuring Kilmer have grossed over $3.5 billion at the worldwide box-office. In 2022, Kilmer reprised his role as Iceman, reuniting with Tom Cruise, in Top Gun: Maverick (2022). The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. His struggle was captured in the 2021 documentary titled Val which documented his career and health issues. In 2020, he published his memoir titled, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir. He also underwent chemotherapy and two tracheotomies. Since 2015, Kilmer has privately struggled with throat cancer he had a procedure on his trachea that damaged his vocal cords to the point where he had extreme difficulty speaking. "If there is an award for the most unsung leading man of his generation, Kilmer should get it," wrote critic Roger Ebert, "he has shown a range of characters so convincing that it's likely most people, even now, don't realize they were looking at the same actor." He continued acting in films such as The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), The Island of Dr. He replaced Michael Keaton portraying Bruce Wayne/Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever (1995). Kilmer's stardom continued, as he was often cast as a main character in critically acclaimed films such as the western Tombstone (1993), and the crime dramas True Romance (1993), and Heat (1995). Kilmer gained acclaim for his portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991). Originally a stage actor, Kilmer found fame after appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984) and Real Genius (1985), as well as the military action film Top Gun (1986), the fantasy film Willow (1988) and most recently in Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.
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