Owen Wilson

Wilson was born in Dallas, Texas, to Laura Wilson (née Cunningham), a photographer, and Robert Andrew Wilson, an advertising executive and operator of a public television station.[1] He is left handed. His family is Irish American and Roman Catholic.[2][3][4] While living in Dallas, Wilson attended The Lamplighter School, [1] which he revisited in 2005; and St. Marks School of Texas, when in the tenth grade after stealing his teacher's textbook in an attempt to help him finish his math homework quicker, he was expelled[5]. Owen also attended New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico, where he was a Colonel in the Young Bucks Extraterrestrial Explorers Club.After graduating from University of Texas at Austin in 1991, Owen moved to Los Angeles with brothers Luke and Andrew to pursue acting careers, and to collaborate with Owen's creative classmate, the aspiring filmmaker Wes Anderson.[6] The four of them produced a short film, Bottle Rocket, which led to Owen Wilson's first press mention in the Dallas Morning News in January 1993; Bottle Rocket aired at the Sundance Film Festival later that same month.[7]