I was born on December 31, 1959 in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, the second of the three sons of Eugene Kilmer and his wife. When I was nine years old, my parents divorced, and my mother moved to Arizona. I chose to stay behind in the town of Chatsworth, California with my father. I managed to become accepted to the Julliard School in New York, where I became the youngest person ever accepted to the drama department. During my time at Juilliard, I appeared as Orestes, Macbeth, and Richard III, Greek tragedy and Shakespearean roles, as well as Henry IV and As You Like It. In 1981, while still at Juilliard, I starred in How It All Began, a play I co-authored. In 1983 I appeared Off Broadway in The Slab Boys with Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn. My other stage roles include: Hamlet, in Hamlet, at the 1988 Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the 1992 Jacobean play about incest and murder 'Tis Pity She's a Whore performed at Joseph Papp's Public Theater.I went from there to all the major and minor movies you all have seen me in, and if it wasn't for all of you, I would still be a nobody. Thank you very much. My fans mean more than you may think...
