Biography
Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor. He made his film debut playing a leading role in the 1985 film The Legend of Billie Jean. He then played a monk's apprentice alongside Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose before gaining recognition for his breakthrough role in the cult film Heathers. In the 1990s Slater featured in many big budget films including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Broken Arrow and Hard R...
Known For
Complete Filmography

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
2025
as Father (uncredited)
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increa...

Blink Twice
2024
as Vic
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacatio...

Unfrosted
2024
as Mike Diamond
In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry.

Freelance
2023
as Sebastian Earle
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the mi...

Chupa
2023
as Richard Quinn
While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifeti...

Willow: Behind the Magic
2023
as Self - 'Allagash'
Featuring the breakout stars from the series and returning legends, this documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the makin...

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
as Christian Slater (archive footage)
A portrait of the actress Winona Ryder, the great muse of nineties cinema, who, although she has had an atypical and somewhat erratic career, has alwa...

LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales
2021
as Ren (voice)
Poe Dameron and BB-8 must face the greedy crime boss Graballa the Hutt, who has purchased Darth Vader’s castle and is renovating it into the galaxy’s ...

A Journey to Sundance
2021
as Self
'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all over the world, as well as my own struggles to fi...

We Can Be Heroes
2020
as Tech-No
When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.

QT8: The First Eight
2019
as Self (archive footage)
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...

The Public
2019
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from th...

The Wolf: True Alpha
2018
as The Wolf
HP's latest entrant in "The Wolf" series once again pits Slater's character against The Fixer.

The Wife
2018
as Nathaniel Bone
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
2018
as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot (voice)
It’s batter up at Belle Reve and that can only mean that Amanda Waller, the penitentiary’s cold and calculating warden, has a mission that only the da...

The Summit
2017
as Dereck McKinley
At a summit for Latin American presidents in Chile where the region's geopolitical strategies and alliances are in discussion, Argentine president Her...

The Lion Guard: The Rise of Scar
2017
as Ushari (voice)
Kion and the Guard take on the ultimate challenge when a ruthless enemy returns to the Pride Lands and threatens the Circle of Life. With the arrival ...

Heroes Manufactured
2017
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary following Canadian artists and their ability to break into the comic book industry while dealing with fandom and the craze of comic book...

The Wolf
2017
as The Wolf
If you're not taking your printer security seriously, someone else might be. From director Lance Acord comes The Wolf starring Christian Slater

King Cobra
2016
as Stephen (Bryan Kocis)
It’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult ...

Mr. Robot_dec0d3d.doc
2016
as Self - Mr. Robot
In Mr. Robot Decoded, creator Sam Esmail, stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater, real-life hacker Jeff Moss and other experts open up about how the sh...

The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Hans Reiser
Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of ...

Hot Tub Time Machine 2
2015
as Choozy Doozy Host
After their first adventure with the Hot Tub Time Machine, Lou and Nick are living very well off their ill-gotten gains, while Jacob still cannot rely...

Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
2014
as Various (voice) (archive sound)
This DVD release features six Christmas special episodes from Robot Chicken's hilariously outrageous 6 seasons, plus comes loaded with holiday-themed ...

Way of the Wicked
2014
as Henry
Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange...

Ask Me Anything
2014
as Paul Spooner
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an ano...

Stan Lee's Mighty 7
2014
as Lazer Lord (voice)
When seven aliens crash land in the desert night, Stan Lee discovers that they are being chased by a top-secret military force led by Mr. Cross and hi...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013
as Joe's Father
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac...

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
as Joe's Father
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

Stranded
2013
as Col. Gerard Brauchman
The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Ca...

Assassins Run
2013
as Michael
Maya becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband, a successful American businessman, is killed.

The Power of Few
2013
as Clyde
Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected ...

Bullet to the Head
2012
as Marcus Baptiste
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Guns, Girls and Gambling
2012
as John Smith
The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a cha...

Assassin's Bullet
2012
as Robert
In Assassin's Bullet, Slater plays Robert Diggs, a black ops agent who comes to work for Ambassador Ashdown (Hunger Games star Donald Sutherland), tra...

Soldiers of Fortune
2012
as Craig Mackenzie
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.

Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
2012
as Governor Bramlette
In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmercifully attempt to destroy each other's loved ones.

Dawn Rider
2012
as John
A gripping story of vengeance and passion set in the American West. When the father of gunslinger John Mason is shot to death by masked bandits, Mason...

El Gringo
2012
as Lieutenant West
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000—and a bloody past—finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.

Rites of Passage
2012
as Delgado
Anthropology students and their professor experience terror when they visit a sacred burial ground.

Freaky Deaky
2012
as Skip Gibbs
Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

Playback
2012
as Frank Lyons
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been ...

Back To The Sea
2012
as Jack (voice)
When little fish Kevin is swept up in a net and taken from his home in the vast oceans to the small glass fish tank of a restaurant, he must find a wa...

The River Murders
2011
as Agent Vuckovitch
The sins of the past are not forgotten in this chilling suspense thriller. When the first body was discovered, it seemed a coincidence. But now homici...

Without Men
2011
as Gordon
In a small and remote Latin American mountain village, all the men are recruited to fight in the country's civil war. Left to fend for themselves, the...

Sacrifice
2011
as Father Porter
A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister ...

Lies & Illusions
2009
as Wes Wilson
When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes ...

Dolan's Cadillac
2009
as Dolan
Robinson, a once peaceful, law-abiding school teacher, has turned into an obsessed vengeance machine, intent on killing the man who murdered his wife ...

Igor
2008
as Dr. Schadenfreude's Igor (voice)
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science communi...

Naked Movie
2008
as Self
When director Sam Henry Kass gets little help from his agent in procuring funding for his flick, he turns to a porn king for bucks. Soon, however, Kas...

Love Lies Bleeding
2008
as Pollen
A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.

He Was a Quiet Man
2007
as Bob Maconel
An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his newfound status as a hero after he ends up stoppin...

The Ten Commandments
2007
as Moses (voice)
This vibrantly animated feature recounts the biblical epic of the Hebrew prophet Moses and the Ten Commandments. Led by the word of God, Moses challen...

Slipstream
2007
as Ray / Matt Dobbs / Patrolman #2
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder my...

Crossing the Line
2006
as Narrator
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected ...

Bobby
2006
as Daryl Timmons
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assas...

Hollow Man II
2006
as Michael Griffin
After the mysterious death of scientist Dr. Devin Villiers, Det. Frank Turner and his partner are assigned to protect Villiers' colleague, who reveale...

Robot Chicken's Christmas Special
2005
as Composite Santa Claus (voice)
The special Christmas episode featured the second season short "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", along with the first season shorts "Unsolved Case Fil...

The Deal
2005
as Tom Hanson
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.

The Deal
2005
Executive Producer
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.

Alone in the Dark
2005
as Edward Carnby
Edward Carnby is a private investigator specializing in unexplainable supernatural phenomena. His cases delve into the dark corners of the world, sear...

Pursued
2004
as Vincent Palmer
A fast rising hi-tech executive must protect his career and family from the ruthless tactics of a homicidal corporate headhunter.

Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2004
as Winston Churchill
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I...

Mindhunters
2004
as J.D. Reston
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very lo...

The Good Shepherd
2004
as Daniel Clemens
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.
Jimmy Neutron: Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion
2003
as Jet Fusion (voice)
Jimmy is enlisted as a spy by the Big Top Secret Organization. His mission: find and rescue Agent X - who turns out to be Jimmy's movie hero, Jet Fusi...

Masked and Anonymous
2003
as Crew Guy #1
A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on ...

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
as Self
In 2002, a 60-year old McCartney refocused the attention on his musicianship, staging a massive live concert in Cleveland, Ohio. The superstar, who we...

Windtalkers
2002
as Sergeant Peter Henderson
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II ...

Hard Cash
2002
as Taylor
Released from prison, an infamous thief and his new crew pull of a brilliant robbery but then become embroiled with a corrupt FBI agent when they disc...

Zoolander
2001
as Christian Slater
Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's...

Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Trevor Allen Finch
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds t...

3000 Miles to Graceland
2001
as Hanson
It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all th...

Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
2001
as Self
Documenting the making of Heathers with interviews from cast and crew members.

The Contender
2000
as Reginald Webster
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. W...

Very Bad Things
1998
as Robert Boyd
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a d...

Very Bad Things
1998
Executive Producer
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a d...

Basil
1998
as John Mannion
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to pl...

Basil
1998
Co-Producer
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to pl...

Hard Rain
1998
as Tom
An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.

Hard Rain
1998
Co-Producer
An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
as Self
Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.

Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
1998
as Self
Chris Farley was one of the most popular comedians of the 1990s, thanks to his hilarious skits on "Saturday Night Live," which featured Matt Foley, ev...

Merry Christmas, George Bailey!
1997
as Harry Bailey / Sam Wainwright
Performance of the 1947 Lux Radio version of "It's a Wonderful Life", taped live in the historic Pasadena Playhouse as a benefit for the Pediatric AID...

Julian Po
1997
as Julian Po
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out ...

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
as Easily Fooled Security Guard (uncredited)
As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop me...

Museum of Love
1996
Director
Dumped by his girlfriend, a young unemployed actor decides to transform his house into a "museum" of their relationship.

Broken Arrow
1996
as Riley Hale
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warhea...

Bed of Roses
1996
as Lewis Farrell
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies c...

Catwalk
1995
as Self
A documentary following Christy Turlington and other models during spring fashion week in Milan, Paris and New York.

Murder in the First
1995
as James Stamphill
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

Interview with the Vampire
1994
as Malloy
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Jimmy Hollywood
1994
as William
Jimmy Alto is an actor wannabe who stumbles into the role of a lifetime. He becomes a vigilante crime-fighter, aided by his sidekick William, who has ...

True Romance
1993
as Clarence Worley
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Untamed Heart
1993
as Adam
Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busbo...

FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1992
as Pips (voice)
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destr...

Where the Day Takes You
1992
as Social Worker (uncredited)
King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts a...

Kuffs
1992
as George Kuffs
George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed ...

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
as Excelsior Communications Officer
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an...

Mobsters
1991
as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.....

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
as Will Scarlett
Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. ...

Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991
as Self
U.S. network TV special surveying the history of Robin Hood in popular culture, emphasizing the 1991 film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". Interviews ...

Pump Up the Volume
1990
as Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for ...

Young Guns II
1990
as Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh
Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of ...

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990
as Andy (segment ‘Lot 249’)
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

The Wizard
1989
as Nick
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.

Beyond the Stars
1989
as Eric Michaels
Teenager Eric, the son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon, is determined to become an as...

Desperate for Love
1989
as Cliff Petrie
The story of murder among a trio of teenagers after a boy breaks up with a girl and she runs into the arms of his vulnerable best friend.

Gleaming the Cube
1989
as Brian Kelly
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him die...

Heathers
1988
as Jason 'J.D.' Dean
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by...

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Junior
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by ...

La rosa dei nomi
1987
as Self
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of ...

The Name of the Rose
1986
as Adso of Melk
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...

Twisted
1985
as Mark Collins
One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they ne...

The Legend of Billie Jean
1985
as Binx Davy
Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one da...

Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983
as Walt Willey
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and as...

Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
1981
as uncredited
An adaptation of William Gillette's play about the great Detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Young Guns III
N/A
as Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh
Plot kept under wraps. Third installment of the 'Young Guns' film franchise.

Last Call of a Dying Hawk
N/A
as Jason Grey-Cameron
Jason Grey-Cameron, a vandal and shoplifter falls into an unlikely allyship with Riko, head of the local crime scene. Jason soon becomes enchanted by ...
The Hole
N/A
Owen, a successful professor living abroad in South Korea, is bedridden after a devastating car accident that killed his wife, Sandy. He is left under...