Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for
Bottle Rocket (1996),
Rushmore (1998), and
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004),
The Darjeeling Limited (2007),
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009),
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and
The French Dispatch (2021). Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy
Midnight in Paris (2011) as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2014 he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's
Inherent Vice, and Peter Bogdanovich's
She's Funny That Way.