Christopher Walken Net Worth: Christopher Walken is an American actor, director, and writer who has a net worth of $50 million. Born in Queens, New York, in 1943, Christopher Walken has appeared in more than 100 different movie and TV shows.

Christopher Walken speaks with a modified Queens, New York accent that he has developed over his years of performing. ... He was born in Queens, NY, and sounds like it. Even in movies like 'Annie Hall' in which he is playing someone from Wisconsin, his accent places him in the NYC area.

There's a reason why Christopher Walken dances so much in his movies. The Academy Award-winning actor doesn't only fit into a multitude of genres when it comes to his 60-odd-year filmography, he makes it a point to fit dancing into nearly every part he's ever played.

In 1964, he changed his first name to Christopher at the suggestion of Monique van Vooren, who had a nightclub act in which Walken was a dancer and who believed the name suited him better than Ronnie (a pet form of his given name, Ronald), which he was credited as until then.