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Christopher Lawford Biography

Christopher Lawford is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on March 29, 1955 in Santa Monica, California, United States. The member in the Kennedy family, he is a well-known writer as well as activist and actor. He played a long-running character in the show All My Children and also played in General Hospital.

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Christopher Kennedy Lawford (March 29, 1955 – September 4, 2018) was an American author, actor, and activist. He was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, and son of actor Peter Lawford and Patricia “Pat” Kennedy Lawford, who was the sister of President John F. Kennedy. He graduated from Tufts University in 1977 and earned a law degree from Boston College in 1983. He later earned a master’s certificate in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University, and was a lecturer on drug addiction.

In 1969, the year after his uncle Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, when Lawford was 14, he was introduced to LSD by his peers at school. He was addicted to alcohol, cocaine, uppers, downers, and “any other drugs he could buy” for the next 17 years. During that time, he was “in and out of hospitals and arrested three times”, including in 1980, for impersonating a doctor in Aspen, Colorado in order to purchase prescription medication. The charges were later dropped when Lawford completed his probation. In 2000, Lawford was diagnosed with hepatitis C, which he contracted due to his years of drug use.

He got married to Jeannie Olsson on the 28th of October in 1984. they would divorce in the year 2000. They had three children: David, Savannah, and Matthew. He later got married Mercedes Miller in 2014 up to his death in 2018.

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Lawford chose to become, like his father, an actor in the mid 1980s, after realizing that a law career would not suit him. He performed in commercials in Boston for two years, and then he and his wife moved to Southern California in 1988 so that he could pursue an acting career. He worked in film and television for over 20 years. His acting credits included the sitcom Frasier and the drama The O.C. . In 2003, he had a brief stint on the soap opera General Hospital, but was best known for playing Philip “Charlie” Brent, Jr. on All My Children from 1992-1995.

Christopher Lawford Net Worth

Christopher Lawford is one of the richest Movie Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christopher Lawford's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He made his film debut on screen in the year 1988 in the roles on screen in The Suicide Club, Mr. North as Michael Patrick Ennis III as well as Spellbinder in the role of Phil.

He appeared in films of note like Thirteen Days as William Ecker and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as Brewster’s Aide.

Lawford was born in Santa Monica, California on March 29, 1955, at Saint John’s Health Center. He was named for Saint Christopher and because his mother liked the name. He was the eldest child and only son of actor and “Rat Pack” member Peter Lawford (1923–1984) and Patricia “Pat” Kennedy Lawford (1924–2006), who was President John F. Kennedy’s sister. His three younger sisters were Sydney Lawford McKelvy (born 1956), Victoria Pender (born 1958), and Robin Lawford (born 1961). Lawford described himself as a “second-string Kennedy” because he did not get as much attention as his cousins. His parents divorced in 1966; Patricia Lawford moved from California to New York City with her son and daughters.

Lawford briefly attended Fordham Law School, but dropped out after a few months due to his dependency on heroin. In April 1984, the same year his father Peter Lawford died at the age of 61, after years of alcohol and drug abuse, Lawford’s cousin and best friend David Kennedy, and third oldest son of Robert Kennedy, who also battled substance abuse issues, died of a drug overdose at the age of 28. David’s death prompted Lawford to seek professional help for his issues. In 1986, at the age of 30, Lawford entered rehab and got treatment for his drug addiction, and remained clean and sober until his death in 2018.

Lawford had small roles in films such as The Russia House, a 1990 spy thriller co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Connery, and the 1991 rock-music film The Doors, which was directed by Oliver Stone. Lawford played a Navy officer in the 2000 film Thirteen Days, a drama about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1997, Lawford had a role in the independent comedy Kiss Me Guido as the gay lover of the main character. He also had a small role in Terminator 3, co-starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, who directed Lawford in a 1990 episode of the HBO anthology series Tales from the Crypt (“The Switch”) and was married to Lawford’s cousin Maria Shriver at the time. In 2005, Lawford appeared in the motorcycle racing film The World’s Fastest Indian, co-starring Anthony Hopkins.

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Before his parents’ divorce, Lawford attended St. Martin of Tours Elementary School in Los Angeles, where at the age of 8, he was informed about his uncle John F. Kennedy’s assassination. After moving to New York City with his mother, he attended the Middlesex School, a prep school in Concord, Massachusetts. He graduated from Tufts University in 1977 and earned a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School in 1983. He later earned a master’s certificate in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University, and lectured on drug addiction at Harvard, Columbia University, and other colleges.

Lawford traveled around the U.S. speaking about his experiences with addiction for 20 years. He was a public health campaigner, and worked with the World Health Organization (WHO), the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, and was a public advocacy consultant to Caron Treatment Centers, on organization that ran treatment programs. In 2001, Lawford founded and was CEO of the Global Recovery Initiative, a not-for-profit organization that “seeks to remove barriers and provide opportunities for people in recovery”.

Who is Christopher Lawford Dating?

According to our records, Christopher Lawford married to Mercedes Miller , Lana Antonova , Jeannie Olson . As of December 1, 2023, Christopher Lawford’s is not dating anyone.

Lawford was married and divorced three times. He had three children, David Christopher Kennedy Lawford (named after his cousin David Kennedy), Savannah Rose Lawford, and Matthew Peter Valentine Lawford with his first wife Jeannie Olsson, an ad-sales assistant for New York Magazine. They divorced in 2000. In 2005, he married Russian actress Lana Antonova; they divorced in 2009. In 2014, Lawford married yoga instructor Mercedes Miller in Hawaii. At the time of his death in 2018, he had been in relationship with his girlfriend Kyla Resch since August 2017.

Facts & Trivia

Christopher Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Christopher Lawford celebrates birthday on March 29 of every year.

Lawford wrote several books “that described his efforts to recover from drug addiction”. In 2005, he published his memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, in which he recounted decades of “better living through chemistry”. In 2009, he wrote Moments of Clarity, a compilation of first-person recollections by famous addicts, including Ed Begley, Jr., Alec Baldwin, Buzz Aldrin, Richard Dreyfuss, Martin Sheen, Judy Collins, and musician and federal prisoner Dejuan Verrett. The book was dedicated to Lawford’s cousin David Kennedy, and another cousin, Patrick J. Kennedy, wrote the introduction. Lawford told interviewer Connie Martinson that although writing Moments of Clarity was “difficult” and he did not want to do it, the book was “meant to happen”.

What happened to Christopher Lawford?

On September 4, 2018, Lawford died of a heart attack in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was living with his girlfriend and working to open a recovery center. He had a medical emergency at a yoga studio and later died.

How old is Christopher Lawford?

63 years (1955–2018)

What happened Peter Lawford?

Peter Lawford, 61, a British-born actor was as well known for the family he married into and the friends he made as he was for his nearly 60 films and scores of television appearances, died of cardiac arrest yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Where is Peter Lawford buried?

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary, Los Angeles, CA

Is Peter Lawford still alive?

December 24, 1984

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