Christopher Lawford

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christopher Lawford
Occupation	Movie Actor
Date Of Birth	Mar 29, 1955(1955-03-29)
Age	69
Date Of Death	2018-09-04
Birthplace	Santa Monica
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Pisces

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.

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.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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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.

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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