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Christian Slater

Christian Slater (born Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins on August 18, 1969 in New York) is an American actor. His mother is Hollywood casting director Mary Jo Slater , who gave her Star Trek-obsessed son a cameo in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).

On August 11, 1997, Slater was arrested by police in Los Angeles and charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of battery after Slater, drunk and high on heroin, punched his girlfriend in the face at a party. He was sentenced to three months in prison, serving 59 days for good behavior.

Slater is a father of two: his son born in 1999 and his daughter in 2001.

In 2000, he was married to reporter Ryan Haddon . In 2003, Haddon was arrested for beating up Slater at a Hard Rock Cafe while on a trip to Las Vegas and he was later receiving stitches. That year in 2005, Slater filed for divorce from Haddon for spousal abuse.

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