Val Kilmer Overview

A distant cousin of the poet Joyce Kilmer, Val Kilmer was born in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, the second of the three sons to a real-estate developer, and a homemaker. When Kilmer was nine years old, his parents divorced, and his mother moved to Arizona, while Kilmer stayed behind in the town of Chatsworth, California with his father; Kilmer's much-remarked intensity and sincerity was evident at an early age. He failed his first audition for a television commercial... See All