Christopher Walken and wife of 57 years make rare red carpet appearance
Christopher Walken and Georgianne Walken in New York City on Nov. 12, 2026Credit: Stephanie Augello/Variety via GettyKey points
Christopher Walken and wife Georgianne Walken hit the red carpet on Thursday, Nov. 12.
The couple attended the Museum of Modern Art’s 2026 Annual Film Benefit in New York City.
The event honored Steven Spielberg, with whom Christopher worked on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can.
Christopher Walken and his wife Georgianne Walken are hitting the red carpet.
The Severance star, 83, and his 82-year-old spouse walked the red carpet at the Museum of Modern Art’s 2026 Annual Film Benefit in New York City on Thursday.
The Walkens previously stepped out together in June 2024 at a Tribeca Film Festival screening of Christopher’s 1978 classic The Deer Hunter, for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Christopher and Georgianne first met in 1963, when they were both performing in a touring production of West Side Story, which saw them play the on-stage couple Riff and Graziella. They eventually married in 1969.
After briefly appearing on screen with her husband in the 1983 sci-fi thriller Brainstorm, Georgianne began working as a casting director in the late 1980s. Alongside her partner Sheila Jaffe, Georgianne cast over 90 film and TV projects between 1989 and 2007. Her most prominent credit is The Sopranos, for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Casting for a Series in 1999. She also made a brief appearance on the show in season 6.
Georgianne Walken and Christopher Walken in New York City on Nov. 18, 1980Credit: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
As part of Walken/Jaffe, Georgianne also helped cast Entourage, Bedazzled, But I’m a Cheerleader, Monkeybone, The Mothman Prophecies, Slums of Beverly Hills, Hysterical Blindness, Welcome to Mooseport, and Soul Plane. She also cast Julian Schnabel’s Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic Basquiat, which featured Christopher in a small supporting role.
MoMA’s 18th Annual Film Benefit honored Steven Spielberg, with whom Christopher worked on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, which earned him another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The event featured remarks from Tom Cruise, who collaborated with the filmmaker on Minority Report and War of the Worlds, as well as a performance of West Side Story’s “Somewhere” by Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Anita in Spielberg’s 2021 adaptation of the classic musical.
Many of the other attendees had also worked with Spielberg on various projects, including Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, who all acted in the director’s most recent film Disclosure Day; Jurassic Park’s Jeff Goldblum; E.T.’s Drew Barrymore; The Terminal’s Zoe Saldaña; The Fabelmans’ Michelle Williams; Saving Private Ryan’s Ed Burns; and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’s Cate Blanchett.
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Other attendees included Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Lorne Michaels, Riley Keough, Stephen Colbert, and Bruce Springsteen, who performed a surprise rendition of “Dancing in the Dark.”
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