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Few actors' cinematic journeys can be encapsulated in a single sentence — and even fewer in a single word. Yet that’s what Owen Wilson has managed to accomplish in his 30-year career. From squalor to Sundance, his rise to prominence began in the late ‘90s where he turned from mischievous indie darling to charming, subdued stardom. In the last two decades, there are few who have been able to match his “Wow Factor.”
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