Christopher Lawford

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Christopher Kennedy Lawford (born March 29, 1955 in Santa Monica, California, USA), a nephew of John F. Kennedy, cousin-in-law of Arnold Schwarzenegger (appearing in two of his films, including Terminator 3), and son of Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, is a Hollywood actor.

After many secondary roles in films for over a decade, he played a minor role in the 2000 film Thirteen Days, as Commander William Ecker of the US Navy. He first achieved extensive recognition in the role of Charlie Brent on the popular soap opera All My Children in the early 1990s, playing opposite Susan Lucci. He continues to make guest appearances in numerous TV shows and mostly secondary film roles.

Lawford is a 1983 graduate of Boston College Law School, although he has never practiced law, and the author of Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption (William Morrow 2005, ISBN 0-06-073248-2), an autobiography.

[edit] Insight on Castro

Lawford told Australian interviewers that he has been trying to make a film about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis from Cuba's perspective but that he has been stymied by the U.S. blockade.

Lawford told the Australian newspaper that he sat next to Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana during a 2001 screening of Thirteen Days, a film about the missile crisis. "It was incredible," he told the newspaper. "I went there and sat next to the guy my uncles were trying to kill. But President Castro believes if President Kennedy had lived, the embargo would have been lifted and they would have normalized relations." In a separate interview with the ABC, Lawford said Castro "got up at the end of the film and he said, 'You've made a great film, but you've ignored Cuba, now you have to make a film of what was happening here in Cuba during those thirteen days." Lawford said that he had returned to Cuba six times in an effort to do just that "but as you know we have an embargo against Cuba, which is one of the greatest foreign policy tragedies in the history of the United States."

Source: News Story from IMDB news briefings.