The actor who is a car lover and upset his fans with his death in a car accident: Who is Paul Walker?

Paul Walker was born on September 12, 1973 in Glendale, California. His mother, Cheryl, was a fashion model and his father, Paul William Walker III, was a sewer contractor and former amateur boxer who was a two-time Gold Glove champion. He spent most of his youth in the Sunland neighborhood of Los Angeles and graduated from Village Christian School in 1991. Walker then attended several public colleges, majoring in marine biology.

Beginning modeling in the late 1980s, Walker began his acting career with low budget B grade films, including Monster In The Closet (1987) and Tammy and the T-Rex (1994). In 1993, he briefly appeared in the soap opera The Young and The Restless. He started to gain fame with these movies and TV series.

He made his debut in 1998 with his role in Meet the Deedles, which received scathing criticism. He was subsequently well received in Pleasentville, in which he played a basketball player on the high school team opposite Reese Witherspoon. Between 1999 and 2001, she acted in films such as he She's All That (1999) and Varsity Blues (1999), which appealed to young audiences. 

In 2001, Walker's breakthrough role came when he co-starred with Vin Diesel in the action movie "The Fast and the Furious." The film was commercially successful. The movie also made Walker a movie star and lead actor. He won the MTV Movie Award for Best Screen Crew in 2002 for his performance.

Selected as the most beautiful man of the month by MostBeautifulMan.com in February 2001, Walker was among the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People Magazine in 2002. Walker also portrayed the same role in the series' sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious. In 2006, he starred in the action movie Running Scared and the Antarctic adventure movie Eight Below. Disney's Eight Below, which is also a family movie, grossed more than $24 million in its first four days of release. This movie was highly appreciated and received positive reviews.

He re-starred with Vin Diesel in Fast & Furious, the fourth film in the series, which was released in July 2009. Police officer Brian O'Conner in the Fast and the Furious series is a very popular character, and also a role that brought Paul Walker great fame. The movie was the highest-grossing movie in the series to date. His performance was praised as he reprized his role in the fifth and sixth films in the later commercially successful series.

Walker died with his friend on November 30, 2013 in Santa Clarita, California, when his friend's vehicle lost control due to excessive speed and crashed into a tree. Paul Walker, who died in a traffic accident at the age of 40, saddened his fans.

Walker, who had a great break with the Fast and the Furious series, acted in many action adventure films after this movie. One of the reasons he was given the character of Brian O'Conner, which he played in the Fast and the Furious series, was because Paul had a high degree of passion for cars. Thanks to this passion, it was thought that the film reflected this well to the audience. He was a professional car racing driver, and thanks to this skill, it didn't take as much to do stuntman during the Fast & Furious series as the other players.

Following his death in 2013, films starring Walker were released; thriller Hours (2013), action movie Brick Mansions (2014), remake of French movie District 13 (2004). Furious 7, originally scheduled for release in 2014, was pulled back to recreate Walker's likeness. The movie was later released in 2015, and Walker won the Best Film Actor: Action award at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards.

Private life

Walker, who lives on Huntington Beach in Santa Barbara, California and enjoys surfing, has a daughter from his ex-girlfriend named Meadow Rain, who lives with his mother in Hawaii. A Brazilian Jujitsu maker, Walker also owned a hunting dog, a Chesapeake Bay puppy, and a horse named Cowboy. 

His godfather is Vin Diesel, with whom Walker shares a close bond. Walker was also close friends with Fast & Furious co-star Tyrese Gibson. Also, Walker was a complete car enthusiast.