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In a 2009 interview, Atkins acknowledged his past struggle with alcoholism and stated that he had been sober for 22 years.

They have two children, Grant Bomann and Brittney Bomann. From 1985 till 2007, he was married to actress Lyn Barron. However, Atkins owns his own outdoor sports company, Rocky River Outdoor Products, and has patented his own fishing lure, the Christopher Atkins Strike Jacket E.F.L. In the following decades, he only appeared in B-films and episodes of minor TV series.

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He also appeared as Peter Richards in the TV series Dallas (1983-1984), but his success soon petered out. For his performance, he won the 1983 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. Next he played a student, who secretly moonlights as a late-night strip-club dancer in A Night in Heaven (John G. Atkins also posed nude for Playgirl in 1982.

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He had a hit record with the song 'How Can I Live Without Her', from The Pirate Movie (1982).

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Hal Erickson at AllMovie comments: 'Atkins was living proof that the 'beach-boy' type perpetuated by the likes of Troy Donahue had not died in the 1960s.'Īfter his successful film debut, Christopher Atkins appeared with another teen idol, Kirsty McNichol, in The Pirate Movie (Ken Annakin, 1982) an update of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance. Atkins was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male. Cinematographer Nestor Almendros received an Academy Award nomination for his poetic work on The Blue Lagoon. The film grossed over $58 million with a production cost of $4.5 million., and was the ninth most popular 1980 film at the United States and Canada box office. The Blue Lagoon was a success, although several critics disliked the film. For the film, he dropped his last name Bomann and used his middle name, Atkins, as his last name. Atkins appeared nude (including frontal nudity) in the film, and spent much of the film wearing a loincloth. He was chosen out of 4,000 to star as one of the two children, who are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. Wikipedia reports that he first started a modeling career. According to IMDb, he did not have any interest in acting until a friend of his pressured him to go down to the audition for the role of Richard Lestrange in The Blue Lagoon (Randal Kleiser, 1980). From the age of 16, Chris was a scuba diver and he also taught sailing. His parents divorced during his childhood. His father Donald Bomann was a real estate agency owner and business executive, and his mother Bitsy Nebauer was a science teacher. Sadly, this early success proved to be a case of 'single luck'.Ĭhristopher Atkins was born in 1961 in Rye, New York, USA as Christopher Atkins Bomann. Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon (Randal Kleiser, 1980).īlonde and muscular American actor Christopher Atkins (1961) became a teen idol with his debut role opposite Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon (1980). American postcard by The American Postcard Co.