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Doug Walker

Douglas Darien Walker is an American film critic, comedian, YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the satirical film review series Nostalgia Critic, wherein the title character reviews nostalgic media in an exaggeratedly aggressive manner. After an initial run on YouTube, Walker co-created the website That Guy with the Glasses in 2008, where he and the series gained wider popularity. The site also presented other media critics who created similar content, including Lindsay Ellis and Angry Joe. Walker and his series returned to YouTube in 2014.

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Douglas Darien Walker (born November 17, 1981) is an American film critic, comedian, YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the satirical film review series Nostalgia Critic, wherein the title character reviews nostalgic media in an exaggeratedly aggressive manner. After an initial run on YouTube, Walker co-created the website That Guy with the Glasses (later merged into Channel Awesome) in 2008, where he and the series gained wider popularity. The site also presented other media critics who created similar content, including Lindsay Ellis and Angry Joe. Walker and his series returned to YouTube in 2014.

Early life and education

Walker was born Douglas Darien Walker on November 17, 1981, the son of Barney Walker (b. 1946), a naval officer and musician, and Sandra Ruth (née Polkow) Walker (1947–2016), a therapist. Both parents, as well as Walker's older brother Rob (b. 1979), would later appear regularly in his videos. Due to his father's career, Walker was born on a naval base in Naples, Italy, and moved frequently as a child, spending parts of his childhood in Rhode Island, Washington, and Jacksonville, Florida, before moving to the Chicago, Illinois area in his teen years.

Walker attended and graduated from Northern Illinois University, majoring in mass communication and minoring in visual art, also serving as an editor and cartoonist for the school newspaper.

Nostalgia Critic

After graduating from college, Walker worked as an illustrator and janitor. He started making videos on the-then fairly new video-sharing site YouTube in his spare time. Although his early Nostalgia Critic videos were popular, Walker claims his rise to Internet fame first came from the success of his 5 Second Movies edits. Walker has stated that the Nostalgia Critic character is primarily inspired by Daffy Duck and the Queen of Hearts, as well as by comedians Lewis Black, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Murray.

Influences

Walker has cited many influences on his acting and style of comedy, including Monty Python, The Simpsons, Lewis Black, Tom and Jerry, Mel Brooks, South Park, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Murray, Animaniacs, Louis C.K., Robin Williams, and especially Looney Tunes (particularly Daffy Duck).

Personal life

Walker has been married to clinical social worker and therapist Robin Poage since 2012. In October 2025, Walker revealed he had been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome since 2023, which was a result of getting shingles.

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