Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18, 1936), is an award-winning American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, famous for his blonde, perennially boyish handsomeness, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades.
Biography
Redford was born in Santa Monica, California to Charles Robert Redford, Sr., a milkman turned accountant, and Texas-born Martha W. Hart. He has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford graduated from Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California in 1954 and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher on the baseball team, and a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He lost the scholarship due to adolescent drinking, fueled in part by the death of his mother, when Redford was eighteen. Redford was later a painting student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and took classes in theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
Robert Redford is politically liberal, and has supported environmentalism and Native American rights.
Redford married Lola Van Wagenen on September 12, 1958; the couple, who had four children - Scott (born 1959 and died shortly after Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), Shauna (born November 15, 1960), David James (born May 15, 1962), and Amy (born October 22, 1970) - divorced in 1985. His companions since have included actress Sonia Braga (during 1988), Kathy O'Rear (from the late 1980s to 1995) and German painter Sibylle Szaggars (1996-current). Redford has four grandchildren.
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Filmography
2006 Charlotte's Web Ike
2005 An Unfinished Life Einar Gilkyson
2004 The Clearing Wayne Hayes
2001 Spy Game Nathan D. Muir
The Last Castle Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
1998 The Horse Whisperer Tom Booker
1996 Up Close & Personal Warren Justice
1993 Indecent Proposal John Gage
1992 A River Runs Through It Narrator
Sneakers Martin "Marty" Bishop
Incident at Oglala Narrator
1990 Havana Jack Weil
1986 Legal Eagles Tom Logan
1985 Out of Africa Denys Finch Hatton
1984 The Natural Roy Hobbs
1980 Brubaker Henry Brubaker
1979 The Electric Horseman Norman 'Sonny' Steele
1977 A Bridge Too Far Major Julian Cook
1976 All the President's Men Bob Woodward
1975 Three Days of the Condor Joseph Turner/The Condor
The Great Waldo Pepper Waldo Pepper
1974 The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby
1973 The Sting Johnny Hooker aka Kelly
The Way We Were Hubbell
1972 Jeremiah Johnson Jeremiah Johnson
The Candidate Bill McKay
The Hot Rock John Archibald Dortmunder
1970 Little Fauss and Big Halsy Halsy Knox
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Sundance Kid
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Deputy Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper
Downhill Racer David Chappellet
1967 Barefoot in the Park Paul Bratter
1966 This Property is Condemned Owen Legate
The Chase Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
1965 Inside Daisy Clover Wade Lewis
Directing
Ordinary People (1980)
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Quiz Show (1994)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
