Robert Redford

This article is about the American actor and filmmaker. For the American virologist and medical researcher, see Robert R. Redfield.

Robert Redford
Redford in 2012
Born
Charles Robert Redford Jr.

(1936-08-18) August 18, 1936 (age 88)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Actor
  • filmmaker
Years active1958–2023
WorksFull list
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
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    (m. 1958, divorced)​
  • Sibylle Szaggars
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    (m. 2009)​
Children4, including James and Amy
AwardsFull list

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014.[1][2]

Appearing onstage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, with appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1961 and The Twilight Zone in 1962. His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). He gained success as a leading man in films such as Barefoot in the Park (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and The Candidate (1972). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the crime caper The Sting (1973). He continued to star in such films as The Way We Were (1973), All the President's Men (1976), and The Electric Horseman (1979).

Redford made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People (1980), which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. During this time, he starred in films such as Brubaker (1980), The Natural (1984), and Out of Africa (1985). He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. In 1981 Redford cofounded the Sundance Resort and Film Institute. His later film roles include All Is Lost (2013), Truth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). Redford portrayed Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

  1. ^ Gibbs, Nancy. "Editor's Letter: The Ties That Bind the TIME 100". Time. Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  2. ^ "Robert Redford". Time. April 23, 2014. Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2014.