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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936),[2] better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. Contents [hide] 1 Personal life 2 Acting career 2.1 Television 2.2 Theater 2.3 Film 3 Director 4 Honors 5 Filmography 5.1 Actor 5.2 Director 5.3 Sundance 6 Independent films 7 Political activity 8 References 9 External links [edit]Personal life Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. (née Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr. (November 19, 1914 – April 2, 1991),[3] a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island.[4][5][6] He has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry.[7][8][9] Redford attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California, where he was classmates with Don Drysdale, and was a teammate on the Van Nuys High School baseball team with Drysdale. He graduated in 1954 and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher and a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. While there, he worked at the famous restaurant/bar The Sink. He lost the scholarship due to excessive drinking,[10] possibly fueled by the death of his mother, which occurred when Redford was 18. He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes in theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. On August 9, 1958, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him. They had four children: David James "Jamie", Shauna, Amy Redford, and Scott Anthony Redford. Scott – their first child – was born September 1, 1959, and died of sudden infant death syndrome on November 17, 1959, at age 2½ months. He is buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Lola and Robert divorced in 1985. He has five grandchildren: Dylan and Lena Redford (of son Jamie), Mica and Conor Schlosser (of daughter Shauna) and Eden August (of daughter Amy).[11] In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shares his Sundance, Utah, home.[12] [edit]Acting career [edit]Television Redford's career – like that of almost all major stars who emerged in the 1950s – began in New York, where an actor could find work both in television and on stage. Starting in 1959, he appeared as a guest star on numerous programs, including The Untouchables, Whispering Smith, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, Playhouse 90, Tate and The Twilight Zone, among others. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (ABC, 1962). One of his last television appearances was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry. [edit]Theater Redford's Broadway debut was in a small role in Tall Story (1959), followed by parts in The Highest Tree (1959) and Sunday in New York (1961). His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). [edit]Film Redford in Barefoot in the Park. While still largely an unknown, Redford made his screen debut in War Hunt (1962), co-starring with John Saxon in a film set during the last days of the Korean War. This film also marked the debuts of Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. In Inside Daisy Clover (1965) he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her for Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966) — again as her lover. The same year saw his first teaming with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the big screen version of Barefoot in the Park (1967) and were again co-stars in Pollack's The Electric Horseman (1979). Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image and turned down roles in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate. Redford found the property he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film was a huge success and made him a bankable star and cemented his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Redford suffered through a few films that did not achieve box office success during this time, including Downhill Racer (1969); Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969); Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), and The Hot Rock (1972). But his overall career was flourishing with the critical and box office hit Jeremiah Johnson (1972); the political satire The Candidate (1972); The Way We Were (1973); and The Sting (1973), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. During the years 1974-76, exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office name. His hits included The Great Gatsby (1974), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and Three Days of the Condor (1975). The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula and scripted once again by Goldman, was a landmark film for Redford. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter – the Watergate scandal – also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes. He also starred in the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and the baseball film The Natural (1984). Redford has continued his involvement in mainstream Hollywood movies, though projects became fewer. Out of Africa (1985) was where he made it to the nominations to the Oscars. He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the political thriller The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie, someone else with a strong interest in politics. Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentary Sacred Planet (2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. In The Clearing (2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream. Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto 'Che' Guevera, and his friend Alberto Granado. It also explored political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. With five years spent in the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his role in director Lasse Hallstrom's An Unfinished Life (2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez) — whom he blames for his son's death — and the granddaughter he never knew he had when they fled an abusive relationship. The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichéd and overly sentimental. Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he signed on to direct and star in an update of The Candidate. [edit]Director Redford at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the lens. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. His first outing as director was in 1980's Ordinary People, a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Redford did not direct again until The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest. The Milagro Beanfield War is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas, in northern New Mexico) overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out because of tax increases. Other directorial projects have included the period family drama A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the exposé Quiz Show (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. Redford handpicked Morrow for his part in the film (Morrow's only high-profile feature film role to date), because he liked his work on Northern Exposure. Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). Beside his directing and producing duties, Redford continued acting. He played opposite Meryl Streep in Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winning Out of Africa, Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal, and Kristin Scott Thomas in The Horse Whisperer, which he also directed. Redford also continued work in films with political context, such as Havana (1990), Sneakers (1992), Spy Game (2001), and Lions for Lambs (2007). [edit]Honors U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees, from left to right, actress Julie Harris, actor Robert Redford, singer Tina Turner, ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell and singer Tony Bennett on December 4, 2005, during the reception in the Blue Room at the White House. He attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an Honorary Degree in 1983. In 1995, Redford received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards.[citation needed] In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[13] In December 2005, he received honors at the Kennedy Center for his contributions to American culture. The Honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television.[citation needed] In 2008 he was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life."[citation needed] The University of Southern California (USC) School of Theater announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. According to the school's web site, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and empowering young people."[14] Robert Redford received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Brown University at the 240th Commencement exercises on May 25, 2008.[15] He also spoke during the ceremonies. On 14th October 2010, he was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. [edit]Filmography [edit]Actor Year Film Role Notes 1960 Tall Story Basketball Player 1962 War Hunt Private Roy Loomis Nothing in the Dark Harold Beldon The Twilight Zone Episode 1965 Inside Daisy Clover Wade Lewis Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious Captain Hank Wilson 1966 This Property Is Condemned Owen Legate The Chase Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves 1967 Barefoot in the Park Paul Bratter 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Sundance Kid BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role also for Downhill Racer and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Deputy Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role also for Downhill Racer and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Downhill Racer David Chappellet BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role also for Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1970 Little Fauss and Big Halsy Halsy Knox 1972 Jeremiah Johnson Jeremiah Johnson The Candidate Bill McKay The Hot Rock John Archibald Dortmunder 1973 The Sting Johnny Hooker Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor The Way We Were Hubbell Gardiner 1974 The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby 1975 Three Days of the Condor Joseph Turner/The Condor The Great Waldo Pepper Waldo Pepper 1976 All the President's Men Bob Woodward 1977 A Bridge Too Far Major Julian Cook 1979 The Electric Horseman Norman 'Sonny' Steele 1980 Brubaker Henry Brubaker 1984 The Natural Roy Hobbs 1985 Out of Africa Denys Finch Hatton 1986 Legal Eagles Tom Logan 1990 Havana Jack Weil 1992 A River Runs Through It Narrator Voice Only Uncredited Also Producer/Director Sneakers Martin "Marty" Bishop Incident at Oglala Narrator 1993 Indecent Proposal John Gage La Classe américaine Steven 1996 Up Close & Personal Warren Justice 1998 The Horse Whisperer Tom Booker Also Producer/Director 2001 Spy Game Nathan D. Muir The Last Castle Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin 2004 The Clearing Wayne Hayes Sacred Planet Narrator 2005 An Unfinished Life Einar Gilkyson 2006 Charlotte's Web Ike Voice Only 2007 Lions for Lambs Dr. Stephen Malley Also Producer/Director [edit]Director Year Film Notes 1980 Ordinary People Academy Award for Best Director Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film Golden Globe Award for Best Director 1988 The Milagro Beanfield War 1992 A River Runs Through It Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director 1994 Quiz Show Nominated — Academy Award for Best Director Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Film Nominated — Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director 1998 The Horse Whisperer Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director 2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance 2007 Lions for Lambs 2010 The Conspirator [edit]Sundance Mount Timpanogos, panoramic view With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah called "Timp Haven," which was renamed "Sundance". Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot near the ski area. He founded the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City, Utah, 30 miles (48 km) north of the Sundance ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received recognition from the industry as a place to open films. In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees.[16] The name Sundance comes from his character, the Sundance Kid. In addition, Redford owns a celebrated restaurant called Zoom, located on Main Street in the former mining town of Park City. [edit]Independent films Since founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, in 1981, Redford has been deeply involved with independent film. Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided much-needed support for independent filmmakers. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable TV channel devoted to airing independent films—the Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996. [edit]Political activity Redford with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson in 2009. Redford is politically liberal, and has supported environmentalism, Native American rights, and the arts. Most of his federal political contributions have been to Democrats (61%) or advocacy groups (34.6%), such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America.[17] However Redford has on occasion also supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful 1990 race for Utah's 3rd congressional district seat.[17][18] Redford also supported Gary R. Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor, and is currently the Governor of Utah. He is an avid environmentalist and is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. With my beloved Natalie Wood:

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Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940)[6] is an American film and stage actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman and Robert Redford. She has also established herself as an author, publishing several children's books. Career She studied at Santa Rosa College for a year, where she had her introduction to acting in a production of The King and I. She dropped out of the course and moved to San Francisco to study acting.[7] She joined The Actors Workshop and was with them for three years[8] working as an understudy;[9] for one role in Jean Genet's The Balcony she appeared nude on stage,[9] and in 1964 she was cast by John Houseman as Cordelia in a production of King Lear.[10][11] While at the Workshop, she began acting bit parts in television series in Los Angeles to earn extra money.[7] She was brought to Hollywood by Metro, dropped, then picked up by Universal.[12] Her first television role was in Sam Benedict in 1962.[8] In 1964, Ross appeared in episodes of The Virginian and Gunsmoke, and made her first film, Shenandoah, followed by a starring role in Mister Buddwing with MGM in 1965.[8] In 1966, she appeared in the episode "To Light a Candle" of Barry Sullivan's NBC Western The Road West. That year, she had her first major role in the film Games.[7] Then came her breakout roles in two of cinema's most popular films, Elaine in The Graduate (1967) and Etta Place in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).[13] After appearing as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend Elaine in The Graduate, a part for which she received an Oscar nomination[14] and a Golden Globe as most promising female newcomer,[2] she said that "I'm not a movie star... that system is dying and I'd like to help it along."[7] She also won a BAFTA for her part as an Indian in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969).[15] She turned down several roles before accepting the part in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and then turned down several more roles,[16] including a part in Towering Inferno.[17] She was dropped by Universal in the spring of 1969 for refusing to play a stewardess in Airport, a role that went to Jacqueline Bisset.[12] She preferred stage acting, returning to the small playhouses in LA for much of the 1970s.[16] One of her best-known roles came in 1975's The Stepford Wives, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress.[18] She reprised the role of Etta Place in a 1976 ABC TV movie, Wanted: The Sundance Woman,[13] and then won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress for her part in 1977's Voyage of the Damned;[19] as of 2008, she is the only winner to not get an Oscar nomination for the same performance. She starred in several TV movies from the late 1970s,[20] including Murder by Natural Causes in 1979 with Hal Holbrook, Barry Bostwick and Richard Anderson,[citation needed] Rodeo Girl in 1980,[5] Murder in Texas in 1981,[17] and the 1980s television series The Colbys opposite Charlton Heston as Francesca Scott Colby.[21] More recently, she played Donnie's therapist in the 2001 film Donnie Darko.[22] [edit]Personal life Ross was born in Hollywood, California, when her father was in the Navy. He had also worked for the Associated Press.[23] Her family later settled in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco. She graduated from Las Lomas High School. Ross was a keen horse rider in her youth,[7] and she was friends with Casey Tibbs, a rodeo rider.[24] She has lived in Malibu, California since the late 1960s. While at the Actors Workshop in the early 1960s, she lived above a grocer's shop on Stockton Street,[9] and she was married to fellow actor Joel Fabiani for six months.[1][2] Ross was married to the triple Oscar-winning cinematographer Conrad Hall from June 1970[3] to 1975, after meeting him on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.[16] They separated in 1973.[25] She was married to Gaetano Lisi (known as Tom) from 1975, after they met when he was a chauffeur and technician on The Stepford Wives.[26][4] She is currently married to actor Sam Elliott, whom she met when they co-starred in the 1978 film, The Legacy (film). The couple married in 1984 and have a daughter, Cleo Rose,[27] born 1984, who is now an aspiring musician in Malibu.[28] [edit]Credits [edit]Selected filmography Shenandoah, (1965), as James Stewart's character's daughter-in-law. The Singing Nun (1966), as Nicole Mister Buddwing, (1966), as Janet, with James Garner Games (1967), directed by Curtis Harrington, with James Caan and Simone Signoret[7] The Graduate (1967), as Elaine Robinson, a college student who discovers that her mother and boyfriend have had an affair Hellfighters (1968), as Tish Buckman, playing John Wayne's character's daughter.[7] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), as rural schoolteacher Etta Place in the 1890s involved with the eponymous outlaws Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), as Lola, lover of Willie Boy (Robert Blake) Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972), as a nameless woman who falls in love with a tap-dancing magician. They Only Kill Their Masters (1972), as a murder suspect The Stepford Wives (1975) as Joanna Ingalls Eberhart, a suburban housewife who discovers a terrible secret about her community. Voyage of the Damned (1976) The Legacy (1978) The Betsy (1978) opposite Laurence Olivier The Swarm (1978) The Final Countdown (1980), as the secretary to a U.S. Senator in the 1940s Wrong Is Right (1982) Red Headed Stranger (1986) The Shadow Riders (1982) (TV) as Kate Conagher (1991) as Evie Teale. She co-wrote the script with her husband and Jeffrey M. Meyer.[29] Home Before Dark (1997) as Rose, the aunt of a girl whose mother attempts suicide.[30] Donnie Darko (2001), as a psychiatrist treating the title character (Jake Gyllenhaal), a teen with disturbing visions Eye of the Dolphin (2007), the grandmother of Alyssa (Carly Schroeder)[31] [edit]Books Grover, Grover come on over! The Teeny, Tiny Farm. Bear Island. The Baby Animals' Party. The Fuzzytail Friends' Great Egg Hunt. The Little Quiet Book. (with Jean Hirashima, Random House) The Little Noise Book. (with Jean Hirashima, Random House) Open the Door, Little Dinosaur. (with Norman Gorbaty) Twinkle, Twinkle The Little Bug. (with Tom Cooke) Sweetie and Petie. (with Lisa McCue) From 'The Graduate' - beautiful and sexy: I'm SO in love with her... Original 'The Stepford Wives' poster: