Robert Redford
Born August 18, 1936 (Age: 89)
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Santa Monica, California, USA
Biography
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. 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. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford.
In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. 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. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
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Filmography
A Journey to Sundance
2023
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as Self
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Age: 86
Avengers: Endgame
2019
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as Alexander Pierce
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Age: 82
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
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as Forrest Tucker
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Age: 82
Pete's Dragon
2016
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as Mr. Meacham
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Age: 79
Truth
2015
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as Dan Rather
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Age: 79
A Walk in the Woods
2015
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as Bill Bryson
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Age: 79
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
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as Alexander Pierce
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Age: 77
All Is Lost
2013
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as Our Man
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Age: 77
The Company You Keep
2012
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as Jim Grant
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Age: 76
Casting By
2012
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as Self
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Age: 76
Buck
2011
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as Self
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Age: 74
Lions for Lambs
2007
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as Dr. Stephen Malley
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Age: 71
Charlotte's Web
2006
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as Ike the Horse (voice)
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Age: 70
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
2006
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as Self
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Age: 69
An Unfinished Life
2005
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as Einar Gilkyson
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Age: 69
The Clearing
2004
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as Wayne Hayes
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Age: 67
Sundance 20
2002
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as Himself
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Age: 65
Spy Game
2001
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as Nathan Muir
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Age: 65
The Last Castle
2001
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as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
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Age: 65
The Horse Whisperer
1998
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as Tom Booker
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Age: 61
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997
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as Self / Jeremiah Johnson
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Age: 61
Up Close & Personal
1996
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as Warren Justice
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Age: 59
Made in the USA
1993
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as Self
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Age: 57
Indecent Proposal
1993
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as John Gage
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Age: 56
A River Runs Through It
1992
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as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 56
Sneakers
1992
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as Bishop
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Age: 56
Havana
1990
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as Jack Weil
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Age: 54
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
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as Self
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Age: 54
Legal Eagles
1986
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as Tom Logan
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Age: 49
Out of Africa
1985
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as Denys George Finch Hatton
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Age: 49
The Natural
1984
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as Roy Hobbs
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Age: 47
Brubaker
1980
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as Brubaker
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Age: 43
The Electric Horseman
1979
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as Sonny
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Age: 43
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome
1978
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as Narrator
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Age: 41
A Bridge Too Far
1977
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as Maj. Julian Cook
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Age: 40
All the President's Men
1976
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as Bob Woodward
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Age: 39
No Image
Following the Tundra Wolf
1975
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as Narrator
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Age: 39
Three Days of the Condor
1975
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as Joseph Turner
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Age: 39
The Great Waldo Pepper
1975
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as Waldo Pepper
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Age: 38
No Image
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1974
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as Self / Narrator (voice)
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Age: 38
The Great Gatsby
1974
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as Jay Gatsby
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Age: 37
The Sting
1973
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as Johnny Hooker
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Age: 37
The Way We Were
1973
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as Hubbell Gardner
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Age: 37
Jeremiah Johnson
1972
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as Jeremiah Johnson
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Age: 36
The Candidate
1972
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as Bill McKay
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Age: 35
The Hot Rock
1972
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as John Dortmunder
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Age: 35
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
1970
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as Big Halsy
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Age: 34
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
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as Sundance Kid
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Age: 33
This Property Is Condemned
1966
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as Owen Legate
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Age: 29
The Chase
1966
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as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
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Age: 29
The Iceman Cometh
1960
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as Don Parritt
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Age: 24
Tall Story
1960
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as Basketball Player (uncredited)
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Age: 23
No Image
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960
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as Blue Jacket
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Age: 23