Today actor Tim Robbins celebrates his 76th birthday.
He was born on October 16, 1958 in West Covina, California and raised in New York's Greenwich Village, having a long and successful career as an actor, director, screenwriter, and film and theater producer.
He plays in the films "The River of Secrets" by Clint Eastwood, "The Secret Life of Words" by Isabelle Croix, "Earth in Flames" of Philip Noyce, "The Player" and "Short Cuts" by Robert Altman, "The Shawshank Redemption" to Frank Darabont, "General Power of Attorney" of the Coen Brothers, "War of the Worlds" of Steven Spielberg, "Panic on Arlington Road" by Mark Pellington, "Paragraph 46" by Michael Winterbottom, "Human Nature" by Michel Gondry, "Five Corners" by Tony Bill, "Jacob's Ladder" of Adrian Lynn, "Bull Durham" of Ron Shelton.
For his work as an actor, Robbins has won many awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor in "River of Secrets", Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and Golden Globe for Best Actor for "The Player". He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for Bob Roberts and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for The Shawshank Redemption.
As a director, Robbins distinguished himself with ``When the Storm Comes,'' which he also wrote and produced, and which won Best Film and Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona, and the National board of critics for special achievement in motion picture art in the United States.
"The Death Row Comes", which he also wrote and produced, won numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Actress for Susan Sarandon, four awards at the Berlin IFF, 4 Oscar nominations, including the most good director, Golden Globe nomination for screenplay, as well as other awards.
His first film "Bob Roberts" won a bronze award at the Tokyo International Festival, and Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor at the Boston Film Festival.
Robbins is also the artistic director of Actors’ Gang, a theater company founded in 1982 that has over 80 productions and over 100 awards. His plays have been staged in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. His latest play, Embedded, played to sold-out audiences for 4 months at the Public Theater in New York before moving to Riverside Studios in London and embarking on a national tour across the US. He most recently directed Actors Gang in their shockingly modern and highly successful adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, which over the past 2 years. has visited over 40 countries on 4 continents.
Robbins' stage adaptation of "The Death Row Comes" is represented in over 140 universities across the country. The rights to perform the play were exclusively given to educational institutions until 2014. To acquire the rights to the play, universities must have two faculties, other than theater arts, that offer courses on the death penalty. All over the country and the world over the past 4 years. symposia, lectures and debates have been held in conjunction with theatrical productions leading to a significant increase in dialogue and education on this important issue.
Robbins is also proud to sponsor educational programs with the Actors Gang, which provides arts education to students of all grades in the Los Angeles area. The troupe has been working for the past 3 years. having also provided theater workshops for inmates of the Los Angeles prison system.
Robbins lives in New York, and until 2009 he was married to actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he has two sons - Miles and Jack.
Source: cinefish.bg