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Tim Robbins biography
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Tim Robbins is born
Born October 16, 1958 in West Covina, California, Tim Robbins was the son of folk singer Gil Robbins; raised in Greenwich Village, Tim Robbins made his performing debut alongside his father on a duet of the protest song "Ink Is Black But the Page Is White." At the age of 12 Robbins joined the Theatre for the New City, remaining a member for the next seven years; Tim Robbins also joined his high-school drama club, an experience which afforded Tim Robbins his first opportunities to direct for the stage. After briefly attending the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Tim Robbins relocated to Los Angeles to study at UCLA; there Tim Robbins also joined the Male Death Cult, an intramural softball team comprised of his fellow drama students. After graduating, the teammates reunited to form the Actor's Gang, an avant-garde theater troupe noted for productions of works by the likes of Bertolt Brecht and Alfred Jarry.Tim Robbins on television
After guest-starring on television series including Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, in 1984 Robbins made his film debut with a bit part in the feature Toy Soldiers. his first starring role came in 1985's teen sex romp Fraternity Vacation. Small roles in hits including Top Gun and The Sure Thing followed before a breakout performance as a doltish fastballer in Ron Shelton's hit 1988 baseball comedy Bull Durham. An onscreen romance with co-star Susan Sarandon soon expanded into their offscreen lives as well, and the twosome became one of Hollywood's most prominent couples. A series of starring roles in films including 1989's misbegotten Erik the Viking and 1990's Jacob's Ladder followed before Altman's 1992 showbiz satire The Player won Robbins "Best Actor" honors at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year, Tim Robbins wrote, directed, starred and performed the music in Bob Roberts, a mock-documentary brutally parodying right-wing politics.Tim Robbins on Short Cuts
Upon appearing in Altman's 1993 ensemble piece Short Cuts, Robbins enjoyed starring roles in four major 1994 releases -- The Hudsucker Proxy, I.Q., Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter), and the Oscar-nominated The Shawshank Redemption. However, his most acclaimed project to date was 1995's Dead Man Walking, a gut-wrenching examination of the death penalty, which earned Tim Robbins an Oscar nomination for "Best Director;" Sean Penn, portraying a death row inmate, garnered a "Best Actor" nomination while Sarandon won "Best Actress" honors. After a three-year hiatus from acting, Robbins returned to the screen in 1997 with the comedy Nothing to Lose; Tim Robbins soon announced plans to mount a film adaptation of Cradle Will Rock, based on a Marc Blitzstein play first staged by Orson Welles six decades earlier. The film, which examined the relationship between art and politics in 1930s America, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. That same year, audiences could view Robbins as a clean-cut suburban terrorist opposite Jeff Bridges in Arlington Road.Tim Robbins Oscar winner
Tim Robbins won an Oscar as best supporting actor for his role in the 2003 Clint Eastwood drama Mystic River. Robbins grew up in Greenwich Village in New York, where Tim Robbins got involved with the theater at the age of 12. After high school Tim Robbins moved to Los Angeles and studied drama and acting, co-founding a theater group called The Actors' Gang. Tim Robbins began working in television and movies in the early '80s and had roles in The Sure Thing (1985, starring John Cusack) and Top Gun (1986, starring Tom Cruise) before making it big as the goofy pitcher Nuke LaLoosh in the jovial baseball flick Bull Durham (1988). Dramatic roles in Jacob's Ladder (1990) and The Player (1992) showed his skill as an actor, and his mock-documentary Bob Roberts (1992) showed Tim Robbins was no slouch as a writer and director. Tim Robbins has made two other films as writer/director, Dead Man Walking (1995, starring Sean Penn) and Cradle Will Rock (1999), and several films in lead and supporting roles, including The Shawshank Redemption (1994, with Morgan Freeman), Arlington Road (1999), High Fidelity (2000) and The Truth About Charlie (2002).Tim Robbin and Cradle Will Rock
Most recently Robbins wrote, produced and directed Cradle Will Rock, which opened to critical praise including an award for Special Achievement in Filmmaking from the National Board of Review and the Best Film and Best Director Awards from the 2000 Sitges Film Festival. The film, which debuted to standing ovations at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, chronicles the real-life drama behind the Orson Welles production of Mark Blitzstein's 1930's musical. The ensemble cast includes Hank Azaria, Ruben Blades, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Cary Elwes, Phillip Baker Hall, Cherry Jones, Angus MacFayden, Bill Murray, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro and Emily Watson.Tim Robbins film director
As a filmmaker, Robbins directed, produced and wrote the screenplay to the highly acclaimed film, Dead Man Walking. Adapted from the book by Sister Helen Prejean, Robbins received an Academy Awarde nomination for Best Director along with four awards at the Berlin Film Festival, the Christopher Award and two Humanitas Awards. The film also earned a nomination for Best Actor for Sean Penn, as well as the Academy Awarde for Best Actress for Susan Sarandon. This followed his directing and screenwriting debut for the award-winning political satire, Bob Roberts. Robbins, who also starred and co-wrote the songs, was lauded for his work on the "mockumentary" about a dubious right-wing candidate's race for the Senate. Bob Roberts was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and wonTim Robbins best film
three awards including Best Film at the Boston Film Festival. Robbins also executive produced The Typewriter, The Rifle and the Movie Camera, a documentary about filmmaker Sam Fuller, which won the 1996 Cable ACE Award for Best Documentary.Tim Robbins at the Cannes Film Festival
As an actor, Robbins received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the amoral studio chief in Robert Altman's The Player, a performance that earned Tim Robbins the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. his starring performance in Bob Roberts also earned Tim Robbins a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.Tim Robbins in Arlington Road
Other recent acting performances include Mark Pellington's Arlington Road with Jeff Bridges and Joan Cusack, Nothing To Lose with Martin Lawrence, and Frank Darabont's Oscare-nominated The Shawshank Redemption with Morgan Freeman. Among Robbins' other notable performances are Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Pret-A-Porter opposite Julia Roberts, Tony Bill's Five Corners with Jodie Foster and John Turturro, the Coen Brothers' The Hudsucker Proxy opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh, Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder, Ron Shelton's Bull Durham with Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner and Brian DePalma's Mission To Mars, co-starring Gary Sinise and Don Cheadle. Robbins will next be seen in Human Nature.Tim Robbins and the Actors Gang
In 1981, Robbins co-founded the Actor's Gang, the highly-acclaimed and respected Los Angeles theatre ensemble dedicated to the production of wild, original and provocative theatre. The Actor's Gang has received numerous Dramalogue, L.A. Weekly and Ovation Awards, and in 1988, received the prestigious Margaret Hartford Award for "continued excellence." Robbins himself was honored with the LA Weekly Award for his direction of the gang's debut production, a midnight performance of Ubu Roi, and earned a nomination for "Best Director" from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for the group's production of Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan. As producer, Robbins is responsible for production with the Actor's Gang and still serves as Founding Artistic Director with the group.Tim Robbins son of Gil Robbins
Son of folksinger Gil Robbins of 'The Highwaymen', the young Tim was surrounded by politics and theatre while growing up in New York's Bohemian Greenwich Village. Tim Robbins returned to California to study drama at UCLA and, after his graduation in 1981, founded the 'Actors Gang', a politically radical and experimental avant-garde theatre troupe.Tim Robbins started in TV
After TV work in the early 1980s, it wasn't till his performance as a doltish pitcher in Ron Shelton's 1988 baseball comedy 'Bull Durham' that Robbins achieved real notice, while an off-screen romance with co-star Susan Sarandon has since blossomed into one of Hollywood's most prominent couplings.Tim Robbins and Robert Altman
In 1992 Tim Robbins starred in Robert Altman's showbiz satire, 'The Player', winning Best Actor honours at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year, Tim Robbins wrote, directed, starred and performed the music in 'Bob Roberts', a mocumentary brutally parodying right-wing politics.Tim Robbins and Dead Man Walking
His most acclaimed directorial project to date was 1995's 'Dead Man Walking', an emotive examination of the death penalty, which earned Tim Robbins an Oscar nomination for Best Director; Sean Penn, portraying a death row inmate, garnered a Best Actor nomination, while Sarandon won Best Actress honours. After a three-year break from acting, Robbins returned to the screen in 1997 with the comedy 'Nothing to Lose'.No stranger to controversy and a keen political activist, Robbins has often used his celebrity status to champion his.His causes. As co-presenters of the Academy Awards in 1993, Robbins and Sarandon seized the opportunity to publicise the plight of Haitian AIDS victims interned by the US at Guantanamo Bay. More recently, Robbins attended the massive anti-war rally, in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, in London on the 15th February 2003. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon currently reside in New York City with their two children, Jack Henry and Miles.
