Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1937) is a famous award winning American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, and philanthropist.

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Born in Santa Monica, California to Charles Robert Redford, Sr. (an Irish Protestant immigrant from the British Isles) and Martha W. Hart (from Texas).

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Redford is known for his roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, The Sting, The Natural, The Way We Were, Out of Africa, The Great Gatsby, and many others. Redford directed the films Ordinary People, Quiz Show, The Legend of Baggar Vance, The Horse Whisperer, The Milagro Beanfield War, and A River Runs Through It, he was also a producer on all of them except for Ordinary People.

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In 1980, the first film Redford directed, Ordinary People, won him the Academy Award for Directing; his 1994 film Quiz Show was nominated for the award but lost to Forrest Gump.

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With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salary from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford purchased the ski resort just outisde Park City, Utah called Timphaven. He renamed it the Sundance Resort, and not long after, portions of the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, was shot in the area. He then founded the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received some recognition from the industry as a place to option films. The name Sundance comes from his character the "Sundance Kid." In addition he owns a celebrated restaurant called Zoom, located on Main Street in the former mining town of Park City.

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