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Bitter pill: Showtime passes on Tim Robbins drama
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Shawshank Coming To The Stage
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IMDB - Found Jul. 2, 2009 ... in 1994, is scheduled to premiere in London's West End in September, with Kevin Anderson in the role Tim Robbins played in the movie and Reg E... Anderson and Cathey to Star in West End Shawshank Redemption - Playbill Anderson And Cathey Led 'SHAWSHANK' To Play At West End's Wyndham, ... - Broadway World Explore All |
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Tim Robbins Biography
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Tim Robbins
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| Tim Robbins | |
 Robbins at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | Timothy Francis Robbins October 16, 1958 (age 50) West Covina, California |
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| Occupation | actor, director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Domestic partner(s) | Susan Sarandon (1988–present) |
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Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins (born 16 October 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Nuke in Bull Durham, Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, and as Dave in Mystic River, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Early life
Robbins was born in West Covina, California, and raised in New York City, the son of Mary (née Bledsoe), an actress, and Gilbert Robbins, a musician, publishing executive, nightclub owner, and folk singer.12 Robbins has two sisters, Adele and Gabrielle, and a brother, David. Robbins was raised a Roman Catholic.3 He moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age while his father pursued a career as a member of the folk music group The Highwaymen. Robbins started doing theater at age twelve and joined the drama club at Stuyvesant High School.4 He spent two years at SUNY Plattsburgh and then returned to California to study at the UCLA Film School.
Career
Robbins's acting career began at Theater for the New City, where he spent his teenage years in their Annual Summer Street Theater and also played the title role in a musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. After graduation from college in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors' Gang, an experimental theater group, in Los Angeles with actor friends from his college softball team (including John Cusack). He also took small parts in films, such as the role of frat animal "Mother" in Fraternity Vacation (1985) and "Lt. Sam 'Merlin' Wells" in the iconic fighter pilot film Top Gun (1986). He played in The Love Boat, as a young version of one of the characters in retrospection about Second World War. His breakthrough role was as pitcher Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh in the 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham.
He received critical acclaim and won the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his starring role as an amoral movie executive in Robert Altman's 1992 film The Player. He made his directorial and screenwriting debut with 1992's Bob Roberts, a mockumentary about a right-wing senatorial candidate. Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption (1994), which was based on Stephen King's short story.
Robbins has written, produced, and directed several films with strong social content, such as the critically acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead Man Walking (1995), starring Sarandon and Sean Penn. The film earned him a Oscar nomination for Best Director. His next directorial effort was 1999's Depression-era musical Cradle Will Rock. Robbins has also appeared in mainstream Hollywood thrillers, such as 1999's Arlington Road (as a terrorist) and 2001's Antitrust (as a malicious computer tycoon), and in comical films such as The Hudsucker Proxy, Nothing to Lose, and High Fidelity. Robbins has also acted in and directed several Actors' Gang theater productions.
Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River (2003), as a man traumatized from having been molested as a child. In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard. His most recent acting roles include a temporarily blind man who is nursed to health by a psychologically wounded young woman in The Secret Life of Words and an Apartheid torturer in Catch a Fire.
In early 2006, Robbins directed5 an adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984, written by Michael Gene Sullivan6 of the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. The show opened at Actors' Gang, at their new location at The Ivy Substation in Culver City, California. In addition to venues around the United States, it has played in Athens, Greece, the Melbourne International Festival in Australia and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Robbins is considering adapting the play into a film version.7
Robbins appeared in 2008's The Lucky Ones, with co-star Rachel McAdams. Shooting took place in Illinois, including scenes filmed at Mojo's Music in Edwardsville, Illinois.
Robbins has just finished writing and directing a new pilot for Showtime called Possible Side Effects, about a family that runs a pharmaceutical company.8 It will premiere later this year.
Personal life
Robbins lives in New York City. Since 1988, Robbins has been in a relationship with actress Susan Sarandon whom he met on the set of Bull Durham. They have two sons: Jack Henry (born May 15, 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born May 4, 1992). Robbins, like Sarandon, is a lapsed Catholic,9 and they both share liberal political views. At the height of 6' 5" (195 cm), Robbins is one of the tallest actors in Hollywood. 10
Robbins, cousin of Natural Law Party guru Timothy Robbinscitation needed, supported Ralph Nader's 2000 Presidential campaign and appeared on stage in character as Bob Roberts during the "Nader Rocks the Garden" rally at Madison Square Garden. Robbins is a prominent spokesperson for anti-globalisation, a frequent critic of former U.S. President George W. Bush, and a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq. In December 2007, he endorsed and campaigned for trial lawyer and senator John Edwards in the U.S. presidential election, 2008.11
In 2003, a 15th anniversary celebration of Bull Durham at the National Baseball Hall of Fame was cancelled by Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey. Petroskey, who was on the White House staff during the Reagan administration, told Robbins that his stance helped to "undermine the US position, which could put our troops in even more danger".12 Durham co-star Kevin Costner, a self-described Libertarian, defended Robbins and Sarandon, saying "I think Tim and Susan's courage is the type of courage that makes our democracy work. Pulling back this invite is against the whole principle about what we fight for and profess to be about".12 Robbins later said that Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, and Jack Valenti were the only major Hollywood figures that stood up for his free speech rights in this case and noted that all three men are either Republicans or very conservative Democrats, adding that he felt there could be common ground between individuals with different political beliefs.
Robbins is an avid baseball and hockey fan. He supports the New York Mets and the New York Rangers and frequently attends games. In 1995, Robbins did a series of promos for MSG Network advertising upcoming Rangers games, and has also narrated a documentary on the 1969 Mets for SNY. Robbins is also a passionate ice hockey player who participates regularly in the New York adult recreational hockey community.
Filmography
Notes
- ^ "Tim Robbins Biography". http://www.filmreference.com/film/34/Tim-Robbins.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
- ^ "Ancestry of Tim Robbins". http://www.wargs.com/other/robbins.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
- ^ Wattenberg, Daniel (2001-03-19). "No Nukes - how director Tim Robbins incorporates conspiracy into plots of his films". National Review. Archived from [unknown the original] on 2001-03-19. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_5_53/ai_72007022.
- ^ "Inside the Actors Studio - Guests - Tim Robbins". Bravo. 1999-12-05. http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Tim_Robbins. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
- ^ "1984". Archived from the original on 2007-07-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20070703092024/http://www.theactorsgang.com/Shows/1984.htm. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
- ^ "Velina Brown and Michael Gene Sullivan". http://www.michaelgenesullivan.com/. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
- ^ Morris, Clint (2006-01-15). "Tim Robbins returns to 1984". http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060115_tim_robbins_returns_to_1984.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
- ^ Possible Side Effects at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Labor of Love: With Dead Man Walking, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins Go From Oscar Outlaws to Golden Couple by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh". Entertainment Weekly. 1996-03-22. Archived from [unknown the original] on 1996-03-22. http://www.geocities.com/timrobbinspage/interviews/014.html.
- ^ "Biography for Tim Robbins". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000209/bio. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
- ^ Political Punch
- ^ a b "Tim Robbins: Hall of Fame violates freedom". 2003-04-13. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/12/1050069116929.html. Retrieved on 2007-11-01.
External links
- Tim Robbins at the Internet Movie Database
- Robbins' blog at The Huffington Post
- Text of the luncheon speech given by Tim Robbins to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2003
- Video Interview with Tim Robbins on AMC's Shootout
- Embedded Live, the play and Embedded /Live, the DVD
- See also, Embedded Live, the interview, from CBC News: The Hour
- Interview from On The Media, February 20, 2004
- Interview from Media Matters, June 5, 2005
- Tim Robbins' federal campaign contribution report
- TheAge.com Article: "Tim Robbins: Hall of Fame Violates Freedom"
- Audio interview of Tim Robbins by Stephanie Miller on The Stephanie Miller Show about Robbins' play, 1984
- Audio from Tim Robbins' keynote address at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters conference
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