Mallika Sherawat

Mallika Sherawat (Hindi: मल्लिका शेरावत, born Reema Lamba in Karnal, Haryana, India) is an Indian actress and model. She is frequently featured in the Indian media as a sex symbol.

Early life

Mallika Sherawat's birth name is Reema Lamba; she says that she adopted the screen name of "Mallika", meaning "empress", to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema. "Sherawat" is her mother's maiden name. She is from a Jat family. She has stated that she uses her mother's maiden name because of all the support her mother has provided for her. She went to school at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. She has obtained a degree in Indian philosophy from Miranda House, Delhi University.


Career

Sherawat's screen debut was in Lak Tunoo, a music video by Surjit Bindrakhia. She attracted notice with her appearance in the 2003 film Khwahish. In 2004, she starred in Murder, a film inspired by Hollywood's Unfaithful. She received a nomination for Best Actress at the Zee Cine Awards for her performance in Murder. The film went on to become one of the biggest hits of the year.
Since then, Sherawat has been known for expressing her opinions in public, as well for the reaction to some of her statements.
Her performance in the 2006 film Pyaar Ke Side Effects co-starring Rahul Bose won her praise from around the industry, and the film also did moderately well at the box office.
Her first release in 2007 was Himesh Reshammiya's Aap Ka Suroor - The Real Love Story, in which she appeared in an "item number". Her last release of 2007 was Welcome which also did well at the box office receiving blockbuster status.
Her 2008 releases were Ugly aur Pagli and Mann Gaye Mughal e Azam. Both films were not successful at the box office and were critically panned. She also played a small role in Dasavathaaram.
In 2006, Sherawat acted in The Myth co-starring with Jackie Chan and also made an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival to promote the film.



Hollywood

Sherawat finished shooting for a Hollywood film named Hisss starring Irrfan Khan and directed by Jennifer Lynch. The film is in post-production stage. Hisss is going to be premiered at Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. On 14 August 2009, Sherawat received a career recognition Honorary Citizenship of Los Angeles for her career achievements and charitable efforts. Sherawat finished shooting for another Hollywood film Love, Barack directed by Doug McHenry. It is a romantic comedy set during Barack Obama's campaign for the US Presidency. Love, Barack is set to be screened at the Cannes film festival in May 2010.



Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
2002 Jeena Sirf Merre Liye Seema (Special appearance) credited as Reema Lamba
2003 Khwahish Lekha Khorzuvekar
2004 Kis Kis Ki Kismat Meena Madhok
2004 Murder Simran Saigal
2005 Bachke Rehna Re Baba Padmini a.k.a. Paddu/Alka/Meera
2005 The Myth Indian Princess Chinese film
2006 Pyaar Ke Side Effects Trisha
2006 Shaadi Se Pehle Sania
2006 Darna Zaroori Hai
2007 Guru Jhumpa — The Dancer Item number Mayya Mayya
Special Appearance
2007 Preeti Eke Bhoomi Melide Item number Kannada film
2007 Aap Ka Suroor - The Real Love Story Ruby Special Appearance
2007 Fauj Mein Mauj Sunehri Dhanda postponed
2007 Preeti Yeke Bhoomi melide Item Girl Kannada
2007 Welcome Ishika
2008 Dasavathaaram Jasmine Tamil film
2008 Ugly Aur Pagli Kuhu Released
2008 Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam Shabnam Released
2010 Hisss Post Production
2010 Love Barack Aretha Gupta Post Production
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Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan (Urdu: شاہ رُخ خان, Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान; born 2 November 1965), sometimes credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian actor and a prominent Bollywood figure, as well as a film producer and television host. Khan began his career appearing in several television serials in the late 1980s. He made his film debut in Deewana (1992). Since then, he has been part of numerous commercially successful films and has earned critical acclaim for many of his performances. Khan has won thirteen Filmfare Awards for his work in Indian films, seven of which are in the Best Actor category.
Khan's films such as Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Chak De India (2007), Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) remain some of Bollywood's biggest hits, while films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Veer-Zaara (2004), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) and My Name Is Khan (2010) have been top-grossing Indian productions in the overseas markets, making him one of the most successful actors of India. Since 2000, Khan branched out into film production and television presenting as well. He is the founder/owner of two production companies, Dreamz Unlimited and Red Chillies Entertainment. Khan is today considered to be the world's most successful movie star, with a fan following numbering in the billions and a net worth estimated at over Rs 2500 crore (US$ 540 million). In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.

Biography

                                                                                                                            Shahrukh Khan and family

Khan was born in 1965 to Muslim parents of Pathan descent in New Delhi, India. His father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India. According to Khan, his paternal grandfather was originally from Afghanistan. His mother, Lateef Fatima, was the adopted daughter of Major General Shah Nawaz Khan of the Janjua Rajput clan, who served as a General in the Indian National Army of Subash Chandra Bose. Khan's father came to New Delhi from Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar before the partition of India, while his mother's family came from Rawalpindi, British India. Khan has an elder sister named Shehnaz.
Growing up in Rajendra Nagar neighbourhood, Khan attended St. Columba's School where he was accomplished in sports, drama, and academics. He won the Sword of Honour, an annual award given to the student who best represents the spirit of the school. Khan later attended the Hansraj College (1985–1988) and earned his Bachelors degree in Economics (honors). Though he pursued a Masters Degree in Mass Communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, he later opted out to make his career in Bollywood.
After the death of his parents, Khan moved to Mumbai in 1991. In that same year, before any of his films were released, he married Gauri Chibber, a Hindu, in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony on 25 October 1991. They have two children, son Aryan (b. 1997) and daughter Suhana (b. 2000). According to Khan, while he strongly believes in Allah, he also values his wife's religion. At home, his children follow both religions, with the Qur'an being situated next to the Hindu deities.
In 2005, Nasreen Munni Kabir produced a two-part documentary on Khan, titled The Inner and Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan. Featuring his 2004 Temptations concert tour, the film contrasted Khan's inner world of family and daily life with the outer world of his work. The book Still Reading Khan, which details his family life, was released in 2006. Another book by Anupama Chopra, "King of Bollywood: Shahrukh Khan and the seductive world of Indian cinema", was released in 2007. This book described the world of Bollywood through Khan's life.
Khan has been awarded several honours which includes the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2005. In April 2007, a life-size wax statue of Khan was installed at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London. Another statue was installed at the Musée Grévin in Paris, the same year. During the same year, he was accorded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Literature) award by the French government for his “exceptional career”.
In October 2008, Khan was conferred the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka which carries the honorific Datuk (in similar fashion to "Sir" in British knighthood), by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob, the head of state of Malacca in Malaysia. Khan was honoured for "promoting tourism in Malacca" by filming One Two Ka Four there in 2001. Some were critical of this decision. He was also honoured with an honorary doctorate in arts and culture from Britain's University of Bedfordshire in 2009.



Film career

Background
Khan studied acting under celebrated Theatre Director Barry John at Delhi's Theatre Action Group (TAG). In 2007, John commented thus on his former pupil that, "The credit for the phenomenally successful development and management of Shahrukh's career goes to the superstar himself." Khan made his acting debut in 1988 when he appeared in the television series, Fauji, playing the role of Commando Abhimanyu Rai. He went on to appear in several other television serials, most notably in the 1989 serial, Aziz Mirza's Circus, which depicted the life of circus performers. The same year, Khan also had a minor role in the made-for-television English-language film, In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, which was based on life at Delhi University and was written by Arundhati Roy.



1990s
Upon moving from New Delhi to Mumbai in 1991,[26] Khan made his Bollywood movie debut in Deewana (1992). The movie became a box office hit, and launched his career in Bollywood. His performance won him a Filmfare Best Male Debut Award. He went on to star in Maya Memsaab, which generated some controversy because of his appearance in an "explicit" sex scene in the movie.
In 1993, Khan won acclaim for his performances in villainous roles as an obsessive lover and a murderer, respectively, in the box office hits, Darr and Baazigar. Darr marked his first collaboration with renowned film-maker Yash Chopra and his banner Yash Raj Films, the largest production company in Bollywood. Baazigar, which saw Khan portraying an ambiguous avenger who murders his girlfriend, shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula. His performance won him his first Filmfare Best Actor Award. In that same year, Khan played the role of a young musician in Kundan Shah's Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, a performance that earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. Khan maintains that this is his all-time favourite among the movies he has acted in. In 1994, Khan once again played an obsessive lover/psycho's role in Anjaam, co-starring alongside Madhuri Dixit. Though the movie was not a box office success, Khan's performance earned him the Filmfare Best Villain Award.
In 1995, Khan starred in Aditya Chopra's directorial debut Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, a major critical and commercial success, for which he won his second Filmfare Best Actor Award. In 2007, the film entered its twelfth year in Mumbai theaters. By then the movie had grossed over 12 billion rupees, making it as one of India's biggest movie blockbusters. Earlier in the same year he found success in Rakesh Roshan's Karan Arjun which became the second biggest hit of the year.
1996 was a disappointing year for Khan as all his movies released that year failed to do well at the box office. This was, however, followed by a comeback in 1997. He saw success with Subhash Ghai's social drama Pardes — one of the biggest hits of the year — and Aziz Mirza's comedy Yes Boss, a moderately successful feature. His second project with Yash Chopra as a director, Dil to Pagal Hai became that year's second highest-grossing movie, and he won his third Filmfare Best Actor Award for his role as a stage director who falls in love with one of his new actresses.
In 1998, Khan starred in Karan Johar's directorial debut, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, which was the biggest hit of the year. His performance won him his fourth Best Actor award at the Filmfare. He won critical praise for his performance in Mani Ratnam's Dil Se. The movie did not do well at the Indian box office, though it was a commercial success overseas. Khan's only release in 1999, Baadshah, was an average grosser.
2000s
Khan's success continued with Aditya Chopra's 2000 film, Mohabbatein, co-starring Amitabh Bachchan. It did well at the box office, and Khan's performance as a college teacher won him his second Critics Award for Best Performance. He also starred in Mansoor Khan's action film Josh. The film starred Khan as the leader of a Christian gang in Goa and Aishwarya Rai as his twin sister, and was also a box office success. In that same year, Khan set up his own production house, Dreamz Unlimited with Juhi Chawla (see below). Both Khan and Chawla starred in the first movie of their production house, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. His work with Karan Johar continued as he collaborated on the family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham which was the second biggest hit of the year. He also received favorable reviews for his performance as Emperor Asoka in the historical epic, Asoka, a partly fictionalised account of the life of Ashoka the Great (304 BC–232 BC).
In 2002, Khan received acclaim for playing the title role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's award-winning period romance, Devdas. It was the third Hindi movie adaptation of Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's well-known novel of the same name, and surfaced as one of the biggest hits of that year. Khan also starred opposite Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit in the family-drama Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam, which did well at the box office.[42] In 2003, Khan starred in the moderately successful romantic drama, Chalte Chalte. That same year, he starred in the tearjerker, Kal Ho Naa Ho, written by Karan Johar and directed by Nikhil Advani. Khan's performance in this movie as a man with a fatal heart disease was appreciated. The movie proved to be one of the year's biggest hits in India and Bollywood's biggest hit in the overseas markets.
2004 was a particularly good year for Khan, both commercially and critically. He starred in Farah Khan's directorial debut, the comedy Main Hoon Na. The movie did well at the box office. He then played the role of an Indian officer, Veer Pratap Singh in Yash Chopra's love saga Veer-Zaara, which was the biggest hit of 2004 in both India and overseas. The film relates the love story of Veer and Pakistani woman Zaara Haayat Khan, played by Preity Zinta. Khan's performance in the film won him awards at several award ceremonies. In that same year, he received critical acclaim for his performance in Ashutosh Gowariker's drama Swades. He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for all three of his releases in 2004, winning it for Swades.
In 2006, Khan collaborated with Karan Johar for the fourth time with the melodrama movie Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. It did well in India and much more so in the overseas market, becoming the biggest Bollywood hit in the overseas market of all-time. His second release that year saw him playing the title role in the action film Don, a remake of the 1978 hit Don. The movie was a success.
Khan's success continued with a few more highly popular films. One of his most successful works was the multiple award-winning 2007 film, Chak De India, about the Indian women's national hockey team. Earning over Rs 639 million, Chak De India became the third highest grossing movie of 2007 in India and won yet another Filmfare Best Actor Award for Khan. The film was a major critical success. In the same year Khan also starred in Farah Khan's 2007 film, Om Shanti Om. The film emerged as the year's highest grossing film in India and the overseas market, and became India's highest grossing production ever up to that point. It earned him another nomination for Best Actor at the Filmfare ceremony. Khan's more recent films include the 2008 release, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi which was a huge box office success, and his only 2009 release was Billu which failed at the box office.
Khan's next film, My Name Is Khan, was released on 12 February 2010.While on one shoot in Los Angeles, along with his wife Gauri and director Karan Johar, he took a break from filming to attend the 66th Golden Globe Awards, held in Los Angeles, California, on 11 January 2009. Khan introduced Slumdog Millionaire along with a star from the film, Freida Pinto.



Producer

Shahrukh Khan (left) with Sourav Ganguly, the
captain of the Kolkata Knight
Riders and Gauri Khan.

Khan turned producer when he set up a production company called Dreamz Unlimited with Juhi Chawla and director Aziz Mirza in 1999. The first two of the films he produced and starred in: Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000) and Asoka (2001) were box office failures. However, his third film as a producer and star, Chalte Chalte (2003), proved a box office hit.
In 2004, Khan set up another production company, Red Chillies Entertainment, and produced and starred in Main Hoon Na, another hit. The following year, he produced and starred in the fantasy film Paheli, which did poorly. It was, however, India's official entry to the Academy Awards for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not pass the final selection. Also in 2005, Khan co-produced the supernatural horror film Kaal with Karan Johar, and performed an item number for the film with Malaika Arora Khan. Kaal was moderately successful at the box office. His company has gone on to produce Om Shanti Om (2007), in which he starred, and Billu (2009), in which he played a supporting role as a Bollywood superstar.
Apart from film production, the company also has a visual effects studio known as Red Chillies VFX. It has also ventured into television content production, with shows like, The First Ladies, Ghar Ki Baat Hai', and Knights and Angels. Television advertisements are also produced by the company.
In 2008, Red Chillies Entertainment became the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the BCCI-backed IPL cricket competition.



Television host

In 2007, Khan replaced Amitabh Bachchan as the host of the third series of the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The previous had hosted the show for five years from 2000–05. On 22 January 2007, Kaun Banega Crorepati aired with Khan as the new host[56] and later ended on 19 April 2007.
On 25 April 2008, Khan began hosting the game show Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?, the Indian version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, whose last episode was telecasted on 27 July 2008, with Lalu Prasad Yadav as the special guest.
Awards and nominations

Main article: List of Shahrukh Khan's awards and nominations
Filmography

Film actor
Year Film Role Notes
1992 Deewana Raja Sahai Winner, Filmfare Best Male Debut Award
Idiot Pawan Raghujan
Chamatkar Sunder Srivastava
Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman Raju (Raj Mathur)
Dil Aashna Hai Karan
1993 Maya Memsaab Lalit Kumar
King Uncle Anil Bhansal
Baazigar Ajay Sharma/Vicky Malhotra Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Darr Rahul Mehra Nominated, Filmfare Best Villain Award
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa Sunil Winner, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance
Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
1994 Anjaam Vijay Agnihotri Winner, Filmfare Best Villain Award
1995 Karan Arjun Arjun Singh/Vijay
Zamana Deewana Rahul Malhotra
Guddu Guddu Bahadur
Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India Hero
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Raj Malhotra Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Ram Jaane Ram Jaane
Trimurti Romi Singh
1996 English Babu Desi Mem Vikram/Hari/Gopal Mayur
Chaahat Roop Rathore
Army Arjun Cameo
Dushman Duniya Ka Badru
1997 Gudgudee Special appearance
Koyla Shankar
Yes Boss Rahul Joshi Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Pardes Arjun Saagar
Dil To Pagal Hai Rahul Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
1998 Duplicate Bablu Chaudhry/Manu Dada Nominated, Filmfare Best Villain Award
Achanak Himself Special appearance
Dil Se Amarkant Varma
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Rahul Khanna Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
1999 Baadshah Raj Heera/Baadshah Nominated, Filmfare Best Comedian Award
2000 Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani Ajay Bakshi
Hey Ram Amjad Ali Khan
Josh Max
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega Rahul Cameo
Mohabbatein Raj Aryan Malhotra Winner, Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance
Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Gaja Gamini Himself Special appearance
2001 One 2 Ka 4 Arun Verma
Asoka Asoka
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... Rahul Raichand Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
2002 Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam Gopal
Devdas Devdas Mukherjee Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Shakti: The Power Jaisingh Special appearance
Saathiya Yeshwant Rao Cameo
2003 Chalte Chalte Raj Mathur
Kal Ho Naa Ho Aman Mathur Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
2004 Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke Dushant
Main Hoon Na Maj. Ram Prasad Sharma Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Veer-Zaara Veer Pratap Singh Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Swades Mohan Bhargava Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
2005 Kuch Meetha Ho Jaaye Himself Special appearance
Kaal Special appearance in song Kaal Dhamaal
Silsilay Sutradhar Cameo
Paheli Kishenlal/The Ghost
The Inner and Outer World
of Shah Rukh Khan Himself (Biopic) Documentary directed by British-based author
and director Nasreen Munni Kabir
2006 Alag Special appearance in song Sabse Alag
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Dev Saran Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Don - The Chase Begins Again Vijay/Don Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Nominated, Asian Film Award for Best Actor
I See You Special appearance in song Subah Subah
2007 Chak De India Kabir Khan Winner, Filmfare Best Actor Award
Heyy Babyy Raj Malhotra Special appearance in song Mast Kalandar
Om Shanti Om Om Prakash Makhija/
Om Kapoor Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
2008 Krazzy 4 Special appearance in song Break Free
Bhoothnath Aditya Sharma Special appearance
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Surinder Sahni/Raj Nominated, Filmfare Best Actor Award
2009 Luck by Chance Himself Special appearance
Billu Sahir Khan
Aao Wish Karein Narrator[60]
2010 Dulha Mil Gaya Pawan Raj Gandhi (PRG) Guest appearance
My Name Is Khan Rizwan Khan
Koochie Koochie Hota Hain Rocky Post-production
2011 Ra.One Filming
Don 2 - The Chase Continues Don Pre-production
Producer
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000)
Asoka (2001)
Chalte Chalte (2003)
Main Hoon Na (2004)
Kaal (2005)
Paheli (2005)
Om Shanti Om (2007)
Billu (2009)
Ra.One (2011)
Playback singer
Main to hoon Pagal - Baadshah (1999)
Apun Bola - Josh (2000)
Khaike Paan Banaraswala - Don - The Chase Begins Again (2006)
Ek Hockey Doongi Rakhke - Chak De India (2007)
Sattar Minute - Chak De India (2007)
Stunts director
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)
Main Hoon Na (2004)
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)
Chak De India (2007)
Om Shanti Om (2007)
Television appearances
Dil Dariya (1988)
Fauji (1988) ... Abhimanyu Rai
Doosra Keval (1989)
Circus (1989)
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989)
Idiot (1991) ... Pawan Raghujan
Kareena Kareena (2004) ... Special appearance
Rendezvous with Simi Garewal.....Guest
Koffee with Karan (2004–2007) ... Guest (3 episodes)
Kaun Banega Crorepati (2007) ... Host
Jjhoom India (2007) ... Guest
Nach Baliye (2008) .... Guest
Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? (2008) .... Host
Oye! It's Friday! (2009) ... Guest
Tere Mere Beach Mein (2009) ... Guest
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2010) ... Guest
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Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field, (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. She is known for her TV roles such as the title role on Gidget (1965-66), her iconic role as Sister Bertrille on The Flying Nun (1967-70), and her film roles as Miranda Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Mrs. Gump in Forrest Gump (1994).

Field has won two Academy Awards, for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984). She has also won Emmy Awards in three different categories: the first for the 1976 Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Sybil; one for the 2000 Outstanding Guest Actress for portraying Abby Lockhart's mother Maggie on ER; and the most recent for the 2007 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award for her role as family matriarch Nora Holden Walker on ABC's Brothers & Sisters. She has also won two Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

Early life

Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of Margaret (b. May 10, 1923), an actress, and Richard Dryden Field, a U.S. Army officer who worked in sales. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother subsequently remarried actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.

She attended Portola Middle School, then Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California where she was a cheerleader. Among her classmates were infamous financier Michael Milken, fellow actress Cindy Williams (of Laverne and Shirley fame) and Michael Ovitz of CAA and Walt Disney Studios fame.

Career

Television

Field got her start on television as the boy-struck surfer girl in the mid-1960s surf culture sitcom series, Gidget. She went on to star as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun. In an interview included on the DVD release of The Flying Nun, she said that she would have preferred to continue playing Gidget. Sally hated being on The Flying Nun because she wasn't treated with respect. After her run on The Flying Nun, she was typecast. Later, she starred opposite John Davidson in a short-lived series called The Girl with Something Extra (1973-74).

In 1971, Field starred in Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring with David Carradine and a soundtrack by Linda Ronstadt. She played the role of a discouraged teen runaway who returned home after a year on the road with a bearded drug-abusing hippie named "Flack" (David Carradine).

She made several guest appearances, including a recurring role on the western comedy Alias Smith and Jones, starring Pete Duel (with whom she had worked on Gidget) and Ben Murphy, and the Rod Serling's Night Gallery episode "Whisper."

Field at Expo 67.

Having played mostly comedic characters on television, Field had a difficult time being cast in dramatic roles.[citation needed] She studied with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg, who had previously helped Marilyn Monroe go beyond the "bimbo" roles with which her career had begun.

Soon afterward, Field landed the title role in the 1976 TV film Sybil, the first of two films based on the book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Field's dramatic portrayal of Sybil, a young woman afflicted with multiple personality disorder, in the TV film not only garnered her an Emmy Award in 1977 but also enabled her to break through the typecasting she had experienced from her television sitcom roles.

Music

While starring on The Flying Nun, Sally tried her hand at singing. Sally Field sang on the Soundtrack for The Flying Nun in 1967 and she even sang The Flying Nun Theme Song "Who Needs Wings to Fly". The same year, she cracked the Billboard Hot 100 with one single, Felicidad.

Film

Field made her film debut in 1962 with a small part in Moon Pilot. Her first major film role was in The Way West (1967). In 1977, she co-starred with Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed in that year's #2 grossing film, Smokey and the Bandit.[2] In 1979, she played a union organizer in Norma Rae, a successful film that established her status as a dramatic actress. Vincent Canby, in his review of the film for the New York Times, wrote: "Norma Rae is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular." She won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Field did three more of Reynolds' films (The End, Hooper and Smokey and the Bandit II), none particularly an acting challenge. In 1981, Field continued to change her image, playing a foul-mouthed prostitute opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the South-set film Back Roads, which received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office. She won Golden Globe nominations for the 1981 drama Absence of Malice and 1982 comedy Kiss Me Goodbye.

Then came a second Oscar for her starring role in the 1984 drama Places in the Heart. Field's gushing acceptance speech is well remembered for its earnestness. She said, "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"The line ending in "...I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" is often misquoted as simply "You like me, you really like me!" which has subsequently been the subject of many parodies. (Field parodied the line herself in a commercial.[citation needed])

The following year, she co-starred with James Garner in the romantic comedy Murphy's Romance. In A&E's biography of Garner, she cited her on-screen kiss with Garner as the best cinematic kiss she had ever had.

Field appeared on the cover of the March 1986 issue of Playboy magazine, in which she was the interview subject. She did not appear as a pictorial subject inside the magazine, although she did wear the classic leotard and bunny-ears outfit on the cover.

For her role as the matriarch, M'Lynn, in the film version of Steel Magnolias (1989), she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She had supporting roles in a number of other movies, including Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) in which she played Miranda Hillard, the wife of Robin Williams's character and the love interest of Pierce Brosnan's character Stuart 'Stu' Dunmyer. She followed this with the role of Forrest's mother in Forrest Gump (1994), even though she is only 10 years older than Tom Hanks, with whom she had co-starred six years earlier in Punchline.

Her other films in the 1990s included Not Without My Daughter, a controversial suspense film, and Soapdish, a comedy in which Field plays the pampered star of a television soap opera. She played Natalie Portman's mother in Where the Heart Is (2000) and appeared opposite Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003).

Recent roles

In November 2009, Sally appeared on an episode of The Doctors to talk about osteoporosis and her Rally With Sally Foundation (www.bonehealth.com).

On television, Field had a recurring role on ER in the 2000-01 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother Maggie, who is struggling to cope with bipolar disorder, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 2001. After her critically acclaimed stint on the show, she returned to the role in 2003 and 2006. She also starred in the very short-lived 2002 series The Court.

Field has also directed. Her first stint behind the camera was for the television film The Christmas Tree (1996). She also directed the feature film Beautiful (2000) as well as an episode of the critically-acclaimed TV mini-series From the Earth to the Moon (1998).

Field was a late addition to the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006. In the show's pilot, the role of matriarch Nora Walker had been played by actress Betty Buckley. However, the producers of the show decided to take the character of Nora in another direction, and Field was cast in the role. She won the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in her role as Nora Walker. The blockbuster soap also stars familiar actresses such as Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths, in the roles of Nora's adult daughters, Kitty Walker and Sarah Walker, respectively, as well as Welsh film actor Matthew Rhys tackling the very American role of Nora's son, Kevin Walker.

Field recently had a voice role as Marina del Ray, the villain in Disney's The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, which was released in August 2008.

Currently, Field can be seen on television as the compensated spokesperson for Roche Laboratories' postmenopausal osteoporosis treatment medication, Boniva.

Political advocacy

During her 2007 acceptance speech for her 2006-07 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Field made an anti-war statement: "If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place!"  Though the crowd present at the Emmy Awards heard it, viewers watching the telecast in the United States only heard "if mothers ruled the world there would be no ... ," due to the censoring of the rest of the statement (in Canada, her remark was not bleeped). All so-called "live" awards ceremonies are shown with as much as a 10-second delay to allow for the censoring of profanity and the same controversial statements that Field made, because in the recent past awards winners on any host of shows have used acceptance speeches as a platform for political tirades. While Field's was mild by comparison to many others, the decision to censor it and her statement itself created considerable controversy. In the 2008 presidential election, she supported Hillary Clinton in her bid for the Democratic Party nomination.

[edit]Personal life

Field married Steven Craig in 1968. The couple had two sons, Peter Craig, a novelist, and Eli, an actor and director. They divorced in 1975. Sally Field was romantically involved with Burt Reynolds for many years, during which time they co-starred in several movies, including Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II, and The End. In 1984, she married film producer Alan Greisman. They had one son, Sam. Field and Greisman divorced in 1993.

On October 29, 1988, she and her family survived a crash after their charter plane lost power on takeoff. They all survived, but suffered minor injuries.

Field suffers from osteoporosis.

]Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes

1967 The Way West Mercy McBee

1976 Stay Hungry Mary Tate Farnsworth

1977 Smokey and the Bandit Carrie / 'Frog' Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

Heroes Carol Bell

1978 The End Mary Ellen

Hooper Gwen Doyle

1979 Norma Rae Norma Rae Academy Award for Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Best Actress Award - Cannes Film Festival

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Celeste Whitman

1980 Smokey and the Bandit II Carrie / 'Frog'

1981 Back Roads Amy Post

Absence of Malice Megan Carter Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

1982 Kiss Me Goodbye Kay Villano Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

1984 Places in the Heart Edna Spalding Academy Award for Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

1985 Murphy's Romance Emma Moriarty Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

1987 Surrender Daisy Morgan

1988 Punchline Lilah Krytsick

1989 Steel Magnolias M'Lynn Eatenton Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

1991 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody

Soapdish Celeste Talbert / Maggie

1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Sassy voice

Mrs. Doubtfire Miranda Hillard

1994 A Century of Cinema Herself documentary

Forrest Gump Mrs. Gump Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture

1996 Eye for an Eye Karen McCann

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco Sassy voice

2000 Where the Heart Is Mama Lil

2001 Say It Isn't So Valdine Wingfield

2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde Rep. Victoria Rudd

Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern Herself documentary

2006 Two Weeks Anita Bergman

2008 The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning Marina Del Ray (voice-over; animated)

2011 Lincoln (film) Mary Todd Lincoln pre-production

[edit]Television

Year Production Role Notes

1965–66 Gidget Frances Elizabeth "Gidget" Lawrence 32 episodes

1966–67 Hey, Landlord Bonnie Banner 4 episodes

1967–70 The Flying Nun Elsie Ethrington "Sister Bertrille" 82 episodes

1971 Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring Denise "Dennie" Miller

Hitched Roselle Bridgeman

Marriage: Year One Jane Duden

1972 Home for the Holidays Christine Morgan

1973–74 The Girl with Something Extra Sally Burton 22 episodes

1976 Bridger Jennifer Melford

Sybil Sybil Dorsett Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

1977 Merry Christmas, George Bailey Mrs. Bailey/Narrator

1995 A Woman of Independent Means Bess Alcott Steed Garner TV mini-series

Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor - Miniseries or Television Film

1998 From the Earth to the Moon Trudy Cooper miniseries

1999 A Cooler Climate[8] Iris Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie[9]

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor - Miniseries or Television Film[8]

2000 David Copperfield Aunt Betsey Trotwood Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Actor - Miniseries or Television Film

2000–06 ER Maggie Wyczenski Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series (2001)

Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series (2003)

Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (2000)

Recurring role

2002 The Court Justice Kate Nolan Cancelled after 6 episodes

2005 Conviction

2006– Brothers & Sisters Nora Walker Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series (Nominated — 2008, 2009, Won — 2007)

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama (2007, 2008)

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

(Nominated — 2008, Won — 2009)

85+ episodes

Discography

Singles

"Felicidad" (Billboard #94) / "Find Yourself A Rainbow" -- Colgems 1008 (1967)

"Golden Days" / "You're A Grand Old Flag" -- Colgems 1014 (1968)

"Gonna Build A Mountain" / "Months Of The Year" -- Colgems 1030 (1968)

Albums

"The Flying Nun" -- Colgems COM-106 (Mono)/COS-106 (Stereo) (1967)

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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. (born August 18, 1936) better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.

Personal life

Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. (née Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr. (November 19, 1914 – April 2, 1991), a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry.

He attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California, where he was classmates with Don Drysdale, and was a teammate on the Van Nuys High School baseball team with Don Drysdale. He graduated in 1954 and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher and a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. While there, he worked at the famous restaurant/bar The Sink. He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes in theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

On August 9, 1958 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him. They had four children: David James "Jamie", Shauna, Amy Redford, and Scott Anthony Redford. Scott, their first child was born September 1, 1959 and died of sudden infant death syndrome on November 17, 1959 at age 2½ months. He is buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Robert and Lola divorced in 1985. He has five grandchildren, Dylan and Lena Redford (of son Jamie), Mica and Conor Schlosser (of daughter Shauna) and Eden August (of daughter Amy).

In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shares his Sundance, Utah, home.

Acting career

Television

Redford's career, like that of almost all major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York, where an actor could find work both in television and on stage. Starting in 1959, he appeared as a guest star on numerous programs, including The Untouchables, Whispering Smith, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, Playhouse 90, Tate and The Twilight Zone, among others. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (ABC, 1962). One of his last television appearances was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.

Theater

Redford's Broadway debut was in a small role in Tall Story (1959), followed by parts in The Highest Tree (1959) and Sunday in New York (1961). His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963).

Film

Redford in Barefoot in the Park.

While still largely an unknown, Redford made his screen debut in War Hunt (1962), co-starring with John Saxon in a film set during the last days of the Korean War. This film also marked the debuts of Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. He played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) and rejoined her for Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966)—again as her lover. The same year saw his first teaming with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the big screen version of Barefoot in the Park (1967) and were again co-stars in Pollack's The Electric Horseman (1979).

Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image and turned down roles in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate. Redford found the property he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film made him a bankable star and cemented his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Redford became one of the most popular stars of the 1970s.

Redford suffered through a few films that did not achieve box office success during this time, including Downhill Racer (1969), Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), and The Hot Rock (1972). But his overall career was flourishing with the critical and box office hit Jeremiah Johnson (1972), the political satire The Candidate (1972), The Way We Were, (1973) and The Sting (1973), for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

During the years 1974-76, exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box office name. His hits included The Great Gatsby (1974), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and Three Days of the Condor (1975). The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula and scripted once again by Goldman, was a landmark film for Redford. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter, the Watergate scandal, also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes.

He also starred in the 1977 war film A Bridge Too Far, and the baseball film The Natural (1984). Redford has continued his involvement in mainstream Hollywood movies, though projects became fewer. He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the political thriller The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie, someone else with a strong interest in politics. Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentary Sacred Planet (2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. In The Clearing (2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream.

Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto 'Che' Guevera, and his friend Alberto Granado. It also explored political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. Five years in the making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting the film made and released.

Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his turn in director Lasse Hallstrom's An Unfinished Life (2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez)—whom he blames for his son's death—and the granddaughter he never knew he had when they flee an abusive relationship. The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichéd and overly sentimental. Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he signed on to direct and star in an update of The Candidate.

Director

Redford at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the lens. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. His first outing as director was in 1980's Ordinary People, a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Redford did not direct again until The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest. The Milagro Beanfield War is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas, in northern New Mexico) overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out because of tax increases. Other directorial projects have included the period family drama A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the exposé Quiz Show (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. Redford handpicked Morrow for his part in the film (Morrow's only high-profile feature film role to date), because he liked his work on Northern Exposure. Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).

Beside his directing and producing duties, Redford continued acting. He played opposite Meryl Streep in Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winning Out of Africa, Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal, and Kristin Scott Thomas in The Horse Whisperer, which he also directed. Redford also continued work in films with political context, such as Havana (1990), Sneakers (1992), Spy Game (2001), and Lions for Lambs (2007).

Honors

U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees, from left to right, actress Julie Harris, actor Robert Redford, singer Tina Turner, ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell and singer Tony Bennett on December 4, 2005, during the reception in the Blue Room at the White House.

He attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an Honorary Degree in 1983.

In 1995, Redford received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards.

In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

In December 2005, he received honors at the Kennedy Center for his contributions to American culture. The Honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television.

The University of Southern California (USC) School of Theater announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. According to the school's web site, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and empowering young people."

Robert Redford received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Brown University at the 240th Commencement exercises on May 25, 2008. He also spoke during the ceremonies.

Filmography

Actor

Year Film Role Notes

1960 Tall Story Basketball Player

1962 War Hunt Private Roy Loomis

Nothing in the Dark (episode of The Twilight Zone) Harold Beldon

1965 Inside Daisy Clover Wade Lewis

Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious Captain Hank Wilson

1966 This Property Is Condemned Owen Legate

The Chase Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves

1967 Barefoot in the Park Paul Bratter

1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Sundance Kid BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

also for Downhill Racer and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Deputy Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

also for Downhill Racer and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Downhill Racer David Chappellet BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

also for Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970 Little Fauss and Big Halsy Halsy Knox

1972 Jeremiah Johnson Jeremiah Johnson

The Candidate Bill McKay

The Hot Rock John Archibald Dortmunder

1973 The Sting Johnny Hooker Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor

The Way We Were Hubbell Gardiner

1974 The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby

1975 Three Days of the Condor Joseph Turner/The Condor

The Great Waldo Pepper Waldo Pepper

1976 All the President's Men Bob Woodward

1977 A Bridge Too Far Major Julian Cook

1979 The Electric Horseman Norman 'Sonny' Steele

1980 Brubaker Henry Brubaker

1984 The Natural Roy Hobbs

1985 Out of Africa Denys Finch Hatton

1986 Legal Eagles Tom Logan

1990 Havana Jack Weil

1992 A River Runs Through It Narrator (Uncredited) Voice Only

Also Producer/Director

Sneakers Martin "Marty" Bishop

Incident at Oglala Narrator

1993 Indecent Proposal John Gage

La Classe américaine Steven

1996 Up Close & Personal Warren Justice

1998 The Horse Whisperer Tom Booker Also Producer/Director

2001 Spy Game Nathan D. Muir

The Last Castle Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

2004 The Clearing Wayne Hayes

Sacred Planet Narrator

2005 An Unfinished Life Einar Gilkyson

2006 Charlotte's Web Ike Voice Only

2007 Lions for Lambs Dr. Stephen Malley Also Producer/Director

Director

Year Film Notes

1980 Ordinary People Academy Award for Best Director

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film

Golden Globe Award for Best Director

1988 The Milagro Beanfield War

1992 A River Runs Through It Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director

1994 Quiz Show Nominated — Academy Award for Best Picture

Nominated — Academy Award for Best Director

Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Film

Nominated — Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director

1998 The Horse Whisperer Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director

2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance

2007 Lions for Lambs

2010 The Conspirator

Sundance

Mount Timpanogos, panoramic view

With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah called "Timp Haven," which was renamed "Sundance." Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot near the ski area. He founded the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City, Utah, 30 miles (48 km) north of the Sundance ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received recognition from the industry as a place to open films. In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees. The name Sundance comes from his character, the Sundance Kid. In addition, Redford owns a celebrated restaurant called Zoom, located on Main Street in the former mining town of Park City.

ndependent films

Since founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, in 1981, Redford has been deeply involved with independent film. Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided much-needed support for independent filmmakers. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable TV channel devoted to airing independent films—the Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996.

Political activity

Redford is politically liberal, and has supported environmentalism, Native American rights, and the arts. Most of his federal political contributions have been to Democrats (61%) or advocacy groups (34.6%), such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America. However Redford has on occasion also supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful 1990 race for Utah's 3rd congressional district seat. Redford also supported Gary R. Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor, and is currently the Governor of Utah. He is an avid environmentalist and is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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