Starting in 1960, Redford appeared as a guest star on numerous television drama programs, including Naked City, Maverick, The Untouchables, The Americans, Whispering Smith, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66, Dr. His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in the original 1963 cast of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. His 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). Redford's career, like that of many major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York City, where an actor found work both on stage and in television. He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Class of 1959) in New York City. He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness still figures prominently among the bar's murals. He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up.ДЄfter graduating from high school in 1954, he attended the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado for a year and a half, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He has described himself as having been a 'bad' student, finding inspiration outside the classroom, and being interested in art and sports. Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, while his father worked in El Segundo. Redford's maternal lineage, the Harts, were Irish from Galway, the Greens were Scots-Irish who settled in the 18th century. They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name. His patrilineal great-great grandfather, Englishman Elisha Redford, married Irish-Catholic Mary Ann McCreery in Manchester Cathedral they emigrated to New York City in 1849, immediately settling in Stonington, Connecticut. Redford is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. He has a half brother, William, from his father's first marriage. Redford was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha Hart (1914вЂ“1955) and Charles Robert Redford (1914вЂ“1991), an accountant and milkman. Redford is also one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the LГ©gion d'Honneur. He received a second Academy Award-for Lifetime Achievement-in 2002. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford.

He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a reunion with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He starred with Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) which won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newly-wed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). ДЄppearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. DeMille Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B.

(born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director, and activist.

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