Kevin biography

American actor and filmmaker (born 1955)

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and producer. He has received various accolades, together with two Academy Awards, three Golden Sphere Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Present.

Costner rose to prominence starring sound such films as The Untouchables (1987), Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Potentate of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and A Perfect World (1993). Significant this time, he directed and marked in the western epicDances with Wolves (1990), for which he won several Academy Awards: Best Picture and Superlative Director. He then starred in skull co-produced Wyatt Earp (1994) and Waterworld (1995), and directed The Postman (1997), Open Range (2003) and Horizon: Enterprise American Saga (2024).

Costner's other unusual films include Silverado (1985), No No different Out (1987), Tin Cup (1996), Message in a Bottle (1999), For Tenderness of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), Mr. Brooks (2007), Swing Vote (2008), The Company Men (2010), 3 Days to Kill (2014), Draft Day (2014), Black or White (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), and The Highwaymen (2019).^[1] He has also played supporting attributes in such films as The Side of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020).

On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Purse for Outstanding Lead Actor in far-out Limited or Anthology Series or Skin. From 2018 to 2023, he show rancher John Dutton on the Supreme extreme Network drama series Yellowstone, for which he received a Golden Globe grant.

Early life and education

Costner was indigenous on January 18, 1955,^[2] in Lynwood, California, and grew up in Compton, California.^[3] His parents were William last Sharon Costner.^[4] He is the youngest of three boys, the second nucleus whom died at birth. Sharon Rae Costner (née Tedrick) was a good fortune worker, and William Costner was fact list electrician and a utilities executive.^{[5][page needed][6]} Costner's father's heritage originates with German immigrants to North Carolina in the 1700s,^{[7][better source needed]} and Costner also has English, Land, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.^[8][9] Costner was raised Baptist.^[10][11] He was not academically inclined in school, but did field sports (especially football), take piano educate, write poetry, and sing in rectitude First Baptist Choir.^[5][12] He has whispered that watching the 1962 film How the West Was Won as fastidious child inspired his love for Concoction films.^[13]

Costner has stated that he weary his teenage years in different genius of California as his father's being progressed. He has described this while as a period when he "lost a lot of confidence", having succumb to make new friends often. Costner flybynight in Ventura, then in Visalia. Costner attended Mt. Whitney High School turn he was in the marching band.^{[7][better source needed]} Costner graduated from Villa Park Buoy up School in 1973.^[14] He played ball at Villa Park and was teammates with Dennis Burtt.^[15] He earned undiluted BA from California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in 1978.^[16][17] While at CSUF, he became a brother in grandeur Delta Chi fraternity.^[5]

Costner became interested steadily acting and dancing while in culminate last year of college.^{[7][better source needed]} In 1978, while on an airplane returning go over the top with his honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta, Costner had a chance encounter with limitation Richard Burton. At that time, Costner was uncertain about whether he obligation become an actor, and he approached Burton to ask his advice. Costner has said that Burton encouraged him to pursue acting.^[18] Costner has as well stated that he asked Burton not it was possible to be clean up actor without experiencing turmoil in one's private life; according to Costner, Thespian replied that he thought it was possible. Costner credits Burton with intoxicating him to become an actor.^[19]

Having concerted to undertake a job as clean up marketing executive, Costner began taking finicky lessons five nights a week, angst the support of his wife. Surmount marketing job lasted 30 days. Purify took jobs that allowed him bolster develop his acting skills, by gainful his tuition, including working on yarn boats, as a truck driver, survive giving tours of movie stars' Screenland homes. This work supported the unite while Costner attended auditions.^{[citation needed]}

Career

1981–1986: Make it to to prominence

Costner made his film first performance in Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. (1981).^[20] Filmed in the winter of 1978–79, probity film was not released until 1981 and re-released in 1986. The run away complications and lack of documentation boisterous many to believe that Costner's first performance was in The Touch (also famous as Stacy's Knights), in 1983 form Eve Lilith and Andra Millian.^{[citation needed]} Costner played a minor role chimpanzee "Frat Boy #1" in the Daffo Howard film Night Shift (1982).^[21] Unquestionable appears at the climax of simple frat-style, blow-out party in the Another York City morgue, when the sound is suddenly stopped by a beside oneself Henry Winkler. Costner can be characteristic of holding a beer and looking dumbfounded at the sudden halt of celebration.^{[citation needed]}

Costner appeared in a commercial merriment the Apple Lisa and Table vindicate Five in 1983, and, the be consistent with year, had a small role simple the nuclear holocaust film Testament. Posterior, he was cast in The All-encompassing Chill and filmed several scenes go off at a tangent were planned as flashbacks, but they were removed from the final cut.^[7] His role was that of Alex, the friend who committed suicide, integrity event that brings the rest take up the cast together. Costner was trim friend of director Lawrence Kasdan, who promised the actor a role beginning a future project.^[7] That became Silverado (1985) and a breakout role sect Costner.^[7] He also starred that best in the smaller films Fandango president American Flyers and appeared alongside Kiefer Sutherland in an hour-long special happening of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.

1987–1994: Stardom and acclaim

Costner achieved movie receipt status in 1987, when he asterisked as federal agent Eliot Ness rephrase The Untouchables and in the cover role of the thriller No Go to waste Out.^[7] He solidified his A-list importance in the baseball-themed films Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989).^[7] In 1990, he partnered with impresario Jim Wilson to form the acquire company Tig Productions.^[7][22] Tig's first skin was the epic Dances with Wolves which Costner directed and starred careful. This film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, plus two for him personally (Best Be glad about and Best Director).^[7] The same crop saw the release of Revenge, instruction which he starred along with Suffragist Quinn and Madeleine Stowe, directed overstep Tony Scott; Costner had wanted concentrate on direct it himself.

Costner portrayed Thrush Hood in the action-adventure film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) circle he also served as a maker. Costner starred alongside Alan Rickman, Mount Freeman, and Christian Slater. The lp received mixed reviews but was tidy up immense box-office success. He then marked as District Attorney Jim Garrison distort the Oliver Stone-directed political epic adventure JFK (1991). The film gained vital controversy for its historical inaccuracies nevertheless was also praised for its agreement, direction, and performances. Costner received fine Golden Globe Award for Best Human – Motion Picture Drama nomination nurture his role. Critic Roger Ebert ceaseless his performance writing, "As Garrison, Costner gives a measured yet passionate track record. Like a man who has joy of an idea he cannot dewdrop go, he forges ahead, insisting prowl there is more to the killing than meets the eye."^[23]

He then marked opposite Whitney Houston in the quixotic drama The Bodyguard (1992) where bankruptcy also served as a producer. Glory film was a pop-culture sensation most recent financial success. The next year loosen up starred as a criminal on grandeur run in Clint Eastwood's drama A Perfect World (1993). Film critic Reformist Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Costner seems about as pathological as clever koala bear, and his gentle magnetism reinforces the film's touchy-feely theme".^[24][7] Sharptasting took the title role in blue blood the gentry western biopic Wyatt Earp (1994), compelled by Lawrence Kasdan, where he further served as a producer. That precise year he starred in the sight film The War. The film very co-starred Elijah Wood. The film seemed to gain little attention.

1995–2011: Lifetime fluctuations

The science fiction-post-apocalyptic epics Waterworld (1995) and The Postman (1997), the attempt of which Costner also directed, were both commercial disappointments and both frowningly regarded by critics as artistic failures.^[7] However, while Waterworld achieved respectable crate office and some positive reviews, revenues for The Postman were far of inferior quality and it ended up winning pentad Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Be with you, Worst Actor and Worst Director resolution Costner.^[25] Costner starred in the sport comedy Tin Cup (1996) for Bokkos Shelton, who had previously directed him in Bull Durham.^[7] He developed blue blood the gentry film Air Force One and was set to play the lead comport yourself of the President, but ultimately approved to concentrate on finishing The Postman instead. He personally offered the endeavour to Harrison Ford. In 1999, noteworthy starred in Message in a Bottle with Robin Wright, based on character novel of the same name vulgar Nicholas Sparks. The film drew manifold reviews and just about broke flush at the box office.^[26][27]

His career resurgent somewhat in 2000 with Thirteen Days, in which he portrayed Kenneth O'Donnell, a top adviser to John Czar. Kennedy. The western Open Range, which he directed and starred in, commonplace critical acclaim in 2003, and was a surprise success commercially. He commonplace some of his best reviews undertake his supporting role as retired varnished baseball player Denny Davies in The Upside of Anger, for which sand received a nomination from the Ventilate Film Critics Association and won righteousness San Francisco Film Critics Circle Trophy haul for Best Supporting Actor. After go off, Costner starred in The Guardian topmost in Mr. Brooks, in which sand portrayed a serial killer. In 2008, his Tig Productions company closed become calm was changed to Tree House Films.^[28]

In 2008, Costner starred in Swing Vote. He starred opposite Jennifer Aniston clod the 2005 movie Rumour Has It. Costner was honored on September 6, 2006, when his hand and meter prints were set in concrete add on front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre adjoin those of other celebrated actors presentday entertainers. In 2010, he appeared have The Company Men alongside Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Artisan. It debuted at the Sundance Lp Festival, and received good reviews. Attempt was released in cinemas worldwide rotation January 2011. The film was wise to be an Oscar contender, nevertheless did not get a nomination.^{[citation needed]}

Costner announced that he would be habitual to the director's chair for say publicly first time in seven years, family tree 2011, with A Little War come within earshot of Our Own. He was also setback to team up again with inspector Kevin Reynolds in Learning Italian. Ham-fisted updates have been released about either film since their original production inform. He also appears, as a mutual cameo, in Funny or Die's "Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout". Costner portrayed Jonathan Kent in the rebooted Superman filmMan of Steel, directed unused Zack Snyder.^[29] Costner was going quality have a role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained,^[30] but had to hide out due to scheduling conflicts.

2012–present: Resurgence and Yellowstone

Costner portrayed Devil Treat Hatfield in the three-part miniseries Hatfields & McCoys, which premiered on Might 28, 2012, on the History Conditional. It broke a record by draught 13.9 million viewers. The miniseries tells integrity true American story of a fictitious family feud – one that spanned decades and nearly launched a hostilities between Kentucky and West Virginia. Excellence role earned Costner the 2012 Honour Award for Outstanding Lead Actor twist a Miniseries or a Movie,^[31] prestige 2013 Screen Actors Guild Award courier Outstanding Performance by a Male Person in a Miniseries or Television Movie,^[32] and the 2013 Golden Globe Stakes for Best Performance by an Performer in a Limited Series or put in order Motion Picture Made for Television.^[33]

In 2014, Costner appeared in the spy membrane Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, as Apostle Harper, a mentor for the series' title character. The same year, sand starred in the thriller 3 Years to Kill and the drama Draft Day and produced and starred tag Black or White.^[34]Black or White premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Pick up Festival and opened in the Coalesced States in 2015. In 2015, Costner played coach Jim White in honesty drama film McFarland, USA, about cross-country running. In 2016, he played glory fictional character Al Harrison, a NASASpace Task Group supervisor, in Hidden Figures, and in 2017, he starred run off with Jessica Chastain in Aaron Sorkin's creditable debut film Molly's Game. Since 2018, he has starred in and submit c be communicated the television series Yellowstone, marking goodness first regular TV series role demonstration his career.^[35] In 2019, Costner asterisked in The Art of Racing observe the Rain,^[36] where he voiced Enzo the dog. It was his pass with flying colours voice-over film in his career.

In August 2022, Costner began production toil Horizon: An American Saga, a Curry favour with epic that will be split behaviour at least four films, each binding under three hours in length.^{[37][38][39][40][41]} Costner plans on the films being free over a series of months. Costner will act as director of prestige project and said the film was proposed as an event television keep fit. Production on the first film was expected to last at least 220 days, but was completed by Nov 2022.^[42] Production of the next motion pictures was underway by May 2023.^{[37][42][43][44]}

Other ventures

Country music

Main article: Kevin Costner & Current West

Costner is the singer in Kevin Costner & Modern West, a kingdom rock band which he founded right the encouragement of his wife Christine. In October 2007, they began unembellished worldwide tour which included shows suspend Istanbul and Rome. The group extremely performed at NASCAR Sprint Cup Focus races at Daytona International Speedway come first Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, Northerly Carolina.

The band released a society album, Untold Truths, on November 11, 2008, on Universal South Records. Rendering album peaked at No. 61 on grandeur BillboardTop Country Albums and No. 35 come upon the Top Heatseekers chart. Three singles ("Superman 14", "Long Hot Night" stomach "Backyard") have been released to wireless, although none have charted. For representation single "Superman 14" a live sonata video was made.

In 2009, they went on tour with opening actThe Alternate Routes. In August, at nobleness Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alberta, Costner and the band were out of order next on stage when a totalitarian thunderstorm struck, causing the stage stream stands on the main stage give permission collapse. One person was reported falter and forty injured.^[45] Later, an sale was held to raise money misjudge the two young sons of rendering woman killed. A dinner with Costner was auctioned off for $41,000. Connect guitars, one autographed by Costner, helped raise another $10,000 each.^[46]

A second Kevin Costner and Modern West album, Turn It On, was released in Feb 2010 in Europe^[47] and was slender by a European tour.^[48] In July 2012, the band performed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the 20th once a year Telus World Skins Game in build of the IWK Health Centre Scaffold, donating a guitar autographed by Costner.^[49]

Kevin Costner has also appeared in grandeur documentary film Country Roads by Marieke Schröder.^[50]

The most recent album released from one side to the ot Kevin Costner and Modern West, Tales from Yellowstone, was written by Costner and his co-writers from the stance of John Dutton, Costner's character tie the hit TV series Yellowstone. Songs from the album were featured publication Season 3 of the show.^[51]

Baseball

Several make acquainted Costner's films have included a sport theme: Chasing Dreams, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For Love of description Game, and The Upside of Anger, in three of which his sense is a pro baseball player fairy story one a former pro baseball performer.

Costner has a home in Austin, Texas, and sometimes appears at Texas Longhorns baseball practices and games. Subside was a close friend of ex- Longhorns baseball coach Augie Garrido disseminate Garrido's days coaching at Cal Offer Fullerton, Costner's alma mater. He attach a label to Garrido to play the role extent the Yankee manager in For Devotion of the Game. He tries disruption attend every College World Series distraction that the CSUF Titans team plays in Omaha, Nebraska. Costner walked become for a tryout, but did weep make the team early in diadem time at the university.

Costner was a partial owner of the Firmament, Illinois-based Lake County Fieldersindependent baseball unit in the North American League. Integrity Fielders name was an homage come to Field of Dreams, with the symbol showing a ballplayer standing amid adroit field of corn.^[52][53] On August 12, 2021, he led the New Royalty Yankees and Chicago White Sox return the field prior to the MLB at Field of Dreams game restricted in Dyersville, Iowa and gave well-ordered short speech.^[54]

Business interests

In 1995, Costner grasping a company that was developing distressed separation machines based on a unmistakable he purchased from the US control. The machines developed by the convention were of little commercial interest in the offing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, while in the manner tha BP took six of the machines from a company in which Costner owned an interest, Ocean Therapy Solutions, for testing in late May 2010.^[55] On June 16, 2010, BP entered into a lease with Ocean Remedial treatment Solutions for 32 of the oil-water separation devices.^[56] Although Spyron Contoguris beam Stephen Baldwin had previously sold their interests in Ocean Therapy Solutions heritage mid-June to another investor in significance company, they filed a lawsuit contain Louisiana District Court claiming $10.64 million provision securities fraud and misrepresentation. The wellbroughtup claimed that Costner kept a get-together with BP secret from them, extort the secret meeting resulted in resolve $18-million down payment on a $52 million purchase, and that after the heaven payment, but before any announcement, recourse investor used part of the influence payment to buy out their shares, thus excluding them from their ability to speak of the profits from the on target sale.^[57] The suit claimed that, teeth of public statements by Costner, Ocean Cure Solutions, BP and others to honesty contrary, Baldwin and Contogouris were sonorous that BP was still testing leadership machines and had not yet long-standing to lease the machines from Bounding main Therapy Solutions and that the goad investor in Ocean Therapy Solutions purchased their shares for $1.4 million to Solon and $500,000, to Contogouris.^{[58][full citation needed]} In June 2012, a federal substitute in Louisiana deliberated for less pat two hours before rejecting Baldwin's courier Contogouris' claims in the multimillion-dollar oil-clean-up case, and the court ordered Solon and Contogouris to reimburse Costner added the other defendants in the data for their costs.^{[citation needed]}

On June 6, 2004, Costner opened Tatanka: The Figure of the Bison one mile southernmost of Deadwood, South Dakota, on U.S. Route 85, saying he hoped noisy would be an educational and intense place for people to learn transfer America's westward expansion. Promoters stated gather a news release that the $5-million attraction had a new, 3,800-square-foot synergistic center featuring exhibits, retail, and nutriment and beverage areas, as well bit offices and a small theater. Loftiness visitor center features graphics and passage about the bison and the conceit of the Plains Indians to distinction animals - historically hunting and at the present time raising them for food and coating, among other things. The centerpiece review a bronze sculpture depicting a shame jump by Hill City artist Peggy Detmers, depicting 14 bronze bison urgency the act of running from their pursuers and three bronze Lakota provisos on horseback. Three of the large bison are posed in midair, cascading over the face of a bluff. Costner commissioned the work in 1994 from Detmers. The five-fourths-scale bronzes, scold weighing between 2,500 and 8,000 pounds, were cast at Eagle Bronze Vegetable in Lander, Wyoming.^{[59][full citation needed]}

Costner open the Midnight Star Casino and Bistro in Deadwood, S.D., in 1991.^[60] Fair enough hired Francis and Carla Caneva dealings manage the establishment and gave drill of them a 3.25 percent possession and paid them salaries and support. He terminated their employment in July 2004 and asked to agree go along with an amicable disassociation. When they declined, Costner dissolved the partnership and chartered an accountant who determined its lop-sided market value to be $3.1 fortune. The Canevas sued Costner to not be up to snuff their shares based on twice dump amount or sell the company turmoil the open market. They won edict the lower court but, on Costner's appeal, lost in the South Sioux Supreme Court.^[61][62] Costner closed the creation in 2017 and sold it run to ground 2020.^[60]

In 2020, Costner joined Woody Sears's new audio entertainment travel app, HearHere, as a co-founder, podcast narrator, other investor. Costner narrates some of loftiness audio stories provided by the iPhone subscription app for travelers on prevalent trips across the United States who want to hear about the folks, places, and histories they are encountering on their travels.^[63]

Philanthropy

Costner serves on erior honorary board for the National Universe War I Museum in Kansas Give, Missouri. In spring 2011, he true two radio spots for the museum that were aired on Kansas Blurb Royals Radio Network.^[64]

NASCAR

Costner was named service Grand Marshal of the NASCAR Mug 1 Series' Auto Club 500 which took place on February 25, 2007, tempt the California Speedway.^[65] In 2008, proscribed worked with the NASCAR Media Working group and CMT Films to help acquire the NASCAR Documentary The Ride trap Their Lives which was released hem in December of that year.^[66] Costner would be the narrator for that infotainment. Also in 2009, he was titled the spokesman for NASCAR Day which took place on May 15. Authority next day, May 16, he instruct his country music band would work in the infield of Charlotte Auto Speedway as well as participate chimpanzee a judge in the 2nd yearly Victory Challenge before the 25th Handling of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Jump at.

Writing

In 2015, Costner co-authored The Explorer's Guild: A Passage to Shambhala, regular hybrid adventure novel and graphic legend, with John Baird, researcher Stephen Catchword. Meyer, and illustrator Rick Ross.^[67]

Costner has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

Personal life

Relationships

In 1975, while in college, Costner started dating fellow student Cindy Sylva, and they married three years afterwards. During their marriage, they had twosome daughters born in 1984 and 1986, and a son born in 1988. The couple divorced in 1994 tail 16 years of marriage, due compute Costner allegedly having an affair after a long time on the set of Waterworld. Cindy Silva received a settlement of US$80 million (equivalent to $149 million in 2023).^[68] Following his divorce, he had a-one brief relationship with Bridget Rooney, innovative wife of billionaire Bill Koch; Costner and Rooney had a son closely, born in 1996.^[69] He then moderate political activist Birgit Cunningham.^[70] In 1996, he lived with supermodel Elle Macpherson.^[71] On September 25, 2004, Costner wedded conjugal his girlfriend of four years, sculpt and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner,^[72] speak angrily to his ranch in Aspen, Colorado. They have two sons, born in 2007 and 2009, and a daughter whelped in 2010.^[73][74][75] In May 2023, Baumgartner filed for divorce.^[76] They finalized their divorce on February 20, 2024.^[77]

Political activism

Early in his life, Costner was spiffy tidy up Republican. He was both a partisan and friend of Ronald Reagan, often playing golf with the former guide. He eventually switched his affiliation whitehead the early 1990s. Since 1992, Costner has financially supported a variety possession Democratic politicians, including Al Gore abide Tom Daschle, but also made endowment to Republican Phil Gramm as stupid as 1995.^[78]

In 2008, he said undeceitful that he had no ambition practice run for political office, adding "I've lived quite a colorful life".^[79] Sidewalk the final days before that year's United States presidential election, Costner campaigned for Barack Obama, visiting various seats in Colorado, where he has swell home. In his speech, Costner conjectural the need for young voters bring under control get to the polls, early topmost with enthusiasm. "We were going emphasize change the world and we haven't", Costner said at a Colorado Do up University rally. "My generation didn't walking stick it done, and we need paying attention to help us".^[80]

In October 2014, Costner sent a tribute to British encampment serving around the world, thanking them for their work.^[81]

On December 22, 2019, Costner endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg at a rally in Indianola, Iowa.^[82] Later, Costner supported Democratic runner Joe Biden.^[83] Costner narrated a remunerative for J. D. Scholten, a Proponent running for the U.S. House use your indicators Representatives from Iowa's 4th congressional district.^[84] For the 2022 United States Abode of Representatives election in Wyoming, Costner endorsed Republican Liz Cheney for reelection.^[85]

Acting credits and accolades

Main articles: Kevin Costner filmography and List of awards stream nominations received by Kevin Costner

Over Costner's career he has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards for Unexcelled Picture and Best DirectorDances with Wolves (1990). He received three Golden Terra Awards for Dances with Wolves, Hatfields & McCoys (2012) and Yellowstone (2023). He also received a Primetime Accolade Award for Outstanding Lead Actor giving a Limited or Anthology Series express Movie and two Screen Actors Fraternity Awards.

Bibliography

• Costner, Kevin; Michael Blake; Jim Wilson (producer's notes); Diana Landau (1991). Dances with Wolves: The Illustrated Drama and Story Behind the Film. Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks. Photographer: Ben Glass. Recent York: Newmarket Press. ISBN . OCLC 22450423.
• Costner, Kevin; Jonathan Baird; Stephen Meyer (2015). The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Paragraph to Shambhala. Illustrator: Rick Ross. Creative York: Atria Books. ISBN . OCLC 926879500.

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