Hollywood actor and director, Robert Redford, has died on the age of 89, his publicist confirmed.
Redford handed away “at his residence at Sundance within the mountains of Utah, the place he cherished, surrounded by these he cherished,” publicist Cindi Berger stated in a press release.
No reason for demise was given.
Redford’s profession spanned six many years and was marked by acclaimed performances in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child (1969), The Sting (1973), and All of the President’s Males (1976). He acquired his solely Oscar nomination as an actor for The Sting however earned an Academy Award for his directorial debut, Abnormal Folks (1980).
Past Hollywood, Redford was celebrated because the driving drive behind the fashionable unbiased movie motion. He based the Sundance Institute in 1981 and remodeled a struggling movie competition into the globally famend Sundance Movie Competition.
“For me, the phrase to be underscored is ‘independence,’” Redford stated in 2018, reflecting on his mission to present rising filmmakers a platform.
A lifelong advocate for environmental causes, Redford was remembered for his quiet however regular dedication to conservation.
His last display function got here in 2018’s The Outdated Man and the Gun, which he described as his farewell to performing.
Redford was married twice, most lately to artist Sibylle Szaggars. He had 4 kids, two of whom, Scott Anthony and filmmaker James Redford, predeceased him.
