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.jpg) Robin Williams
Birthday: July 21, 1951
Birth
Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Height: 5' 8"
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Whether he is performing on stage, television, or in the movies or participating in a serious interview, listening to and watching comedian/actor Robin Williams is an extraordinary experience. An improvisational master with a style comparable to Danny Kaye, his words rush forth in a gush of manic energy. They punctuate even the most basic story with sudden subject detours that often dissolve into flights of comic fancy and unpredictable celebrity impressions before returning earthward with some pithy comment or dead-on observation.Williams was born on July 21, 1951, in Chicago, the son of a Ford Motor Company executive. His parents were middle-aged when he was born and while both had grown children from previous marriages, Williams was raised as an only child and had much time alone with which to develop his imagination. One way in which he entertained himself was to memorize Jonathan Winters' comedy records. As his father rose amongst the Ford hierarchy, the Williams family moved frequently. Williams was a pudgy child and was often the new kid in the private schools where he received his education. Much of his quick humor developed as a defense mechanism against the teasing he endured. His father retired during Williams' senior year in high school and permanently settled the family in Marin County, CA. Williams finally found a niche at school, and by the time he graduated, he was physically fit, popular, and voted the funniest and most likely to succeed. After high school, Williams studied political science at Claremont Men's College and also got involved in improvisational comedy. Interestingly, despite his lifelong interest in funny business, Williams initially trained to be a serious actor, first at Marin College in California and then at Juilliard under John Houseman. While at Juilliard, he helped pay his tuition by working as a mime. After leaving the prestigious art school, he returned to California to perform standup on the club circuit. It was during this time that he honed his tendency to move quickly from idea to idea. His first real break came after an appearance in L.A.'s Comedy Store, which in turn led to a regular gig on George Schlatter's short-lived, late '70s reincarnation of Laugh-In. From there, Williams was cast as a crazy space alien on a fanciful episode of Happy Days. William's portrayal of Mork from Ork delighted audiences and generated so great a response that producer Garry Marshall gave Williams his own sitcom, Mork and Mindy, which ran from 1978 to 1982. The show was a hit and established Williams as one of the most popular comedians (along with Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal) of the '70s and '80s. Though his ceaseless ad-libbing can grate on sensitive nerves, there is something teddy bearish about Williams that makes him tolerable; it certainly made Mork one of television's most popular characters. Williams made his starring film debut in the title role of Robert Altman's elaborate but financially unsuccessful comic fantasy Popeye (1980). Three years earlier, Williams had appeared in the bawdy comic revue Can I Do It...Till I Need Glasses? (1977). He flexed his dramatic muscles in his next film, The World According to Garp (1982), but again did not find box-office success. Two more unsuccessful films followed, one of which, Moscow on the Hudson (1983), demonstrated his skill with foreign accents. Williams finally became a bona fide star when he was cast as real life military disc jockey Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning, Vietnam. Whereas the real Cronauer was a rather quiet man, Williams' interpretation showed the comic at his maniacal best. Director Barry Levinson allowed Williams to pepper his radio monologues with plenty of humorous ad-libs. The film was a smash hit and earned Williams his first Oscar nomination. His subsequent film career had its share of high and low points. He was remarkably restrained as an introverted scientist trying to help a catatonic Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990) and exuberant as an inspirational English teacher in the comedy/drama Dead Poets Society (1989), a role which earned him his second Oscar nomination. His tragi-comic portrayal of a mad, homeless man in search of salvation and the Holy Grail in The Fisher King earned him a third nomination. In 1993, Williams lent his voice to two popular animated movies, Ferngully: The Last Rain Forest and most notably Aladdin, in which he played a rollicking genie and was allowed to go all out with ad-libs, improvs, and scads of celebrity improvisations. In 1993, Williams undertook an ambitious project with Being Human in which a man's troubled relationship with his wife is relived in five vignettes representing wildly different historical errors. The film was more experimental than other Williams efforts and the comedy was largely absent. While this film flopped, his other 1993 film, Mrs. Doubtfire, in which he played a recently divorced father who masquerades as a Scottish nanny to be close to his kids, was one of the year's biggest hits. He had another hit in 1995 playing a rather staid homosexual club owner opposite a hilariously fey Nathan Lane in The Bird Cage. In 1997, Williams turned in one of his best dramatic performances in Good Will Hunting, a performance for which he was rewarded with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Since the success of Good Will Hunting, Williams has kept busy with films that have produced mixed critical and commercial results. Both of his 1998 films, the comedy Patch Adams and What Dreams May Come, a vibrantly colored exploration of the afterlife, received decidedly mixed reviews, although they fared respectably at the box office. Williams has also had the opportunity to play himself in the documentary Get Bruce, which features such fellow notables as Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, and his partner from The Bird Cage, Nathan Lane. He next had starring roles in both Bicentennial Man and Jakob the Liar, playing a robot-turned-human in the former and a prisoner of the Warsaw ghetto in the latter. Unfortunately, neither one of these films was particularly well received, with many critics and Williams fans wondering when the actor would forsake the maudlin sentimentality of his current roles for the excoriating humor he had exhibited to such great and enduring effect in his earlier films.Though it was obvious to all that Williams' waning film career needed an invigorating breath of fresh air, many may not have expected the dark 180-degree turn he attempted in 2002 with roles in Death to Smoochy, Insomnia and One Hour Photo. Catching audiences off-guard with his portrayal of three deeply disturbed and tortured souls, the roles pointed to a new stage in Williams' career in which he would substitute the sap for more sinister motivations. Absent from the big-screen in 2003, Williams continued his vacation from comedy in 2004, starring in the little-seen thriller The Final Cut and in the David Duchovny-directed melodrama The House of D. After appearing in the comedy documentary The Aristocrats and lending his voice to a character in the animated adventure Robots in 2005, he finally returned full-time in 2006 with roles in the vacation laugher RV and the crime comedy Man of the Year. Just as estatic fans celebrated Williams' apparent return to funny buisness after a steady string of fairly grim dramas and thrillers, the ever-unpredictable talent threw in an unexpected curve-ball by taking the lead in the director Patrick Stettner's big screen adaptation of Armistead Maupin's controversial novel The Night Listener. A tense and erosive tale of literary trickery fueled by such serious issues as child abuse and AIDS, The Night Listener found Williams' balance between comic features and more serious films becoming ever more delicate. In addition to his considerable film work, Williams has recorded three albums, appeared in a multitude of television comedy specials, and since the 1980s has been a primary host of Comic Relief, an annual televised benefit for the homeless. During the '80s, Williams overcame a serious drug addiction, divorced his first wife, and married his son's nanny, who has since become his manager and the mother of his daughter and second son.
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- Moved to San Francisco when he was 16.
- Studied acting briefly at Julliard under John Houseman. Houseman told him he was wasting his talent at Juilliard and he should strike out on his own and do stand-up comedy.
- Resides with his family in San Francisco's Seacliff neighborhood.
- Was set to play Drew Barrymore's father in the film Home Fries (1998) and had the role during production, but pulled out of the part days before his scenes were to be shot.
- Son, with Williams, Cody. [1992]
- Daughter, with Williams, Zelda. [1989]
- Son, with Velardi, Zachary, born. [1983]
- Ranked #63 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
- Voted funniest man alive by Entertainment Weekly. [1997]
- When he auditioned for the role of Mork from Ork, he met Garry Marshall who told him to sit down. Robin immediately sat on his head on the chair. Marshall immediately chose him saying that he was the only alien who auditioned.
- During the making of "Mork & Mindy" (1978), Williams departed from the scripts and ad libbed so many times and so well, that the producers stop trying to make him stick to the script and deliberately left gaps in the later scripts leaving only "Mork can go off here" in those places so Robin could improvise.
- Was considered for the role of the Riddler in Batman Forever (1995).
- In 1979, Robin released an album "Reality...What a Concept" on Casablanca Record and Film Works.
- Was set to appear on an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) as the time traveler Prof. Berlinghoff Rasmussen, but a schedule conflict forced him to drop out (the role eventually went to Matt Frewer). He was inspired to seek a Trek role by his friend Whoopi Goldberg, who made several appearances on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) as the bartender Guinan.
- Is a fan of the sport of Rugby Union, and in particular New Zealand All Black star Jonah Lomu, who flew to San Francisco and gifted him with a signed All Black jersey. On a recent visit to New Zealand they were reunited on national TV, Williams humbly accepting another All Black jersey, except this time it had Jonah's number 11 on the back.
- Attended Claremont Men's College, where he played soccer.
- Listed as one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Best Actors [1998]
- He is a fan of the comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969).
- Studied at Juliard with actor Christopher Reeve. The two remained good friends until Christopher Reeve's death in 2004.
- Enjoys cycling and occasionally trains with Lance Armstrong.
- After having won the academy award for Good Will Hunting (1997), he sent Peer Augustinski (who is his standard German dubbing voice) a little Oscar replica with a note: "Thank you for making me famous in Germany".
- Graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, north of San Francisco. Other famous alumni from Redwood include Gabrielle Carteris ("Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990)) and Erin Gray (Kate from "Silver Spoons" (1982)), Gabrielle Carteris, Erin Grey and Jason Branson, radio talk show guest/therapist and author.
- Winner Of The Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Comedy Album" Robin Williams – Live 2002. This was in 2003.
- Hit #104 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1980 with "I Yam What I Yam" (Boardwalk 5701)
- Ranked #7 in Star TV's Top 10 Box Office Stars of the 1990s (2003)
- Shares birthday with Josh Hartnett.
- Actor reached a unique milestone in 1996, he had two of his films reach the 0 million mark in the USA exactly the same week, Jumanji (1995) and The Birdcage (1996).
- Was voted "Least Likely to Succeed" by his fellow graduates at Larkspur.
- Early in his career he told a reporter that he was born in Scotland. His original press releases do indeed list Scotland as his place of birth. He admits now that he was "under the influence" at the time he said this. He was really born in Chicago
- He was voted the 50th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
- 1 week after Christopher Reeve's tragic horse riding accident, Robin visited him in the hospital. However, he was dressed from head to toe in scrubs, spoke with a Russian accent, and had a surgical mask on. He was acting as if he was a real doctor and did a bunch of wacky antics. After he took off his mask, Reeve stated that, "That was the first time he laughed since the accident!"
- Helped his long time friend Christopher Reeve pay his medical bills during his final years following the horse riding accident.
- When 'Blame Canada', a song from South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999), was nominated for a Best Song Academy Award, it was Williams who performed the song at the ceremony, because the actress who sang the song in the film, Mary Kay Bergman, had committed suicide a few months prior to the awards show.
- He was considered for the role of Joe Miller in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993). Denzel Washington was cast instead.
- An activist liberal supporter of the US Democratic Party, Williams has been outspoken about his opposition to the war in Iraq. However, he has become the most consistent entertainer of U.S. troops since the war has began, leading some to dub him the next 'Bob Hope' .
- Has been seen in playing paintball at public reservations near his Northern California residence.
- He was a very overweight child. As a result, nobody would play with him. He started talking in different voices to entertain himself.
- Dedicated his winning the Cecille B. DeMille award at the 2004 Golden Globes to friend Christopher Reeve.
- Most of his dialogue in Aladdin (1992) is ad-libbed.
- Was a guest on Johnny Carson's last episode of the "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (1962), along with Bette Midler.
- Is of Welsh and Scottish heritage.
- Graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California.
- He and his Being Human (1993) and Robots (2005) cast mate, Ewan McGregor, have both shared a role with Alec Guinness. McGregor, of course, played the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels. Williams appeared in Kenneth Branagh's _Hamlet_ , as Osric, a part that Guinness had played on stage opposite John Gielgud. Williams also shares that part with another Star Wars actor, Peter Cushing, who played the same role in the same year in the film, opposite Laurence Olivier.
- Co-owns the Rubicon restaurant in San Francisco with Robert De Niro and fellow Bay area resident Francis Ford Coppola.
- Wrote the foreword to Gary Larson's book, "The Far Side: Gallery 4" (1993).
- After a 20 year break from doing stand up comedy, he came back in 2002 with a show live on Broadway. It won a Grammy for best spoken word album in 2003.
- Though he is highly regarded for his ability to perform numerous different voices, he only has lent his voice to five animated features: FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Aladdin (1992), _Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) (V)_ , Robots (2005), and Happy Feet (2006). However, he did have the occupation of doing voice over work for a cartoon on Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), played a small role in the TV animated short A Wish for Wings That Work (1991) (TV), and has done narration for different rides and attractions at Disney World. He has also done the voice for the character "Dr. Know" in the movie "A.I. Artificial Intelligence", which is in itself not a animated movie.
- He's an only child
- Performed at the opening of the San Francisco Comedy Competition in 1976 against Dana Carvey, Harry Anderson and A. Whitney Brown.
- Is a fan of Doctor Who
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