The award-winning actor and director Robert Redford (Robert Redford) turns 87 today, as he was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California.

In 2018, Redford announced he was retiring from acting – bringing an end to his illustrious career – but left open the possibility of remaining an active director.

Robert Redford’s first major film success was the 1967 film Barefoot in the Park co-starring Jane Fonda, and since then he has made several notable films.

As an actor, he was never awarded an Oscar, although many of his performances caused the excitement of the public and critics in films stations of the 7th Art, such as “The Great Gatsby”, “The Kendry”, “All the President’s Men”, ” Three Days of the Condor”, “Beyond Africa”.

He turned down leading roles in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and “The Rookie” by Mike Nichols, because he was concerned about the possible creation of the “blonde male stereotype”.

However, he received the Golden Statuette in 2002 for his entire body of work.

From the late 1970s, his appearances in front of the camera became less frequent, as he preferred to direct.

He directed nine films, the first of which was “Ordinary People”, for which he was awarded the Oscar for directing in 1981. A native of California, Robert Redford also founded the Sundance film festival in 1978, one of the most important in the world .