Kevin Costner

Actor, producer and director, born on 18 January 1955 in Lynwood, California. At the beginning of the meeting with John Ford's How the West won the (1963) has done to the life of the romance between Kevin Costner and films. Any tendency of young Costner May were forced to follow in the footsteps of the great movie stars, Henry Foundation, James Stewart, John Wayne, and was discouraged at an early stage, he said, is, by nature, practices, and "normal" upbringing. His father, Bill, worked at Southern California Edison, while his mother, Sharon, took a job in the service of the welfare state. 

In high school, Costner played basketball, football and baseball, and he once hoped to become a professional baseball player. During his last years of marketing and finance at California State University at Fullerton, in vain, he heard the school production of Rumpelstiltskin. Meter display, which will be needed later in the light of his career, Costner joined a theater group, and almost immediately he was aware. After graduating in 1978, a breathlessly short passage to the marketing company, Cindy Silva Costner married his beloved college, and moved to Hollywood. 

Costner first movie experience, a role in the smarmy, directly on the video Sizzle Beach, USA, he was one regret, of course, immediately, especially when it is released in cinemas in 1986 after he became famous. After a series of bit parts, Costner landed roles in The Big Chill, a film about the college, after a group of friends in their group, to commit suicide. The film, released in 1983, was a success, but there is a problem for Costner: in the process of editing, director Lawrence Kasdan reduced to fifteen minutes of frame sequences FEATURING Costner character, a man who commits suicide. Costner appears in the film only once, like a corpse in the opening credits. 

According to The Big Chill, as the film critic Peter Rainer noted Costner became a kind of joke inside Hollywood. He kept his head high, and in 1985, Kasdan has made an actor, to adapt the role to him in the sprawling western Silverado, and the role of Kevin Kline and Danny Glover. The film has won admirers for Costner, who was then the least known of the three players. In the next two years, Costner had rejected a number of functions, perhaps to find the character, it determines May In 1987, the "untouchables", directed by Brian De Palma, Costner played Eliot Ness, earnest young officer of the U.S. Treasury, which sought to destroy the gangster Al Capone in Chicago, played in the film by Robert DeNiro. After the success of this film, and in 1988 there was no exit, Costner is a very serious counter market player for sex appeal. 

In 1988, Costner was in his best performance to date, as Crash Davis, an aging catcher with a team of minor league baseball in Bull Durham. His steamy love scenes with Susan Sarandon exponentially increased Costner already enormous reputation as a sex symbol. More importantly, the film marked the first connection has been forged in the eyes of the people of this all-American, and most Americans Password: baseball. In response increased much stronger than a year later, with the release of the field of dreams, in the sentimental story of a man who mows under Article noble Iowa corn to build a baseball field. After the ceremony at the Oscars in 1990 when her debut director Costner, Dances with Wolves, won best film and best director, it is similar to the actor-turned-director in May not in Hollywood. A huge movie that Costner also produced and shot in, dance with wolves is a story of the victim Union army officer, who is adopted by an American Indian tribe. Against All Odds-film of three hours and half of its dialogue in Lakota Sioux dialect with subtitles, very clean Costner epic Western was the hit box-office gross of over $ 900 million.