Kevin Costner biography 2022

Kevin Costner biography

Kevin Costner (Kevin Michael Costner) was born on January 18, 1955, an American actor who, in a few years, became one of the most famous movie stars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Kevin Costner's breakthrough came in 1987 in Roger Donaldson's thriller No Way Out and Brian De Palma's gangster epic The Untouchables. Then he hit cemented his position with the character role in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991), about the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.

Kevin Costner achieved great success when he stubbornly and independently of the established production system directed himself in the alternative western Dances With Wolves (1990), which received an Oscar for, among other things. Best movie.

Kevin Costner subsequently had leading roles in, among others, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Lawrence Kasdan's romantic drama The Bodyguard (1992), and the same director's western Wyatt Earp (1994). However, the large-scale future drama Waterworld (1995), in which Kevin Costner played the lead role and helped produce, did not have the expected success.

Kevin Costner has since been seen in, e.g., the golf comedy Tin Cup (1996), Roger Donaldson's political-historical thriller Thirteen Days (2000), The Upside of Anger (2005), and the psychological thriller Mr. Brooks (2007).


last updated October 2022