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Kevin Michael Costner (born on January 18, 1955) is an Oscar winning American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. During his career Costner's films have grossed over $1.3 billion dollars.
Biography
Costner was born in Lynwood, California, the youngest of the three sons of William Costner (an electrician of German and 1/4 Native American descent) and Sharon Tedrick (of Irish descent). He spent his teenage years and pre-actor adulthood in Orange County, California, attending Mt. Whitney High School in the baseball town of Visalia, California, graduating from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California in 1973, and earning a B.A. in business from California State University, Fullerton in 1978, where he was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity. He became interested in acting while still in college, and began taking acting lessons five nights a week. Costner later worked briefly with a California marketing firm. During a chance encounter with actor Richard Burton, who struck up a conversation with him, Burton advised the young man that if he wanted to pursue acting, he should give everything up completely and go after it with both hands. Costner married a Portuguese-American by the name of Cindy Silva. With his wife behind him, Costner worked on fishing boats and as a truck driver, and gave tours of stars' Hollywood homes to support the two while he made the audition rounds.
Success
Costner's most popular success was the epic Dances With Wolves. He directed and starred in the film and served as one of two producers. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won seven, including two for him personally (Best Picture and Best Director). Costner followed this with Prince Of Thieves, the Oliver Stone-directed JFK and The Bodyguard, all of which provided huge box office takings or critical acclaim. Some of his subsequent film efforts have been criticized for being too long and overly serious, and for squandering financial resources. He also took the title role in the biopic Wyatt Earp, directed by established collaborator Lawrence Kasdan, which fizzled at the summer 1994 box office. The science-fiction epics Waterworld and The Postman, the latter of which Costner also directed, were both initially considered major disappointments at the box office. However, Waterworld grossed $264 million worldwide from a $175 million budget (according to IMDB), despite generally poor reviews. Costner's career revived somewhat in 2001 with Thirteen Days, and Open Range, which he directed and starred in, received high critical acclaim as a Revisionist Western, though it was only a minor success commercially. In 2006, he branched into the music field, performing free concerts for charity. A June, 2006 concert netted almost $100,000 for four Shreveport, LA charities. More on [ Kevin Costner ]
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RT @johnhboyer Waterworld cost-to-profit ratio: B+ #bplus << LMAO!!!! And Kevin Costner's $80 million alimony settlement...
NordicMoxie (Nordic Moxie) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:08:01 -0000
RT @johnhboyer Waterworld cost-to-profit ratio: B+ #bplus << LMAO!!!! And Kevin Costner's $80 million alimony settlement...
Kevin Costner's British accent is a solid B+ #bplus
chuck_dizzle (Charly J.) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:52:49 -0000
Kevin Costner's British accent is a solid B+ #bplus
cue kevin costner http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091214/ap_on_sc/climate_gore
g_thomas (George Thomas) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:46:47 -0000
cue kevin costner http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091214/ap_on_sc/climate_gore
Nope screw it, can't stand Kevin Costner for another 2 hours!!! What's on TV???
markus888 (Markus van Schalkwyk) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:21:18 -0000
Nope screw it, can't stand Kevin Costner for another 2 hours!!! What's on TV???
watching the bodygaurd - it was my childhood dream to be kevin costner in that film
DaveyKichens (David Kichens ) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:22:05 -0000
watching the bodygaurd - it was my childhood dream to be kevin costner in that film
Kevin Costner volverá a Rapa Nui #paraunirseafrei
hahott (Hans Hott) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:56:17 -0000
Kevin Costner volverá a Rapa Nui #paraunirseafrei
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