Tim Robbins:
Is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musiciam
Birth Name: Timothy Francis Robbins

Born: October 16, 1958 (age 57), West Covina, California, United States 

 The son of a folk singer, he grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village. His breakout film role was in Bull Durham (1988), and he gave a notable performance for director Robert Altman in The Player and Shortcuts. Robbins was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of Dead Man Walking and won an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Mystic River. Robbins had a 23-year relationship with actress Susan Sarandon, which ended in 2009. They have two children.

Early Life:

He moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age, while his father pursued a career as a member of the folk music group, The Highwaymen. Robbins started performing in theater at age twelve and joined the drama club at Stuyvesant High School. Spent two years at SUNY Plattsburgh and then returned to California to study at the UCLA Film School, graduating in 1982.

Breakthrough Role:

 Began acting as a teenager with the Theatre for the New City.  helped found the theater group known as The Actor’s Gang. After a number of small roles, his first role like a  player in Bull Durham (1988) with Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon.

 In 1982, he appeared as domestic terrorist Andrew Reinhardt in three episodes of the television program St. Elsewhere. In 1985, he guest-starred in the second episode of the television series Moonlighting, "Gunfight at the So-So Corral". He also took small parts in films, such as the role of frat animal "Mother" in Fraternity Vacation (1985) and "Lt. Sam 'Merlin' Wells" in the fighter pilot film Top Gun (1986).


Career Highlights:

 Showing his great range as a performer. In Jacob’s Ladder (1990). Working with director Robert Altman, Robbins shined as the sharp, but shady movie executive in The Player (1992) and as an unfaithful, power-abusing cop in Short Cuts (1993). Around this time, Robbins also made the political mock documentary Bob Roberts (1992). Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption (1994), which was based on Stephen King's short story.


Robbins has written, produced, and directed several films , such as the critically acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead Man Walking (1995), starring Sarandon and Sean Penn. The film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director.  His next directorial effort was 1999's Depression-era musical Cradle Will Rock. Has also appeared in mainstream Hollywood thrillers,  Arlington Road in 1990 (as a suspected terrorist) and 2001's Antitrust (as a malicious computer tycoon), Is good friends with John Cusack, in addition to being his co-star in six films: Bob Roberts (1992), Abajo el telón (1999), Alta fidelidad (2000), Las reglas del juego (1992), The Sure Thing (1985), and Tapeheads (1988).

Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River (2003),directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.  In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard. His most recent acting roles include a temporarily blind man who is nursed to health by a psychologically wounded young woman in The Secret Life of Words. In early 2006, Robbins directed an adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984, written by Michael Gene Sullivan. In 2008, Robbins appeared in The Lucky Ones, with co-star Rachel McAdams as well as City Of Ember,  next film role was as Senator Hammond, the disapproving father of the film's villain Hector Hammond, 


Recent Work:

Actually Robbins has appeared in the independent drama The Secret Life of Words (2005), the family friendly fantasy Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and War of the Worlds (2005). He also lent his voice to the animated political satire about the Iraqi War, Embedded (2005).

Personal Life:

In 1988 Robbins entered into a relationship with actress Susan Sarandon, whom he met on the set of Bull Durham. They have two sons: John "Jack" Henry (born May 15, 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born May 4, 1992). Robbins, like Sarandon, is a lapsed Catholic, and they both share liberal political views. The end of Robbins' relationship with Sarandon was announced in late December 2009.