- Born
- Birth nameTimothy Francis Robbins
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim
Robbins is the son of former
The Highwaymen singer
Gil Robbins and actress
Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins
studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That
same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, an experimental
ensemble that expressed radical political observations through the
European avant-garde form of theater. He started film work in
television movies in 1983, but hit the big time in 1988 with his
portrayal of dimwitted fastball pitcher "Nuke" Laloosh in
Bull Durham (1988). Tall with
baby-faced looks, he has the ability to play naive and obtuse
(Cadillac Man (1990) and
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994))
or slick and shrewd (The Player (1992)
and Bob Roberts (1992)).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ray Hamel
- SpouseGratiela Brancusi(February 1, 2017 - August 25, 2022) (divorced)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesDavid Robbins(Sibling)Adele Robbins(Sibling)
- Soft mellow voice
- Towering height and slender frame
- Films often reflect his liberal political views
- Understated but emotional performances
- Slow mannered delivery
- After the September 11 attacks, he tried to fly out of New York City to
be with Susan Sarandon and their children in Hollywood. Upon finding out that
all flights were grounded, he and a friend drove from New York City to
Los Angeles in a 56-hour trip that began on the morning of September
12, 2001. - At 6'5", he is the tallest actor ever to have won an Oscar. The tallest actor ever nominated was James Cromwell at 6'7".
- During an interview with Charlie Rose regarding the 10-year anniversary of
The Shawshank Redemption (1994), he said he regarded that film, Bull Durham (1988), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Mystic River (2003)
as the highlights of his career so far. - Lived with Susan Sarandon from 1988 to 2009. They have two sons.
- He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Top Gun (1986) and The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
- [on his screenwriting] I always write from an actor's perspective,
which is writing dialogue that fits comfortably into one's mouth, as
opposed to dialogue that is strained and defective. - A movie script is a malleable entity when you're shooting and should
be able to become different things and should be able to be rewritten
at the last minute. - I'm fairly competent as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as
a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take
criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,'
and then tell me what you think could be changed. - We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and
misdemeanors of the president of the United States.
[Bill Clinton] lied about a blowjob and got impeached by the
media and Congress. [George W. Bush] got us into the Iraq war
based on lies that he knew were lies . . . His war has recruited more
Al-Qaeda members than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed for . .
. yet no one in the media is calling for impeachment. Unfortunately,
the book and the play is more relevant now than it ever has been. It
talks about continuous warfare as a means to control the Western
economy, and as a way to control rebel elements within society through
the use of fear, constant fear. In my country we seem to be sanctioning
renditioning of innocent people without trial . . . put them in jail
without telling anyone . . . and torture them out of suspicion of what
we think they might do. This is exactly what [George Orwell] was
talking about when he spoke of thought crimes. - I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper.
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