BIOGRAPHY

Born October 16, 1958 in West Covina, California and raised in New York City, Tim Robbins has a long list of notable film credits as an actor, director, writer and producer. Key acting roles are in such films as Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River, Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46, Jonathan Demme’s The Truth About Charlie, Michel Gondry’s Human Nature, Robert Altman’s The Player and Short Cuts, Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, The Coen Brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy, his own Bob Roberts, Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder and Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham.
Robbins has won numerous awards for his acting including an Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award as Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River and Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe for Best Actor for The Player. He was nominated by the Golden Globes for Best Actor for Bob Roberts and by the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor for The Shawshank Redemption.
As a director, Robbins distinguished himself with Cradle Will Rock, which he also wrote and produced, winning Best Film and Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona and the National Board of Review Award for Special Achievement in Filmmaking in the United States. Dead Man Walking, which he also wrote and produced, won multiple awards including the Humanitas Award and four awards at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay. His first film, Bob Roberts, won Best Film Award at the Young Tokyo International Festival and Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor at the Boston Film Festival.

Robbins also serves as Artistic Director for the Actors’ Gang, a group formed in 1982 that has over 80 productions and more than 100 awards to their credit. As a playwright he has written 7 plays produced in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and at the Edinburgh Festival. His latest play, Embedded, ran for over four months at the Actors’ Gang Theater in Los Angeles, four months at the Public Theater in New York, and will be opening at the Riverside Theatre in London’s West End in September 2004.

Robbins lives in New York City with his partner in crime, Susan Sarandon, and is the proud father of 3 mischievous children.

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