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American actor and filmmaker (born )

This article is about the American actor and filmmaker. For the American virologist and medical researcher, see Robert R.

Redfield.

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, ) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B.

DeMille Award in , the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in , the Academy Honorary Award in , the Kennedy Center Honors in , the Presidential Medal of Freedom in , and the Honorary César in He was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world in ^[1][2]

Appearing onstage in the late s, Redford's television career began in , with appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in and The Twilight Zone in His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park ().

Redford made his film debut in W