Kevin Michael Costner (innate January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who has often produced his have films.

Natural inside Lynwood, California to parents of German, Irish, and Native American descent, Costner spent his teenage years & pre-actor adulthood inside Orange County, California, graduating from Villa Park High School inside Villa Park, California in 1973, and earning the B.A. in business from California State University, Fullerton in 1978. He became concerned withinside acting patch however in college, & began ingesting acting lessons 5 nights the week. Costner late worked briefly by using the Californithe marketing business firm, fallowing a risk encounter by owning actor Richard Burton, who struck higher the conversation using him. Burton got advised a young human that in case he cherished to pursue acting, he should give all about higher all & last when it sustaining each paws. By owning his married woman behind him, Costner worked in fishing smack & as a trucker, & gave tours of stars' Hollywood homes to trend lines them.

Costner's virtually all popular profits was a larger-than-life Dances with Wolves. He directed & asterisked in the film & served when one of 2 producers. A film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including 2 for him personally (Best Picture and Best Director). About completely of his subsequent film efforts use been criticized for existence as well yearn & to a fault good, & for squandering fiscal resources. A science-fiction epos Waterworld and The Postman were both at a start considered major disappointments at the pack professional. But, Waterworld grossed $264 million worldwide from the $175 million budget (based on data from [http://www.imdb.com IMDB]).

Trivia
Costner was cast in the hit The Big Chill. He filmed many scenes which were planned when flashbacks, however it never mass produced it to the final cut. He was a friend world health organization committed suicide, a event as much as which the plot of the motion picture revolves. Completely that is seen of him come his slashed wrist joint when a mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes. Costner was the friend of director Lawrence Kasdan, world health organization late promised the actor the role inside a new plan, which became Silverado and included the break role for Costner.

Filmography

''Stacy's Knights (1982) Chasing Dreams (1982) Night Shift (1982) Frances (1982) Table for Five (1983) The Big Chill (1983) (scenes deleted) Testament (1983) The Gunrunner (1984) Fandango (1985) Silverado (1985) American Flyers (1985) Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. (1986) Shadows Run Black (1986) The Untouchables (1987) No Way Out (1987) Bull Durham (1988) Field of Dreams (1989) Revenge (1990) (also executive producer) Dances with Wolves (1990) (also director & producer) Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (documentary) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) (also producer) JFK (1991) Oliver Stone (1992) (documentary) Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992) (documentary) The Bodyguard (1992) (also producer) A Perfect World (1993) A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary) Wyatt Earp (1994) (also producer) The War (1994) Waterworld (1995) (also director & producer) Tin Cup (1996) Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait (1997) (documentary) The Postman (1997) (also director & producer) Message in a Bottle (1999) (also producer) For Love of the Game (1999) Play It to the Bone (1999) (Cameo) Thirteen Days (2000) (also producer) 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) Dragonfly (2002) Open Range (2003) (also director & producer) The Upside of Anger (2005) Rumor Has It (2005) (currently around post-production) The Tortilla Curtain'' (2005) (currently around pre-production) (as well producer)