Actor Robin Williams has died.One of the best performers in the cinema for the past 30 years and who has died at 63.In Overhistory we now review the biography of Robin Williams.
Robin Williams Biography
Robin McLaurim Williams, known as Robin Williams He had countless titles featured in the cinema, including "Good Morning Vietnam", "The Fisher King" or "The Club of the Dead Poets" for which he was nominated for Oscar for Best Actor.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951 .He was the son of a model and an executive in the automobile industry.His first years were dedicated to his studies and Sports practice, without showing any interest in the ctuacion.
In 1967 the family moved to Marina County, in California, and that is where Donce began his attraction to the theater, so decides to go to New York to enter the Juilliard School drama school.
His first acting opportunity comes in 1976 with a first role in a comedy .In 1977 I debuted on television with the series "Laugh-in". Two years later I starred in the television series "Mork and Mindy", in which I play an alien, a role that gave him popularity and for which he won his first Golden Globe.
In a first stage of success, Williams is fond of alcohol and cocaine; nevertheless, the death by overdose of his friend of parrandas, John Belushi, makes him reconsider and want to rehabilitate himself.
In the cinema he begins his career in 1980 after embodying Popeye in the movie that directed by Robert Altman, who did not report much success but it did make him known to the general public and the one who began to chain movie after movie.This film was followed by "The World According to Garp" (1982), by George Roy Hill, so many have already highlighted their skills to mix comedy and drama in the same character.
"Good morning, Vietnam", is the movie that marks a before and after in his career. It makes him the winner of his second Golden Globe and his first Oscar nomination.
Continuous success with "The club of the dead poets", in which his character is from a literature teacher , and "The king fisherman" (third Golden Globe), in which he characterizes a wanderer.These two works report another two new nominations.
The actor married dancer Valerie Velardi in 1978, but their relationship ended after nine years and the birth of his son Zachary. In 1989 he again married the producer Marsha Garces with whom he had two other children, Cody Allan and Zelda.
His concern for people in need motivated him to create, together with his wife, the Windmill Foundation, which he raises funds for profit.
In 2009 the actor married for the third time with Susan Schneiderg, who accompanied him during an operation due to a defective coronary valve.
The 90s were another time of glory for the actor that I accept to be in hilarious comedies like "Mrs Doubtfire" and at the same time in dramas as outstanding as "The Indomitable Will Hunting" that allows him to win his first Oscar .Also highlights his work in "Aladdin" where I double the character of the lamp genius.
Among his recent performances in the Seventh Art are "A night at the museum" (2006), " August rush »(2007) and« License to wed »(2007).
In addition, he lent his voice to the movie« Happy feet »(2006) and had small participation in the television series« The Law and order ”, in 2008 and last year he had worked on the series“ The Crazy Ones ”for the CBS network.This year he had shot the third part of“ Night at the Museum ”that is still pending release.
Death of Robin Williams
On August 11, 2014 the Marin County police reported the death of the actor at his home in Tiburon (California).
According to the press release provided by the police office, the police department received a call at around 11:55 in the morning (local time) in which he was informed of the appearance of an unconscious man who did not breathe in a house in the town of Tiburon.
Although there were no causes of the death and the police opened an investigation, the first information indicates that it would be suicide by suffocation.
Before his death on August 11, 2014, Williams had been in the month of June at the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center, located in Minnesota , in order to enroll in a program to maintain and reaffirm the sobriety with which I had been living for almost a decade.
«This morning I lost my husband and my best friend while the world has lost au not one of his dearest artists and one of his best people.I have a broken heart, " declared the actor's wife, Susan Schneider.
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