Tim Robbins

Born October 16, 1958 in West Covina, California and raised in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Tim Robbins has a long list of notable credits as an actor, director, writer and producer of films and theater.

Key acting roles are in such films as A Perfect Day, The Secret Life of Words, Catch a Fire, Mystic River, The Player, Short Cuts, The Shawshank Redemption, The Hudsucker Proxy, War of the Worlds, Arlington Road, Code 46, Human Nature, Five Corners, Anchorman, Austin Powers, Jacob’s Ladder, Bull Durham and HBO’s The Brink.

Robbins has won numerous awards for his acting including an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River, Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe for Best Actor for The Player, and a Golden Globe as a member of the ensemble in Short Cuts. 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. He was most recently nominated for A Perfect Day as Best Supporting Actor at Spain’s Goya Awards in 2015 and in 2014 at the Golden Globes.for his performance in HBO’s Cinema Verite.

As a film director, Robbins distinguished himself with Cradle Will Rock, which he also wrote and produced, winning the National Board of Review Award for Special Achievement in Filmmaking in the United States and Best Film and Best Director at the Sitges Film Festival in Barcelona.