Robert Redford Dead at 89

Robert Redford — the legendary Oscar-winning actor and director — has died, TMZ has confirmed.

Redford’s rep, Cindi Berger, tells us … Robert handed away Tuesday morning at his dwelling in Sundance, Utah. Berger says Robert was surrounded by the individuals he liked within the place he liked. His explanation for demise has not been revealed.

The beloved artist spent a long time as a number one actor in Hollywood, with a few of his most notable tasks being As 1969’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child,” 1973’s “The Sting,” 1975’s “Three Days of the Condor” and 1976’s “All of the President’s Males.”

He additionally labored with various Hollywood’s favourite main women, together with Jane Fonda in 1967’s “Barefoot within the Park,” Barbra Streisand in 1973’s “The Approach We Had been” and Meryl Streep in 1985’s “Out of Africa.”

Redford transitioned into directing in 1980, along with his debut movie “Odd Folks” profitable main vital and business success — and touchdown him an Oscar for Greatest Director.

His footage are recognized for intertwining political narratives in them, and he is broadly considered probably the most impactful individuals in cinema.

His prolific performing and directing profession apart, Redford can be recognized for founding the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit devoted to showcasing impartial filmmakers, in 1981. He took helm of a struggling movie pageant in 1984, which turned the enduring movie pageant in Park Metropolis, Utah we all know and love right this moment.

In 2012, he reportedly expressed distate for a way common the pageant turned.

The “Our Souls at Evening” star was a serious advocate for environmental and local weather justice as properly, performing as a trustee for the Pure Sources Protection Council for 30 years.

Redford advised Rolling Stone in 2021 his “wake-up” name to the significance of environmental advocacy occured throughout a convention he attended in Colorado in 1989, throughout which he discovered about international warming.