Kevin Costner
Two-time Academy Award-winning American actor and filmmaker celebrated for iconic roles spanning four decades of Hollywood cinema.
Kevin Costner - Personal Information
- Name: Kevin Costner
- Date of Birth: January 18, 1955
- Place of Birth: Lynwood, California, USA
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Producer, Executive Producer, Director, Story, Screenplay
Biography
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado and many other films. He rose to prominence with his starring roles in The Untouchables and No Way Out (1987). He then starred in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld. His second directorial feature, The Postman, was released in 1997.
He later starred in Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Dragonfly (2002), Rumor Has It (2005), The Guardian (2006), Mr. Brooks (2007), 3 Days to Kill (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), Draft Day (2014), and Criminal (2016). He has also played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020).
On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the drama series Yellowstone for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Selected Filmography
A selection of Kevin Costner's most recent screen appearances across film and television.
- Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas (2025) as Self - Host
- John Candy: I Like Me (2025) as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Kevin Costner's The West (TV - 2025) as Self - Host
- Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner (TV - 2025) as Self - Host
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) as Hayes Ellison
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) as Hayes Ellison
- How to Rob a Bank (2024) as Robin Hood (archive footage)
- 100 Years of Warner Bros. (TV - 2023) as Self
- Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' (2022) as Self (archive footage)
- Yellowstone: One-Fifty (TV - 2022) as Self
External Links
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