79 Facts About Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18,1955 and is an American actor and filmmaker.

Kevin Costner has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Kevin Costner then starred in and co-produced Wyatt Earp and Waterworld, and directed The Postman, Open Range, and Horizon: An American Saga.

Kevin Costner has played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger, Man of Steel, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Hidden Figures, Molly's Game, and Let Him Go.

Kevin Costner was born on January 18,1955, in Lynwood, California, and grew up in Compton, California.

Kevin Costner is the youngest of three boys, the second of whom died at birth.

Sharon Rae Kevin Costner was a welfare worker, and William Kevin Costner was an electrician and a utilities executive.

Kevin Costner was not academically inclined in school, but did play sports, take piano lessons, write poetry, and sing in the First Baptist Choir.

Kevin Costner has said that watching the 1962 film How the West Was Won as a child inspired his love for Western films.

Kevin Costner has stated that he spent his teenage years in different parts of California as his father's career progressed.

Kevin Costner has described this time as a period when he "lost a lot of confidence", having to make new friends often.

Kevin Costner played baseball at Villa Park and was teammates with Dennis Burtt.

Kevin Costner earned a BA from California State University, Fullerton in 1978.

Kevin Costner became interested in acting and dancing while in his last year of college.

In 1978, while on an airplane returning from his honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta, Kevin Costner had a chance encounter with actor Richard Burton.

At that time, Kevin Costner was uncertain about whether he should become an actor, and he approached Burton to ask his advice.

Kevin Costner has said that Burton encouraged him to pursue acting.

Kevin Costner has stated that he asked Burton whether it was possible to be an actor without experiencing turmoil in one's private life; according to Kevin Costner, Burton replied that he thought it was possible.

Kevin Costner took jobs that allowed him to develop his acting skills, by paying his tuition, including working on fishing boats, as a truck driver, and giving tours of movie stars' Hollywood homes.

Kevin Costner made his film debut in Sizzle Beach, USA.

Kevin Costner appeared in a commercial for the Apple Lisa and Table for Five in 1983, and, the same year, had a small role in the nuclear holocaust film Testament.

Kevin Costner's role was that of Alex, the friend who committed suicide, the event that brings the rest of the cast together.

Kevin Costner was a friend of director Lawrence Kasdan, who promised the actor a role in a future project.

Kevin Costner starred that year in the smaller films Fandango and American Flyers and appeared alongside Kiefer Sutherland in an hour-long special episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories.

Kevin Costner achieved movie star status in 1987, when he starred as federal agent Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out.

Kevin Costner solidified his A-list status in the baseball-themed films Bull Durham and Field of Dreams.

Tig's first film was the epic Dances with Wolves which Kevin Costner directed and starred in.

Kevin Costner portrayed Robin Hood in the action-adventure film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves where he served as a producer.

Kevin Costner starred alongside Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman, and Christian Slater.

Kevin Costner then starred as District Attorney Jim Garrison in the Oliver Stone-directed political epic thriller JFK.

Kevin Costner then starred opposite Whitney Houston in the romantic drama The Bodyguard where he served as a producer.

Kevin Costner took the title role in the western biopic Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, where he served as a producer.

The science fiction-post-apocalyptic epics Waterworld and The Postman, the latter of which Kevin Costner directed, were both commercial disappointments and both largely regarded by critics as artistic failures.

Kevin Costner starred in the golf comedy Tin Cup for Ron Shelton, who had previously directed him in Bull Durham.

Kevin Costner developed the film Air Force One and was set to play the lead role of the President, but ultimately decided to concentrate on finishing The Postman instead.

Kevin Costner's career revived somewhat in 2000 with Thirteen Days, in which he portrayed Kenneth O'Donnell, a top adviser to John F Kennedy.

Kevin Costner received some of his best reviews for his supporting role as retired professional baseball player Denny Davies in The Upside of Anger, for which he received a nomination from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Kevin Costner starred opposite Jennifer Aniston in the 2005 movie Rumour Has It.

Kevin Costner was honored on September 6,2006, when his hand and foot prints were set in concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre alongside those of other celebrated actors and entertainers.

Kevin Costner announced that he would be returning to the director's chair for the first time in seven years, in 2011, with A Little War of Our Own.

Kevin Costner was about to team up again with director Kevin Reynolds in Learning Italian.

Kevin Costner appears, as a special cameo, in Funny or Die "Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout".

Kevin Costner portrayed Jonathan Kent in the rebooted Superman film Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder.

Kevin Costner was going to have a role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.

In 2014, Kevin Costner appeared in the spy movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, as Thomas Harper, a mentor for the series' title character.

In 2015, Kevin Costner played coach Jim White in the drama film McFarland, USA, about cross-country running.

In 2019, Kevin Costner starred in The Art of Racing in the Rain, where he voiced Enzo the dog.

Two guitars, one autographed by Kevin Costner, helped raise another $10,000 each.

Kevin Costner has appeared in the documentary film Country Roads by Marieke Schroder.

Several of Kevin Costner's films have included a baseball theme: Chasing Dreams, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For Love of the Game, and The Upside of Anger, in three of which his character is a pro baseball player and one a former pro baseball player.

Kevin Costner has a home in Austin, Texas, and sometimes appears at Texas Longhorns baseball practices and games.

Kevin Costner was a close friend of former Longhorns baseball coach Augie Garrido from Garrido's days coaching at Cal State Fullerton, Costner's alma mater.

Kevin Costner cast Garrido to play the role of the Yankee manager in For Love of the Game.

Kevin Costner tries to attend every College World Series game that the CSUF Titans team plays in Omaha, Nebraska.

Kevin Costner walked on for a tryout, but did not make the team early in his time at the university.

Kevin Costner was a partial owner of the Zion, Illinois-based Lake County Fielders independent baseball team in the North American League.

In 1995, Kevin Costner bought a company that was developing oil separation machines based on a patent he purchased from the US government.

The machines developed by the company were of little commercial interest until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, when BP took six of the machines from a company in which Kevin Costner owned an interest, Ocean Therapy Solutions, for testing in late May 2010.

On June 6,2004, Kevin Costner opened Tatanka: The Story of the Bison one mile south of Deadwood, South Dakota, on US Route 85, saying he hoped it would be an educational and emotional place for people to learn about America's westward expansion.

Kevin Costner hired Francis and Carla Caneva to manage the establishment and gave each of them a 3.25 percent ownership and paid them salaries and bonuses.

Kevin Costner terminated their employment in July 2004 and asked to agree to an amicable disassociation.

The Canevas sued Kevin Costner to buy their shares based on twice that amount or sell the company on the open market.

Kevin Costner closed the establishment in 2017 and sold it in 2020.

In 2020, Kevin Costner joined Woody Sears's new audio entertainment travel app, HearHere, as a co-founder, podcast narrator, and investor.

Kevin Costner narrates some of the audio stories provided by the iPhone subscription app for travelers on road trips across the United States who want to hear about the people, places, and histories they are encountering on their travels.

Kevin Costner serves on an honorary board for the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

Kevin Costner was named ceremonial Grand Marshal of the NASCAR Cup Series' Auto Club 500 which took place on February 25,2007, at the California Speedway.

In 2015, Costner co-authored The Explorer's Guild: A Passage to Shambhala, a hybrid adventure novel and graphic novel, with John Baird, researcher Stephen C Meyer, and illustrator Rick Ross.

Kevin Costner has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

In 1975, while in college, Kevin Costner started dating fellow student Cindy Silva, and they married three years later.

The couple divorced in 1994 after 16 years of marriage, due to Kevin Costner allegedly having an affair while on the set of Waterworld.

On September 25,2004, Kevin Costner married his girlfriend of four years, model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner, at his ranch in Aspen, Colorado.

Kevin Costner was both a supporter and friend of Ronald Reagan, frequently playing golf with the former president.

Kevin Costner eventually switched his affiliation in the early 1990s.

Since 1992, Kevin Costner has financially supported a variety of Democratic politicians, including Al Gore and Tom Daschle, but made contributions to Republican Phil Gramm as late as 1995.

In October 2014, Kevin Costner sent a tribute to British troops serving around the world, thanking them for their work.

On December 22,2019, Kevin Costner endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg at a rally in Indianola, Iowa.

Kevin Costner narrated a commercial for JD Scholten, a Democrat running for the US House of Representatives from.

Kevin Costner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.