29 Facts About Kevin Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline was born on October 24,1947 and is an American actor.

Kevin Kline is the recipient of an Academy Award and three Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards.

Kevin Kline has gone on to win three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the 1978 original production of On the Twentieth Century, Best Actor in a Musical for the 1981 revival of The Pirates of Penzance.

Kevin Kline made his film debut in romantic drama Sophie's Choice.

Kevin Kline has voiced characters in the films The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Road to El Dorado, The Tale of Despereaux, and the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers, for which he earned a Primetime Emmy nomination.

Kevin Kline has reprised his role in the latter's theatrical feature The Bob's Burgers Movie.

Kevin Kline was born on October 24,1947 in St Louis, Missouri, to Margaret Agnes Kirk and Robert Joseph Kevin Kline.

Kevin Kline's father was a classical music lover and amateur opera singer who owned The Record Bar, a record store in St Louis that opened in the early 19.

Kevin Kline sold toys during the 1960s and 1970s; his father's family owned Kline's Inc.

Kevin Kline described his mother as the "dramatic theatrical character in our family".

Kevin Kline's father was Jewish and his mother Catholic; Kline was raised in his mother's faith.

Kevin Kline has an older sister, Kate, and two younger brothers, Alexander and Christopher.

Kevin Kline graduated from the Saint Louis Priory School in 1965.

Kevin Kline attended Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was a classmate of actor Jonathan Banks.

Kevin Kline began studying composing and conducting music, but switched to a theater and speech major for his last two years, and graduated in 1970.

In 1970, Kevin Kline won a scholarship to the newly formed drama division of the Juilliard School in New York.

In 1976, Kevin Kline left The Acting Company and settled in New York City, doing a brief appearance as Woody Reed in the now-defunct soap opera Search for Tomorrow.

Kevin Kline returned to the stage in 1977 to play Clym Yeobright opposite Donna Theodore as Eustacia Vye in The Hudson Guild Theater production of Dance on a Country Grave, Kelly Hamilton's musical version of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native.

Kevin Kline appeared in a Lincoln Center production that combined the two parts of Henry IV on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 2003 as Falstaff, and was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award for Actor in a Play.

Kevin Kline won the coveted role of the tormented and moody Nathan opposite Meryl Streep.

Streep won an Academy Award for her performance, and Kevin Kline was nominated for a 1983 Golden Globe award and BAFTA Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer To Film.

Kevin Kline played Donald Woods in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom opposite Denzel Washington about the friendship between activist Stephen Biko and editor Donald Woods.

In 1993, Kevin Kline had his first voice-acting role in The Nutcracker, and starred in Dave, a political comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and co-starring Charles Grodin, Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley.

Kevin Kline was inducted in the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2003.

In December 2004, Kevin Kline became the 2,272nd recipient of a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.

Kevin Kline played the title role in King Lear at the Public Theater and took the lead role in a Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jennifer Garner.

In January 2008, Kevin Kline won a Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of Jaques in Kenneth Branagh's film As You Like It, adapted from Shakespeare's play.

Kevin Kline starred in the 2012 comedy Darling Companion with Diane Keaton.

In 2017, Kevin Kline returned to Broadway in a revival of the play Present Laughter, for which he received his third Tony Award.