Birth name: Kevin Michael Costner
Occupation: Actor, Director, Producer
Date of Birth: January 18, 1955
Place of Birth: Lynnwood, Calif., USA
Sign: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Sagittarius
Relations: Ex-wife: Cindy Silva; kids: Annie, Lily, and Joe (with Cindy); Liam (with socialite Bridget Rooney); father: Bill Costner (power company worker); mother: Sharon Costner (welfare worker); brother: Dan Costner; companion: Christine Baumgartner
Education: California State University at Fullerton

With the success of 1987’s The Untouchables and 1988’s No Way Out, Costner had become an infinitely marketable box-office commodity—a serious actor loaded with sex appeal.

His frontal nude scene in For Love Of The Game (1999) was reportedly deleted after being met with laughter at test screenings.

Movie actor Kevin Costner's hair is thinning so much he is thinking of shaving his head completely.

Flashback scenes in The Big Chill (1983) with Kevin Costner as Alex were filmed, but cut. He is still visible as the body being dressed at the beginning of the film.

Both Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell played Wyatt Earp in 1994 Costner in Wyatt Earp, Russell in Tombstone.

He is shown at times drinking Shiner Bock Beer in Tin Cup (1996). This beer is brewed in Shiner, Texas, and not well-known nationwide. Where has this beer been in movies before? In the movie Fandango, in the hands of Kevin Costner.

In A Perfect World (1993), Butch (Kevin Costner) and Philip visit a Friendly Dept. Store, outside of which there is a poster advertising Bull Durham cigarettes. Kevin Costner starred in Bull Durham (1988).

Reportedly also offered the Judge Wakefield part in Traffic (2000).

In high school, Costner played basketball, football, and baseball; he hoped at one time to become a professional baseball player.

Was nominated for Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Drama/Romance in 2000 for Message In A Bottle.

After graduating from California State University at Fullerton in 1978, and a breathlessly short stint at a marketing firm, Costner married Cindy Silva, his college sweetheart, and moved to Hollywood.

Rumors abound that director Kevin Reynolds walked off the set with two weeks of Waterworld (1995) filming left, and Costner completed the film.

Rumour has it that he wanted to use a British accent in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (1991), but director Kevin Reynolds didn't want him to. Supposedly, Costner would affect the accent when he was arguing with Reynolds, but not when they were in agreement. Costner claims that he was initially asked to use an accent, but this was stopped when he did it poorly.

Thirteen Days (2000) is the second movie about President Kennedy in which he stars as someone other than Kennedy. The first was JFK (1991).

Film of Billy Chapel as a child in For Love Of The Game is actually young Kevin and his families home videos in his minor league baseball coached by his father.

Kevin Costner's character in Dragonfly (2002) was written with the intention of Harrison Ford taking the film role. Ford turned down the role to take a year off from movies.

Costner & Ford's casting choices have crossed paths many times before. Harrison Ford turned down the Jack Ryan role in The Hunt For Red October (1990) as did Kevin Costner. Ford instead made Presumed Innocent (1990) and Costner made his Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves (1990). The Jack Ryan role went to then character-actor Alec Baldwin.

Harrison Ford later turned down the Jim Garrison role in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) and Kevin Costner decided to take it after a meeting with the director Stone.

The president of the United States role in the mega-blockbuster Air Force One (1997) was written specifically for Kevin Costner. In fact, Kevin Costner helped develop the action film with Beacon Communications and writer Andrew Marlowe in 1996. But, Kevin had to eventually pass on the film because of work delays with his futuristic The Postman (1997). Costner called up Harrison Ford personally and offered Harrison a once-in-a-lifetime role. Harrison Ford accepted the role and has always thanked Kevin Costner in interviews for his kind gesture. Air Force One (1997) went on to become one of the highest grossing films of all time.

(October 1997) Ranked #27 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

His wife, Cindy Silva, played Snow White for Disneyland.

(January 1997) Revealed, via blood tests, that Costner is father of child born to Bridget Rooney. Child is called Liam, born November 1996.

He is a supporter of a British soccer team Arsenal.

Personal quotes

"Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments."
- Kevin Costner

"I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life."
- Kevin Costner

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians. . . . To me, that's sexy!
- Kevin Costner

"Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get."
- Kevin Costner