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
