Kris Kristofferson in Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (Pop Crane) is an award-winning actor, singer and songwriter with more than 50 film roles to his credit. Early in his film acting career, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of John Norman Howard in “A Star is Born,” opposite Barbra Streisand. Kristofferson more recently earned acclaim for his performance in John Sayles’ “Lone Star.” He also worked with Sayles in the films “Silver City” and “Limbo.”
Kristofferson’s other film credits include the trilogy of “Blade” films; the family film “Where the Red Fern Grows”; Tim Burton’s “Planet of the Apes”; James Ivory’s “A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries”; Brian Helgeland’s “Payback”; Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”; Michael Ritchie’s “Semi-Tough”; Martin Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”; and Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” to name only a few. In addition, Kristofferson earned an Academy Award® nomination for his composing work on Alan Rudolph’s “Songwriter,” in which he also starred with Willie Nelson.
A Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, Kristofferson has clocked more than a million miles in his tour bus over the past 35 years. In the early 1970s, he emerged as one of the most sought-after concert performers and songwriters of the time with songs like “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” “For the Good Times,” “Loving Her Was Easy” and “Why Me,” among others. During the decades following, he has continued to tour several months of the year with his own band, and as one of the legendary Highwaymen, together with his friends Willie Nelson and the late Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. Last year, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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