TIM ROBBINS (Dad) made his acting debut in 1972 at the Theatre for the New City in New York City. After graduating from UCLA, he made his professional debut on television’s “St. Elsewhere” the same year he co-founded The Actor’s Gang.
In the critically acclaimed 2003 film Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood, Robbins was honored with an Academy Award® as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Society Award. He has since starred in Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46 and Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds.
In 1992, Robbins received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the amoral studio chief in Robert Altman’s The Player, a performance that earned him the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. That same year, his starring performance in Bob Roberts (which he also directed) also earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.
Other notable acting performances include The Shawshank Redemption for which Robbins received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor, Robert Altman’s Short Cuts giving Robbins his second Golden Globe Award, Tony Bill’s Five Corners, the Coen Brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy, Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder, Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham and Michel Gondry’s Human Nature.
As a filmmaker, Robbins recently completed a film version of his play Embedded Live: A Film. The film, which was accepted to the 2004 Venice Film Festival, takes a speculative look at the war in Iraq and the accuracy of the media’s reporting as a result of embedding journalists. Embedded Live has been available on DVD through Netflix and Cinema Libre and aired on the Sundance Channel this past summer. Robbins also wrote, directed and produced Cradle Will Rock, which debuted to a standing ovation at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
The film, which chronicles the real-life drama behind the Orson Welles production of Mark Blitzstein’s 1930’s musical, won the National Board of Review Award for Special Achievement in Filmmaking and won Best Film and Best Director at the Barcelona Film Festival.
Robbins recently completed filming the apartheid drama Hot Stuff directed by Phillip Noyce in South Africa.
Robbins also wrote, directed and produced the highly-acclaimed film, Dead Man Walking, adapted from the book by Sister Helen Prejean. Robbins received the Best Screenplay Award from the Austin Film Festival for his script and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Director along with four awards at the Berlin Film Festival, the Humanitas award and the Christopher award. The film also earned a nomination for Best Actor for Sean Penn as well as the Academy Award® for Best Actress for Susan Sarandon.
Robbins made his directing and screenwriting debut with the award-winning political satire, Bob Roberts, a “mockumentary” about a dubious right-wing candidate’s race for the Senate. Robbins also starred in and co-wrote the songs for the film, which was nominated for a Golden Globe award and received the Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor Award at the Boston Film Festival, as well as Best Film at The Tokyo International Festival.
Robbins also executive-produced The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera, a documentary about filmmaker Sam Fuller, which won the 1996 Cable ACE Award for Best Documentary.
In 2002, Robbins performed in “The Guys,” a play about a fire captain who lost eight of his men on September 11th. Robbins performed with Swoosie Kurtz at the Flea Theater in New York and at Lincoln Center with Susan Sarandon. The play was then performed at the Actor’s Gang Theater in Los Angeles with Helen Hunt and at the Edinburgh Festival and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin with Susan Sarandon.
In 1982, Robbins co-founded the Actors’ Gang, the highly acclaimed and respected Los Angeles theater ensemble dedicated to the production of original and provocative theatre. He is currently its Artistic Director. The Actors’ Gang has received more than 100 awards including Dramalogue, L.A Weekly and Ovation awards, as well as the prestigious Margaret Hartford Award for “continued excellence.” Robbins himself was honored with the LA Weekly Award for his direction of the Gang’s debut production, a midnight performance of “Ubu Roi,” and earned a nomination for Best Director from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for the group’s production of Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Szechuan.”
The Actor’s Gang debuted his play “Embedded” at the New York Public Theater and other recent productions include ‘Mephisto,” “The Seagull,” “Exonerated, Algazam” and “Orlando.” The Actor’s Gang has also developed educational outreach programs in the arts with local schools.
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