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Robin Williams
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Born: Jul 21, 1951
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This dynamic, motor-mouthed performer, whose wicked, outrageous,free-associating humor leavened with deadly accurate impressions of incredible variety-made him a comic sensation in the 1970s. Since then the former street performer, Juilliard acting student, and stand-up comic has worked hard to have it both ways: retaining his unique persona while growing and thriving as an actor. And, in fact, he has succeeded, securing both critical adulation and audience loyalty in the process. Williams gained a huge TV audience playing the alien Mork in the 1978-82 sitcom "Mork and Mindy." An entrepreneurial producer put fleeting footage of Williams in his raunchy comedy-skit feature EB. Til I Need Glasses? (1977), but the performer's actual screen debut came when Robert Altman cast him as Popeye (1980). Williams took no punches for his energetic performance, however, and accepted an even greater challenge in The World According to Garp (1982), George Roy Hill's outstanding adaptation of the John Irving novel. Although Williams' character was basically benign, he was decidedly not comic. Williams' gift for dialects was then put to good use in Paul Mazursky's Moscow on the Hudson (1984), in which he had to create a convincing Russian character to go along with the accent-and did.
He has never shied away from ambitious projects. He played a difficult role beautifully in an independently produced film of Saul Bellow's novel Seize the Day (1986), and achieved a high level of success in roles...[MORE]
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Robin Williams Nude and Sexy
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