Kevin Kline

Kevin Kline is an award-winning American film and theater actor. His awards from his various acclaimed films include an Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award and two Tony Awards.

Kline studied Drama at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City. After graduation, he formed the City Center Acting Company with fellow graduates, Patti Lapone and David Ogden Stiers. He has performed many times in the New York Shakespeare Festival and won a Tony Award for his leading role in The Pirates of Penzance. He has had a long collaboration with film director, Lawrence Kasdan, starring in the films, The Big Chill, Silverado, French Kiss, I Love You to Death, and Grand Canyon.

He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest leading ladies such as, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Sally Field in Soapdish, Glenn Close in The Big Chill, and Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver in The Ice Storm.

• "I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving."

• "I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that. I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which."

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1947: Born October 24

• 1980: The Pirates of Penzance

• 1982: Sophie's Choice

• 1983: The Big Chill

• 1988: A Fish Called Wanda

• 1990: I Love You to Death

• 1992: Consenting Adults

• 1999: A Midsummer Night's Dream

• 2004: De-Lovely

• 2006: The Pink Panther

• 2006: A Prairie Home Companion

• 2007: King Lear (Theater)

• 2007: Trade