"Fittingly, Redford's history started in Los Angeles. His working-class family was the only white one on their mostly Mexican block. As a kid, Redford often misbehaved in school. "I was constantly at the blackboard, either being punished for things I'd done wrong, and having to do repetitions of math up on the board, or I was drawing, telling a story," he told NPR in 2003."
"When he came back to the U.S. to enroll in art school, at the Pratt Institute in New York, it was Redford's own beauty that took up all the air in the room, says film critic Carrie Rickey. Undated photo of Robert Redford. Hulton Archive/Getty Images "They said when he walked into the cafeteria, you could drop a pin because everyone was looking at him," she says, recalling her interviews with people who knew Redford as a student."
Robert Redford died at his home in Utah at age 89. He starred in more than 80 films and earned acclaim for numerous classic roles. He founded the Sundance Institute and devoted decades to activism and nurturing independent film. He grew up in Los Angeles in a working-class family that was the only white household on a mostly Mexican block. He often misbehaved in school and described drawing and storytelling at the blackboard. He pursued art, attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship, worked on an oil rig to fund European painting studies, and enrolled at Pratt Institute in New York. He transitioned into theater through set design and achieved Broadway, film, and television success.
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