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Who Is Kevin Costner?

by Ratan Srivastava
Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner is indeed an actor, director, singer, and composer from the United States. Two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as two Screen Actors Guild Awards have been bestowed to him.

Costner appeared in a number of movies, including “Fandango,” “American Flyers,” “Silverado,” and others. With his leading parts inside The Untouchables and No Way Out, he emerged as Hollywood’s biggest film star in 1987. (1987). He subsequently went on to star in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and A Perfect World (1993), for which he received two Academy Awards (1993).

Costner won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role as Devil Anse Hatfield inside the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012). He had played John Dutton upon that television series Yellowstone until 2018.

Costner was born in Lynwood, California, on January 18, 1955, as well as did grow up in Compton, California. He is indeed the youngest of three sons, with the middle one dying shortly after delivery. His mother, Sharon Rae, worked as a social worker, while his father, William Costner, worked as an electrician and then as a utility executive for Southern California Edison.

Costner’s father’s ancestors came to North Carolina inside the 1700s as German immigrants, and he really had English, Irish, Scottish, as well as Welsh ancestors. Costner was reared as a devout Christian. He wasn’t particularly bright in school, but he did like sports (particularly football), piano lessons, poetry, and singing in the First Baptist Choir. There at age of seven, he saw the 1963 movie How the West Was Won, which he claims “shaped” his upbringing.

He has characterised his adolescent years in different places of California as just a time wherein he “lost a lot of confidence” and had to establish new acquaintances frequently as his father’s business advanced.

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