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Kevin Costner Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Children, Movies, Wiki, & Net Worth

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About Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner is an American actor, director, and singer, best known for his impressive role of rugged characters with hard emotions. Born to middle-class parents, he attended many schools to complete his education but was never too inclined towards academics. He took more interest in sports and artistic activities, such as playing piano and writing poems. After graduating from the business school at ‘California State University, Fullerton,’ Costner took up a marketing job despite desiring a career in acting. After an accidental meeting with the actor Richard Burton, who encouraged him to pursue acting seriously, Costner started taking acting lessons and took up different jobs to support his family.

After showing in cameos and minor roles in some of his early films, he showed in the 1987 movie ‘The Untouchables’ which proved to be the turning point of his career. He followed it up with great performances in films, such as ‘No Way Out,’ ‘Bull Durham,’ and ‘Field of Dreams,’ all of which solidified his status as a star actor. Later on, he established himself as an exceptional director and producer with his epic Western war film ‘Dances with Wolves’ which received the ‘Academy Award for Best Picture’ and earned him the ‘Academy Award for Best Director.’

Bio/Wiki

Birth Name Kevin Michael Costner
Nick Name Kevin
Age (as in 2022) 67 years
Religion Christianity, He was raised as a Baptist.
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Birth Place Lynwood, California, United States
Date of Birth 18 January 1955 [1]wikipedia
Nationality American
Residence • Southern California, United States
• Aspen, Colorado, United States
Home Town Lynwood, California
Hobbies Sports and artistic activities

Physical  Stats

Height (Approx.) in centimeters- 186 cm
in meters- 1.86 m
in feet inches- 6’ 1”
Weight (Approx.) in kilograms- 80 kg
in pounds- 176.5 lbs

Figure Measurements

Chest Size 40 Inches
Hips Size 39 Inches
Waist Size 34 Inches

Extra Ordinary Features

Race / Ethnicity White, He is of English, German, Swiss-German, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish descent.
Hair Color Blonde, Due to advancing age, gray hair strands are visible on his head.
Eye Color Green
S*xual Orientation Straight
Dress Size Not Known
Shoe Size 9 (U.S.)

Family

Mother’s Name Sharon Rae (Welfare Worker)
Father’s Name William Costner (Electrician and Utilities Executive at Southern California Edison)
Brother • Daniel Craig Costner (Older Brother) (Businessman)
• Mark Douglas Costner (Older Brother) (Died at birth)
Sister None
Other Relatives • Walter Madison Costner (Paternal Grandfather)
• Lillie Mae/May Reno (Paternal Grandmother)
• Clyde Asbury Tedrick (Maternal Grandfather)
• Verna Margaret Manring (Maternal Grandmother)
Wife/Spouse • Cindy Costner (1978-1994)

• Christine Baumgartner (2000-Present)

Marriage Date • 11 February 1978 (with Cindy Costner)
• 25 September 2004 (with Christine Baumgartner)
Children 1. Anne Clayton (b. April 15, 1984) (Daughter)
2. Lily McCall (b. August 4, 1986) (Daughter)
3. Joe Tedrick (b. January 31, 1988) (Son)
4. Cayden Wyatt Costner (b. May 6, 2007) (Son)
5. Hayes Logan Costner (b. February 12, 2009) (Son)
6. Grace Avery Costner (b. June 2, 2010) (Daughter)

Personal Life

School Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia, California
Villa Park High School in Villa Park
College/University California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)
Educational Qualification BA degree in Marketing and Finance
Profession Actor, Director, Producer, Musician
Brands Endorsed • Valleverde shoes (2000)
• Apple Lisa computer (1983)
• Turkish Airlines (2009)
• Roots canned coffee (2001)
• Subaru Legacy (1999)
• Suntory Malt’s Beer (1988)
• Saupiquet tuna salad (2014)
• The American Club Resort (2014) (Voice-over)
• Rio Mare tuna (2014)
• Energetix (2011)
• TGV (2017)
Career Manager • Kevin Costner & Modern West (Company), Redwood City, California, United States
• Rogers & Cowan, Publicist/PR, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Rick Nicita, Agent, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, California, United States
• TIG Productions, Inc., Burbank, California, United States

Awards

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Relationship & more

Affairs/Girlfriends • Bobbie Brown – Kevin had an encounter with model Bobbie Brown in the past.
• Peggy Trentini – Kevin had a brief encounter with actress Peggy Trentini in the past.
• Christine Dennard (1983-1987) – In 1983, Kevin began an affair with Christine Dennard. Their relationship lasted for almost 4 years as they broke up in 1987.
• Halle Berry (1989) – In 1989, Kevin was rumored to have had an encounter with actress Halle Berry.
• Michelle Pfeiffer (1990) – In 1990, Kevin was rumored to have hooked up with actress Michelle Pfeiffer.
• Mira Sorvino (1993) – In 1993, Kevin had an encounter with actress Mira Sorvino.
• Holly Sampson (1994) – In 1994, Kevin hooked up with p*rn-star Holly Sampson.
• Bridget Rooney (1995-1997) – In 1995, Kevin began dating Bridget Rooney. They even had a son together named Liam Costner (b. 1996). However, the couple broke up in January 1997.
• Naomi Campbell (1995) – In 1995, Kevin had an encounter with British model Naomi Campbell.
• Courteney Cox (1995) – In 1995, Kevin briefly dated actress Courteney Cox.
• Angie Everhart (1995) – In February 1995, Kevin had an encounter with model Angie Everhart.
• Joan Lunden (1995) – In 1995, Kevin had a brief encounter with TV news presenter Joan Lunden.
• Cheryl Tiegs (1995) – In August 1995, Kevin had an encounter with model Cheryl Tiegs.
• Elle Macpherson (1996) – In 1996, Kevin had a brief relationship with the Australian model Elle Macpherson.
• Carla Bruni (1996) – In July 1996, Kevin had an encounter with Italian singer and model Carla Bruni.
• Tawny Little (1997-1998) – In November 1997, Kevin started a relationship with TV personality Tawny Little. However, their relationship did not last long and they split in January 1998.

Favorite Things

Favourite Films How the West Was Won (1962), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Giant (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Great Escape (1963), Hombre (1967), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Favourite Directors Frank Capra, George Stevens, John Sturges, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg
Favourite Plots Long epics with a lot of stories
Favourite Genre Western
Controversies None

Kevin Costner was born on January 18, 1955, in Lynwood, California, USA, to William Costner, an electrician who later served as a utility executive, and his wife, Sharon Rae Costner, a welfare worker. Kevin, the youngest son in the family, grew up with two brothers, namely Daniel Craig Costner and Mark Douglas Costner.

He received his education from ‘Buena High School’ and ‘Villa Park High School,’ but was not inclined towards academics. He took piano lessons, wrote poetry, and also sang in the ‘First Baptist Choir.’ In 1978, he obtained a B.A in marketing and finance from ‘California State University, Fullerton’ (CSUF). While in college, he also served as a member of the ‘Delta Chi fraternity.’

Costner married Cindy Silva, his college sweetheart after they graduated in 1978. They share three children together. After 16 years of marriage, Costner and Silva divorced in 1994. He then dated and had a son with Bridget Rooney. He also has dated Birgit Cunningham and Elle Macpherson. In 2004, Costner married model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner; they have three children together.

Money Factor

Kevin Costner has a net worth of $250 million.

Estimated Net Worth in 2022 $250 Million
Previous Year’s Net Worth (2021) Under Review
Annual Salary Under Review
Income Source Actor, Director, Producer, Musician

In June 2004, Costner opened an attraction called Tatanka: The Story of the Bison, on U.S. Routh 85, one mile south of Deadwood, South Dakota. He hoped that it could serve as an educational space for people to learn about America’s history of westward expansion.

He has also invested in the Midnight Star Casino in Deadwood. When he fired Francis and Carla Caneva, the managers of the casino, in July 2004, a judge ordered him to pay a percentage of $6.1 million to buy out the Canevas as his business partners. He then asked the South Dakota Supreme Court to re-examine the ruling in 2006, after an accountant he hired determined the market value of the casino to be $3.1 million.

Costner owns an extremely impressive real estate portfolio featuring gorgeous properties around the country. Here are some notable examples:

Costner owns a 160-acre property in Aspen that features three lakefront homes that can comfortably sleep 30 people. He acquired the property in three transactions. The first two transactions, one in the late 1980s and another in the early 1990s, for undisclosed amounts.

In 2017 he paid $7.3 million for the third parcel to complete the 160-acre property. He rents this property out for the low-low price of $30,000 per NIGHT.

Nestled between Malibu and Santa Barbara is a quaint beachfront town called Carpinteria. In 2006 the Costners paid $28.5 million for a 17-acre undeveloped plot of land overlooking the ocean. They own an additional 10-acre property in Carpinteria which they tried to sell in 2017 for $60 million.

They reduced the price to $49 million a year later but ultimately took the property off the market. They previously owned a 7-acre property in the same area which they sold in 2009 for $25 million.

 Movies And TV Shows

  • Costner landed a role as a suicide victim in the 1983 ensemble drama The Big Chill, with , Kevin Kline, William Hurt, , and others. But the film’s director, Lawrence Kasdan, remembered Costner and later signed him for the 1985 western Silverado. The film, which also starred Kline, Scott Glenn, and Danny Glover, proved to be a springboard to other opportunities in Hollywood.
  • In 1987, Costner’s career really took off with two hit films. He starred with Sean Young in the popular thriller No Way Out and played the legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, with Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.
  • Continuing his winning streak, Costner starred in the baseball romantic comedy Bull Durham (1988), with  and Tim Robbins.
  • With 1989’s Field of Dreams, Costner again won over audiences with his everyman appeal. He played a farmer who creates a baseball diamond on his land on the instruction of a voice he hears. The fantastical yet heartfelt film did well both critically and commercially.
  • Costner, now an established box office star, got the green light to work on his directorial debut, Dances with Wolves (1990). The movie was a labor of love with shooting stretching out over 18 months, five of which were spent on location in South Dakota.
  • Costner continued to enjoy box office success with the adventure tale Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and the romantic drama The Bodyguard (1992), with Whitney Houston. But Costner soon ran into a series of disappointments.
  • Working as its star and producer, Costner faced a tremendous amount of challenges with the post-apocalyptic film Waterworld (1995). This futuristic tale of a nearly landless Earth had problems from the start. Filming largely took place on the open ocean on specially built platforms, one of which sank, but was recovered.
  • Undaunted, Costner worked on another futuristic epic, The Postman (1997). He played the title character, a man who pretends to be a letter carrier in a post-Apocalyptic America fractured by nuclear war. His charade brings hope to an isolated community. Some critics called The Postman the worst film of the year, while others noted that it was “a misfire” and “way too long, too pretentious and too self-indulgent.”
  • After this film, Costner’s star power seemed to fade somewhat. He didn’t help his reputation by getting into a very public dispute with Universal over edits made to his next baseball film, For the Love of Game (1998). However, the actor showed that he still could give an impressive performance with Thirteen Days (2000), a true-life drama about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Remaining busy into the new millennium, Costner starred in the heist film 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) and in the 2005 romantic comedies The Upside of Anger and Rumor Has It.
  • Following the 2008 election comedy Swing Vote, he appeared in the 2010 drama The Company Men, with Chris Cooper, Ben Affleck, and Tommy Lee Jones.
  • In 2012, Costner tackled a juicy role on the small screen, starring in the History Channel miniseries Hatfields & McCoys as Devil Anse Hatfield, the leader of a famous feuding family.
  • A busy 2014 had Costner appearing in Man of Steel as Superman’s adoptive Earth father — a role he reprised for 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as well as in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, 3 Days to Kill, Draft Day and Black or White.
  • After starring as coach Jim White in the inspirational sports drama McFarland, USA (2015), he had prominent supporting roles in Hidden Figures (2016) and Molly’s Game (2017).
  • Beginning in 2018, Costner found more success on the small screen with Yellowstone. The drama has the veteran actor starring John Dutton, owner of a sprawling ranch, with a cast that includes Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, and Wes Bentley as his children.
  • In June 2019, around the time that season 2 premiered, it was announced that the series would return for a third season on Paramount Network.
  • Costner starred in Netflix’s The Highwaymen (2019) as Frank Hamer, the former Texas Ranger who spearheaded the successful hunt of the infamous crime duo of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
  • He then went in a different direction after years of leading man roles, voicing the character of Enzo the dog in The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019).

Movies List

1981 Sizzle Beach, U.S.A.
1982 Chasing Dreams
Night Shift
Frances
1983 Stacy’s Knights also titled: The Touch
Table for Five
Testament
1984 Shadows Run Black
1985 Fandango
Silverado
American Flyers
1987 The Untouchables
No Way Out
1988 Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
1989 The Gunrunner
1990 Revenge
Dances with Wolves
1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
JFK
1992 Oliver Stone: Inside Out
The Bodyguard
1993 A Perfect World
1994 A Century of Cinema
Wyatt Earp
The War
1995 Waterworld
1996 Tin Cup
1997 Sean Connery: An Intimate Portrait
The Postman
1999 Message in a Bottle
For Love of the Game
Play It to the Bone
2000 Thirteen Days
2001 3000 Miles to Graceland
2002 Dragonfly
2003 Open Range
2005 The Upside of Anger
Rumor Has It
2006 The Guardian
2007 Mr. Brooks
2008 Swing Vote
2009 The New Daughter
2010 The Company Men
2013 Man of Steel
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
3 Days to Kill
Draft Day
The Man Who Saved the World
Black or White
2015 McFarland, USA
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Criminal
Hidden Figures
2017 Molly’s Game
2019 The Highwaymen
The Art of Racing in the Rain
2020 Let Him Go

TV Shows & Serials List

1985 Amazing Stories
1990 The Earth Day Special
2012 Hatfields & McCoys
2018-present Yellowstone  [2]IMDB

Some unknown facts about

  1. He is a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity of CSUF.
  2. In May 1998, readers of the German magazine Amica voted Kevin as the “Mos Erotic Male”.
  3. In October 1997, Empire (UK) magazine ranked him as #27 on their list of “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time”.
  4. His earlier jobs include working as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
  5. In 1990 and 1991, People magazine added him in their list of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World”.
  6. In 1986 of John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 38, he was listed as one of the 12 “Promising New Actors of 1986”.
  7. Kevin built a golf course on the land given to him by Sioux nation after making Dances with Wolves (1990).
  8. In 1995, Empire magazine included him at #87 in their list of “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History”.
  9. He has starred in films about John F. Kennedy a couple of times including JFK (1991) and Thirteen Days (2000).
  10. Kevin has purposely avoided appearing in film sequels making him one of the few blockbuster stars to do so.
  11. He is a co-owner of the Midnight Star casino in Deadwood, South Dakota.
  12. In 2003, he opened the Tatanka Interpretive site in Deadwood, South Dakota.
  13. In Aspen, Colorado, his ranch is estimated to be around 165 acres.
  14. He is a fan of the English soccer club Arsenal Football Club.
  15. Kevin has participated numerous times in the celebrity golf tournament in Pebble Beach, California.
  16. He is stated to enjoy movies like Red River (1948), Ben-Hur (1959), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Spartacus (1960).
  17. Kevin is one of the few actors to be recognized for winning an Academy Award for “Best Director”.
  18. He is known for doing several baseball-themed films like Chasing Dreams (1982), Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), For Love of the Game (1999), and The Upside of Anger (2005).
  19. Two of his films Dances with Wolves (1990) at #59 and Field of Dreams (1989) at #28 are included on the American Film Institute‘s list of “100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time”.
  20. He has supported Bill Clinton in his presidential elections in 1992 and 1996.
  21. He owns production companies named TIG Productions and Treehouse Films. His paternal grandmother’s nickname inspired the name “Tig”.
  22. In the early 1990s, he used to play golf with former President Ronald Reagan.
  23. He is a skilled equestrian which is reflected in the film The Postman (1997) where he did his own riding.
  24. On August 11, 2003, he received the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  25. He along with his brother Dan founded the Costner Industries Nevada Corporation (CINC) in Carson City.
  26. In 2008, he was inducted into the Irish-American Baseball Hall of Fame.
  27. He has been a part of numerous “Best Picture” Oscar-nominated films like Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), JFK (1991), and Hidden Figures (2016).
  28. He is a supporter of the New York Knicks.
  29. In 2015, he released a book titled The Explorers Guild, which was co-written by Jon Baird.

References

References
1 wikipedia
2 IMDB

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