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Tim Robbins is one of Hollywood's most recognizable actors, and the star of such critically acclaimed films as The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, and Bull Durham. He directed and starred in the political satire Bob Roberts, which tells the story of a corrupt right-wing folk-singer. He directed Dead Man Walking, an anti-death penalty film starring Sean Penn and Robbins' longtime companion and fellow radical, Susan Sarandon. A steadfast supporter of the Green Party, Ralph Nader, and socialism, Robbins has called Republicans "evil incarnate."
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Tim Robbins is one of those movie stars who suffers from the delusion that being rich and famous means he must ... be smart. A talented actor, Mr. Robbins occasionally writes plays in which he sets forth his views on politics, which are more or less the same as those found in the pages of The Nation. His latest such effort, "Embedded," opened Sunday at the Public Theatre, a New York City institution whose soon-to-be-former boss, George C. Wolfe, likes nothing better than to produce aggressively political plays, so long as the views expressed therein are well to the left of center.
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Tim Robbins praises Good Night, And Good Luck Tim has strong views on films that can educate and inform - or make a statement about society. A recent example that he rates highly is Good Night And Good Luck - the movie George Clooney directed about American broadcaster Ed Murrow's battle against right-wing Senator Joe McCarthy. Tim said: "Films such as Good Night And Good Luck that say something are ... fantastic. "I love being in a society where I can see Zathura and Good Night And Good Luck. (Sunday Mail)
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Best known for his acting, Tim Robbins has a number of roles—actor, activist, professor, father, writer, and reader. Here he takes a break to read a history book, one of his favorite genres.
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Tim Robbins won an Oscar as best supporting actor for his role in the 2003 Clint Eastwood drama Mystic River. Robbins grew up in Greenwich Village in New York, where he got involved with the theater at the age of 12. After high school he moved to Los Angeles and studied drama and acting, co-founding a theater group called The Actors' Gang. He began working in television and movies in the early '80s and had roles in The Sure Thing (1985, starring John Cusack) and Top Gun (1986, starring Tom Cruise) before making it big as the goofy pitcher Nuke LaLoosh in the jovial baseball flick Bull Durham (1988). Dramatic roles in Jacob's Ladder (1990) and The Player (1992) showed his skill as an actor, and his mock-documentary Bob Roberts (1992) showed he was no slouch as a writer and director. He has made two other films as writer/director, Dead Man Walking (1995, starring Sean Penn) and Cradle Will Rock (1999), and several films in lead and supporting roles, including The Shawshank Redemption (1994, with Morgan Freeman), Arlington Road (1999), High Fidelity (2000) and The Truth About Charlie (2002).
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Seems like a perfect target for the Philaelphia Film Office: Reuters is reporting today that the actor-writer Tim Robbins has gotten a contract to direct a pilot for a new TV drama about a family that runs a pharmaceutical company. He calls it "Possible Side Effects." Hey, imagine the Philadelphia backdrops.
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