Actor and director Robert Redford has died at age 89.
Redford died on Tuesday, September 16, at his home in Utah, according to a statement to The New York Times from his publicist Cindi Berger. His rep confirmed that he died in his sleep but did not provide a specific cause.
Redford got his start in the ’60s with small roles on TV before movies like Barefoot in the Park with Jane Fonda made him a star. He went on to star in classic films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were, Out of Africa, All the President’s Men and Three Days of the Condor. The Sting, which was released in 1973, earned Redford with his first and only acting Oscar nomination.
In the 1980s, Redford transitioned into directing, winning an Academy Award for his directorial debut, Ordinary People.
Redford was also an activist and is known for founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute, which went on to become the Sundance Film Festival.
“I was born with a hard eye,” Redford told The Hollywood Reporter in 2014. “The way I saw things, I would see what was wrong. I could see what could be better. I developed kind of a dark view of life, looking at my own country.”
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