Good Will Hunting
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- His achievements would eventually include three Best Actor Oscar nominations and a win as supporting actor (for Good Will Hunting), along with an enduring legend as one of those rare talents who could succeed in both comedy and dramatic parts.
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Williams won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting (1997). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Fisher King (1991).
- Robin Williams got his start in comedy at a church. After leaving Juilliard, Robin Williams found himself back in his hometown of San Francisco, but he couldn’t find work as an actor.
- He formed a friendship with Koko the gorilla. In 2001, Williams visited Koko the gorilla, who passed away in June, at The Gorilla Foundation in Northern California.
- He spent some time working as a mime in Central Park. In 1974, photographer Daniel Sorine captured photos of two mimes in New York's Central Park. As it turned out, one of the mimes was Williams, who was attending Juilliard at the time.
- He tried to get Lydia from Mrs. Doubtfire back in school. As a teen, Lisa Jakub played Robin Williams’s daughter Lydia Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire. “When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film Mrs. Doubtfire for five months, and my high school was not happy,” Jakub wrote on her blog.
May 23, 2023 · Robin Williams was an actor and comedian best known for his roles in films such as Good Will Hunting —for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor— Dead Poets Society, and...
5 days ago · Robin Williams was an American comedian and actor known for his manic stand-up routines and his diverse film performances. He won an Academy Award for his role in Good Will Hunting. Among his other notable films were Good Morning, Vietnam; Dead Poets Society; Aladdin; Mrs. Doubtfire; and The Fisher King.
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Williams also proved to be an effective dramatic actor, receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), and The Fisher King (1991), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Good Will Hunting (1997).
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Aug 12, 2014 · His achievements would eventually include three Best Actor Oscar nominations and a win as supporting actor (for Good Will Hunting), along with an enduring legend as one of those rare talents who...
May 20, 2020 · When Williams died in 2014 at the age of 63, the world mourned a stand-up comic and Oscar-winning actor who could make them laugh – and think – due to roles in television and film such as Mork...
