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Kevin Costner (born January 18, 1955Kevin Costner is an American film actor and director who has often produced his own films.

table 4 Native American descent) and Sharon Tedrick (of Irish descent). Costner spent his teenage years and pre-actor adulthood in Orange County, California, graduating from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California in 1973, and earning a B.A. in business from California State University, Fullerton in 1978, where he was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity. He became interested in acting while still in college, and began taking acting lessons five nights a week. Costner later worked briefly with a California marketing firm, after a chance encounter with actor Richard Burton, who struck up a conversation with him. Burton had advised the young man that if he wanted to pursue acting, he should give everything up completely and go after it with both hands. Costner married a Portuguese-American by the name of Cindy Silva. With his wife behind him, Costner worked on fishing boats and as a truck driver, and gave tours of stars' Hollywood homes to support the two while he made the audition rounds. He booked one of his first leading roles in the softcore sex comedy , a film which prompted the actor to swear off doing that kind of film to wait for a proper break which came years later with . He directed and starred in the film and served as one of two producers. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won seven, including two for him personally (Best Picture and Best Director). Almost all of his subsequent film efforts have been criticized for being too long and overly serious, and for squandering financial resources. The science-fiction epics (1983). He filmed several scenes which were planned as flashbacks, but they never made it to the final cut. He was the friend who committed suicide, the event around which the plot of the movie revolves. All that is seen of him are his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes. Costner was a friend of director Lawrence Kasdan, who later promised the actor a role in a future project, which became Silverado and included a breakout role for Costner.