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Tim Robbins (born October 16, 1958Tim Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and small time musician. He is the longtime companion of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he shares strong liberal political views. At 6'5" (1.96 m), he is one of the tallest actors on film these days; James Arness of Gunsmoke fame is one of the few actors who is taller.

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Robbins was born in West Covina, California to a liberal Irish-American Roman Catholic family. He moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age while his father, Gil Robbins, pursued a career as a member of the folk music group The Highwaymen. Robbins joined Theater for a New City at age twelve, participated in the drama club at Stuyvesant High School, spent two years at Plattsburgh State University and then returned to California to attend drama school at UCLA.

Upon his graduation in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors' Gang, an experimental theater group, in Los Angeles with actor friends from his college softball team. He also took small parts in films, such as the role of frat animal "Mother" in .

He received critical acclaim for his starring role as an amoral movie executive in the 1992 film , a mockumentary about a populist right-wing senatorial candidate. Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed based on Stephen King's short story.

Since that time, Robbins has written, produced, and directed several films with strong political content, such as the critically-acclaimed capital punishment saga in 1995, based on the book by Helen Prejean, which earned him a directorial Oscar nomination, and 1999's Depression-era musical . Robbins also continues to act in mainstream Hollywood thrillers, adding shades to his usual affable characters like (2001) as a malicious computer tycoon. Robbins continues to act in and direct Actors' Gang theater productions.

Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in (2003), playing a traumatized adult victim of child molestation. In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard. His most recent acting roles include a menacing ambulance driver in director Steven Spielberg's

Robbins lives in New York City with actress Susan Sarandon (with whom he has been involved since their meeting on the set of in 1988) and their three children. He is a prominent spokesperson for anti-globalization, and has vocally opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In 2003, a 15th-anniversary celebration of at the National Baseball Hall of Fame was cancelled due to controversy over his and Sarandon's public anti-war stance. co-star, Kevin Costner, defended Robbins and Sarandon, saying, "I think Tim and Susan's courage is the type of courage that makes our democracy work... Pulling back this invite is against the whole principle about what we fight for and profess to be about" (see [1]).

Since May, 2005, Robbins has been a contributing blogger at the liberal Huffington Post.

After Robbins and Sarandon attended the Academy Awards ceremony in 2003, Robbins threatened to punch journalist, Lloyd Grove. Robbins objected to the fact that Grove, while on assignment, had interviewed Sarandon's mother, Leonora Tomalin, a conservative Republican. Tomalin went on record speculating that Sarandon and Robbins had politically "brainwashed" her grandson, Jack Henry. In his article, Grove quotes Robbins as saying "If you ever write about my family again, I will f---g find you and I will f---g hurt you." (Source: Grove, Lloyd, March 25, 2003), , page C01). It must be added that Sarandon's mother was once quoted as saying that despite her obvious political differences with her daughter, she feels "Susan is a good mother".