Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss was born in October 1947 in Brooklyn (United States). The son of a lawyer and a peace activist, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of nine. Such a place to grow up and grow allowed her to graduate from the exclusive Beverly Hills High School. It was in that purely student period when he was bitten by the acting bug, and he began to participate in tiny plays at the Beverly Hills Jewish Center.

Childish curiosity or not, the truth is that he ended up going to several castings to act on television. And so much knocking on the door helped her to participate in the series In Mama’s House (1962) just when she was 15 years old. Later he would attend California State University for a year, but was called up for the Vietnam War. He applied the most intelligent of strategies to get out of the mess, and declared his objection. Ultimately, he would end up volunteering at the Los Angeles hospital.

Thus, incidentally, he could continue his career as an actor. And well that he did, after appearing in small roles in series such as Peyton Place (1966), Gidget (1969) or The Big Valley (1969). Those works did not fall on deaf ears, since in 1967 the doors would open to him. doors of that great and extensive world that is cinema. A couple of lines in El graduado and the occasional one in El valle de las muñecas were his launch bridge to other more important productions, such as the mafia thriller Dillinger (1973) and above all the X-ray of the ideals of youth. 60’s American that is done in American Graffiti(1973). Of course, Dreyfuss has never been able to complain that his beginnings were unremarkable.

But without a doubt, when the yellow highlighter was really picked up to mark his name before large audiences was when Steven Spielberg laid eyes on him. With the terror in the plot that infuses a cult film like Jaws (1975), Dreyfuss forged a close friendship with the director. And achieving that means leaving behind anonymity. For this reason, two years later, he appeared again in another Spielberg film, Encounters in the Third Kind (1977), one of those classics of fantasy and alien cinema that can never be missing from the memory of any viewer.

So much followed success could only lead to one thing: awards. And what better is there for such a situation than to win an Oscar for best lead actor, just as he did with the romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl (1977). From then until the mid-’80s is a forgettable period in his life. Without going into what caused what, or what the reasons were, Dreyfuss entered into a spiral of insufferable films –on the other hand, something logical, since maintaining the lofty level he had is the most complicated–, which combined such forgetfulness with the drug use and the occasional traffic accident.

1986 would be the year marked for his return to the Phoenix bird, after being part of the game in the comedy A crazy man loose in Hollywood . Seeing him in that more casual and cheerful tone led to cleaning up his fame. Even Spielberg then seemed to come to his aid, allowing him to act in Always (Forever) (1989). And he and all of him went back on wheels. He chained another series of titles that will be remembered more for their box office success / viewership than for their quality, such as Postcards from the Edge (1990), What about Bob? (1991) or the historical telefilm about the Dreyfus case Prisoners of Honor (1991).

He was again nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Professor Holland (1995), and he surrounded himself wonderfully in The President and Miss Wade (1995), where he shared a cast with Michael Douglas , Annette Bening or Michael J. Fox . The late 1990s were prolific for him, with films like the sober thriller Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) or the black comedy Glad to Kill You (1996).

At the turn of the new century, his efforts were focused almost equally on television and theater. She appeared in the play “Sly Fox” (2004) on Broadway, and her adventure in The Education of Max Bickford (2001) lasted one season. Also in 2004 he was going to appear in another play, “The Producers”, but due to health problems he could not play such a role. In 2009 he would appear in “Complicit”, directed by Kevin Spacey , which was performed at the Old Vic theater in London.

Returning to his film path, he was one of the faces of the catastrophic Poseidon (2006); he played Vice President Dick Cheney in the political drama W. (2008); and she appeared in the unconvincing love story My Life in Ruins (2009), as well as the far-fetched Leaves of Grass (2009), where she starred opposite Edward Norton .

In recent years he has not appeared in as many titles as before, and has decided to “peck” also in other audiovisual boundaries, such as dubbing a couple of episodes of Family Guy (2009) or even interpreting the biblical character Moses in a audiobook.

The interview he conducted in 2006 in the documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive deserves a separate chapter . Fry, who suffers from bipolar disorder, decided to have Dreyfuss in his documentary, since he also has the same disease.

He has always shown his concerns about politics, continually making clear his support for democratic values ​​and absolute respect for human rights. She has even organized campaigns to inform people about the erosion of those rights. In his personal life, he was married to screenwriter-producer Jeramie Rain , with whom he had three children. He would later remarry another woman, Janelle Lacey. And after divorcing her, he would marry for the third time, this time with Svetlana Erokhin, with whom he currently shares her life.