Robin williams

As inferred from the interviews, her sense of humor stems from her miserable and lonely childhood. Born on July 21, 1952 in Chicago (Illinois),  Robin Williams  was the only child of an actress, who passed on his acting vocation, and a senior executive of a car company, who had to continually change his place of residence, making it difficult for your child to make new friends. “Being alone gives you a great imagination. I learned to create my own games, read a lot and developed my own defense mechanisms to combat loneliness, like a sense of humor,” Williams said. He studied acting at the renowned Juilliard School in New York, where he met  Christopher Reeve , later a popular interpreter of  Superman ., with whom he was united by a great friendship. When he finished, he spent a lot of time doing stand-up comedy at various San Francisco clubs, until he landed a major role on the series  Mork and Mindy , where he was an alien which brought him some popularity. After marrying the Italian dancer Valeria Velardi, he starred in his own show,  Robin Williams at Met , where the actor lavished himself on impersonations and hilarious gags.

Hollywood was quick to notice his humorous qualities. The first filmmaker to hire Williams for the big screen was  Robert Altman , for his disastrous adaptation of  Popeye , the popular cartoon character. Although the actor managed to turn into a pretty convincing Popeye, the film was grim. But Williams had a better chance of harnessing his innate talent for humor in  Barry  Levinson ‘s Good Morning Vietnam . There, his character was a showman, like him, who encouraged the American troops in Saigon through the airwaves. He was so successful that he was even nominated for an Oscar for best actor.

He immediately managed to remove the label of “funny” with his leading role in  The Dead Poets Club , his consecration worldwide. And if the charismatic professor John Keating left an indelible mark on the students of a rigid boarding school, his interpretation also became unforgettable for the spectators. From then on he lavished himself on drama, playing a doctor in Awakenings , a vagabond in  The Fisher King,  and a Jew trapped in a concentration camp in Illusions of a Liar . Arguably his best role was the psychiatrist in  Good Will Hunting , for which he won the Best Supporting Oscar. From time to time, he continued to take advantage of his talent for comedy, in Mrs. Doubtfire  or  Jack , quite a disappointment, unworthy of  Francis Ford Coppola . In addition,  Robin Williams  seemed to have a certain predilection for the fantasy genre, since he was involved in  Toys ,  Jumanji ,  Beyond Dreams ,  The Bicentennial Man  and two  Steven Spielberg films ,  Artificial Intelligence  and  Hook . He would occasionally lend the voice of himself to animated characters, such as the genie from  Aladdin  or Fender the android from  Robots .

Late in his career, he turned to sinister, psychopathic characters, such as the family-obsessed photographer in  Portraits of an Obsession , the murderer in  Insomnia ,  and Alan W. Hakman, the traumatized editor in  The Memory of Lost . dead . Apparently, he had always wanted to do those kinds of roles. “I’m getting dark”, he commented putting on a terrifying voice when he was asked. “I hadn’t done those kinds of roles before, because the studios used to tell me that I played good, wholesome people very well.” In any case, he always seeks to “surprise the viewer”, which is why he will continue looking for new interpretive challenges in the coming years.

His last notable jobs were President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in  The Butler , and the advertising genius star of  The Crazy Ones series . The interpreter said goodbye to the screen playing again the reproduction of another US president, Teddy Roosevelt, in Night at the Museum 3 , while also providing the voice of a digitally animated dog in the fantasy comedy  Absolutely Anything .