While Hollywood celebrates their youth and encourages them to create their own pop culture,
some of their oldies are surely the stage-setters for these newcomers.
Today, we’re bringing to you one such Hollywood legend, who is known for his acting, but actually
has many more talents.
Let’s dive right in with us to discover more about Kevin Costner!
Which of these did you not know about the famous ‘Yellowstone’ star?
Let us know in the comments!
Born in Juanuary, 1955, California, Costner is now 66 years old.
Still young at heart, he still constantly tries new things to spice up his professional
life.
He has established himself as an actor and filmmaker, yet in 2019, he played a voice-acting
role for the very first time in his career.
He is an alma mater of California State University, graduating in 1978 with a BA in marketing
and finance.
Although he wasn't always very academically inclined in school, he actually enjoyed playing
sports and getting involved with music.
We’ll see through the course of this video that both these things truly paid off.
Before his big break in Hollywood, he was married to Cindy Silva, who used to work as
Cinderella in Disneyland.
They split ways in 1994 and later Costner married the beautiful American model Christine
Baumgartner 10 years later.
Kevin Costner has 7 children from three separate relationships.
Costner was the youngest of three brothers.
To the family’s misfortune, they lost the middle brother at birth.
His mother was a welfare worker and his father was an electrician.
His father later began work as a utilities executive.
On his father’s side, they descend from German immigrants who moved to North Carolina
in the 1700s.
Costner was raised Baptist, though he also has English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsch ancestry.
Costner remembered moving a lot during his teen years for his father’s job.
Although the movement was limited to California, Costner struggled with making friends and
claimed to have lost a lot of confidence in those years.
Costner didn’t have fame handed to him on a silver platter.
He worked hard for it, night and day.
During his audition and acting classes days, Costner often worked as a truck driver, or
on fishing boats to support him and his wife Cindy Silva.
He also gave tours of the homes of Hollywood stars, and it suffices to say he worked hard
to get where he’s at.
Although his debut was in Sizzle Beach, U.S.A, due to documentation errors regarding the
film, many consider The Touch as his debut.
It was in 1987 that Costner gained some worthwhile recognition, thanks to his role in The Untouchables
as Eliot Ness.
He’s famously known for his role in Dances With Wolves, which was nominated for 12 Academy
Awards and won 7.
Two of these 7 awards were for Costner personally, as Best Picture and Best Director.
Following this, he was seen in Robin Hood, Bodyguard, and A Perfect World, Costner quickly
gained good limelight.
Costner has worked in enough movies for us to not be able to cover in a single video.
And he has played multiple roles in movie making, often as an actor, Director, Producer,
and Screenwriter.
We all love a feel-good story about how someone was inspired to turn their life around into
success.
Here’s one starring Kevin Costner and Richard Burton.
Turns out, after Costner’s marriage to Silva, they took a honeymoon to Puerto Vallarta.
On their way back, they saw Richard Burton.
Being the star that Burton is, he had purchased all the airplane seats around himself so that
he doesn’t have to deal with people, and he can read his book in peace.
What clout.
Costner wanted to approach him but Burton made it clear he did not want to be disturbed.
Costner watched him and waited patiently, approaching Burton after he finished his book,
Burton gestured to Costner to come and talk to him.
They began to talk and Costner asked Richard Burton if he would also have to deal with
the headaches if he were to join the industry.
At this point, his wife had no clue about his desire to become an actor.
Burton shrugged saying “You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes.
I think you’ll be fine”.
Costner claims that this encounter with Burton had a huge role to play in his decision and
motivation to join the industry.
He took up a job as a marketing executive which allowed him to take acting classes 5
times a week.
Apart from acting, directing, and screenwriting, Costner was also involved with music in school.
He founded a country-rock band called Kevin Costner & Modern West with his wife in 2007,
and they went on tour, too.
They have released 3 albums up until now, the last one being Tales from Yellowstone.
Songs from this album were featured on the Season 3 of the show.
In 2009, while on tour, at one of their concerts there was a strike of lightning.
It hit one person and forty more were reported injured because the stage fell.
Costner’s team decided to raise money to pay back the mother of the deceased as an
apology.
A dinner with Costner was sold at $41,000 and two guitars, one of which was signed,
raised $20,000 altogether.
In 1991, he opened the Midnight Star Casino and Restaurant.
He definitely knew to not put all his eggs into one basket.
There were legal disputes regarding the ownership of the business later, but Costner finally
managed to sell it in 2020.
Having studied marketing and finance, he also has business interests.
A good chunk of his income comes from his role as an investor in various companies.
Costner goes big.
In 1995, he developed oil separation machines based on a patent he bought from the US government.
It also seems that the actor has a particular interest in baseball.
In many movies like Chasing Dreams, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For Love of the Game, he
has played the role of a baseball player or former baseball player.
He was also part-owner of the Zion, a baseball team in the North American League.
He did try playing at university, but unfortunately, he did not make the cut.
Well, he turned out super accomplished anyway, so maybe it wasn’t too bad.
Kevin Costner used to be a republican.
He had found a friend in Ronald Reagan, and the two of them would play golf together.
However, he switched sides in 1992 and turned over onto the Democratic side.
We see many actors, directors and producers gain fame using the film industry to eventually
make politics their main gig, but that wasn’t the path for Kevin Costner.
Although he doesn’t want to run for office or make a career out of politics, he has campaigned
for Barack Obama and has encouraged youth to get involved and have a say in what happens
for their future.
He has also dated a political activist Birgit Cunningham.
Maybe that was the inspiration?
Upon googling him, you might find many articles titled ‘How did Kevin Costner get so rich?’
Estimated to have a net worth of $250 million, he has actually won two Academy Awards, two
Golden Globe Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He owns some extravagant properties in Colorado and California.
Costner has seen hardship but has built an empire with style and suave.
He is a gentleman worth his grain.
It is no surprise that the face of Kevin Costner is so well known and familiar even to those
that are not very familiar with Hollywood.
With his acting portfolio as well as his numerous other talents, he is an extremely well-known
persona.
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