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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
Rose, Grandma of Nicole is having cancer and doctors gives her a year. Rose teached her about life, they were same told her Mini Me and she is her younger version. Rose wrote a letter before she die as last goodbye and advice. shorter: Dear Me This is a letter to the girl I used to be, There are some things you should know, In your age my life started, girl in tennessee, loved music, spent time with family, but then in summer, I worked as car repairwoman, it wasn't my dream. I tried to write and sing music. In 21 I moved to New Orleans in '62. I studied university, worked as singer in beautiful club. I worked as singer with one black guitarist, B.B. King. He became famous and left. Then he came, Blond, blue eyes, hat, harley, met boss, then came to me and told: I'm Jack and I will play on this piano every day and night for you. We did show every day and fell in love. On free time we did trips on harley, listen elvis, watched sport and I painted. My first Painting was named Love in Levander. After few years he was called to Vietnam as pilot with brother Kirk but once kirk died. Jack find love in Europe. I worked in NY. I sold painting, moved back on ranch. Then Jack became wrestler. In 1972 he visit us and told me he never forget and searched me, once he saw my painting and bought it, he moved to ranch, worked there. We fell in love again. married, had family. Moved to Miami. He was preacher and I LP seller and housewife, I loved it. In '97 U born, then it is just history.
