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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.
The prophecy to King Lai determines that he will be killed by his own son, who will then marry his wife, his mother. Therefore, when his son is born, he orders him to pierce his feet and throw him in the forest on Mount Kitharión. But the slave who is supposed to do this will not find the strength for him and will take the child to the shepherds of the Corinthian king. King Polybos does not have children of his own, so he accepts him. Names him Oedipus and raises him without telling him anything about his origins. Oedipus decides to go to the Delphi to find out the truth about parents. On the way during the fight, he accidentally kills his father Laia, without, of course, knowing that it is his father. Then, near Thebes, he solved the mystery of the Sphinx, freeing the city from this monster. As a reward for this act, he receives the royal throne and the hand of the recently widowed queen Jocasta. After a few years, Thebes are hit by a huge plague. Oedipus finds out that the plague will last as long as King Lai's assassin lives, so he starts looking for the killer. The seer Teirésiás tells him the truth, Oedipus expels him from the palace. He thinks Creon prepared everything because he wants a throne. Then he finds out the truth. His mother and wife Iokasté hang themselves and Oedipus becomes blind. He reconciles with Creont and leaves Thebes after a while.
