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Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado and many other films. He rose to prominence with his starring roles in The Untouchables and No Way Out (1987). He then starred in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld. His second directorial feature, The Postman, was released in 1997. He later starred in Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Dragonfly (2002), Rumor Has It (2005), The Guardian (2006), Mr. Brooks (2007), 3 Days to Kill (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), Draft Day (2014), and Criminal (2016). He has also played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020). On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the drama series Yellowstone for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Kevin Costner
Melvine Parker
for Melvine Parker in The Bumpy Road to Hollywood
Suggested by jakubduda
Film about former silent film star Anna Lafontaine's uncontrollable desire for a comeback. Film opens with a scene outside her house, the police arrive and find her dead body in living room in an armchair. The daughter of millionaire and director legend Cindy Parker runs away from her father because he won't let her marry a pizza delivery boy. On the train, he meets former director and screenwriter Rick Taylor, who burned out and is now a reporter. Rick kidnaps her to secure a sensational article, but then it occurs to him that he could demand that her father let him write the script for the movie. Out of desperation, Rick is hired by Anna to write a film for her with a role that will turn her into a star. Rick agrees, takes his old script for the movie he's been working on since he finished in Hollywood, and drops the kidnapping. He and Cindy become friends, takes her with him and introduces her to Anna. He gives Anna a script to read, which he says is his best work and way back. Anna calls on her old friends and recruits Thomas Holtby and Samuel Worthton for the movie Bumpy Road to Hollywood. Holby is a robust guy with inferiority complex and shyness and loves Anna. Rick and Cindy fall in love. Cindy gets a role too. They discover that Anna have no money. Film is paused. Enraged, Worthton, who had put his money into it, decided to revenge, came to Anna's house and shot her. The police arrive and Taylor calls out: cut! 7 months later, Anna wins an Oscar and they won 5 more.
