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Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline is an American actor. In a career spanning over five decades, he has become a prominent leading man across both stage and screen. His accolades include an Academy Award and three Tony Awards, along with nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. In 2003, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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Born 24 October 1947 · Q105817
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2026· 3 entries
Yardbarker: ‘American Classic’: Kevin Kline & Laura Linney Comedy Debuts Trailer
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bleedingcool: American Classic: New Kevin Kline, Laura Linney Dramedy Previewed
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2025· 2 entries
Forbes: Kevin Kline To Headline Comedy Series ‘American Classic’
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Deadline.com: Kevin Kline Comedy ‘American Classic’ Gets MGM+ Series Order; Jon Tenney Co-Stars In Fifth Season Production
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Kevin Kline Fans ‘Didn’t Recognize’ the Actor During His Latest Appearance
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BroadwayWorld: Video: Sneak Peek Clip From Apple TV's DISCLAIMER Starring Kevin Kline
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AOL: Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline Are at Odds in New Trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer” Series
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2021· 1 entry
It was announced that Kline would star with Cate Blanchett on Alfonso Cuaron's Apple TV+ series Disclaimer
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2017· 1 entry
Kline returned to Broadway as Garry Essendine in a revival of Noël Coward's comedic play Present Laughter
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2010· 1 entry
And was described as an "old-fashioned historical thriller
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for As You Like It (2008).
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And aired as part of PBS's Great Performances series
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2006· 1 entry
In Europe and was sent straight to HBO in the United States
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame
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As Falstaff, and was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award for Actor in a Play
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2000· 1 entry
The American Film Institute ranked the film 21st on AFI's 100 Years
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1999· 3 entries
After five months, having grossed $113,804,681 domestically and $108,300,000 overseas for a worldwide total of $222,104,681 against a production budget of $170 million
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble for Wild Wild West (1999).
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Kline played opposite Will Smith in the steampunk Western film Wild Wild West
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1997· 1 entry
The school named its new auditorium the Kevin Kline Theater
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1996· 1 entry
Played the voice role of Captain Phoebus in the Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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1993· 1 entry
Kline had his first voice-acting role in The Nutcracker, and starred in Dave, a political comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and co-starring Charles Grodin, Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley
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1991· 1 entry
They have two children: Owen Joseph Kline (born 1991) and Greta Kline (born 1994), who fronts the band Frankie Cosmos.
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A Fish Called Wanda (1989).
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Kline played a painfully inept American ex-CIA thug in the British comedy A Fish Called Wanda, opposite John Cleese's genteel British barrister and Jamie Lee Curtis' femme fatale/con woman
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1988· 1 entry
That Kline "has proved himself to be one of the most talented and versatile American actors of his generation
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1987· 2 entries
“Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.”
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“Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily — but I don't think any two people see the same movie.”
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1985· 1 entry
And married on March 5, 1989, in a private New York wedding
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1983· 1 entry
Played the role in a film version of the musical, also with Ronstadt, Smith and Angela Lansbury, which had a limited theatrical release
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1981).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Appeared with Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith and Patricia Routledge in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Central Park production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, which moved to Broadway and won Kline an
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (1978).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (1978).
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Played Bruce Granit, a matinée idol caricature, in Harold Prince's On the Twentieth Century, for which he won his first Tony Award
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1977· 1 entry
To play Clym Yeobright opposite Donna Theodore as Eustacia Vye in The Hudson Guild Theater production of Dance on a Country Grave, Kelly Hamilton's musical version of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native
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1976· 1 entry
Kline left The Acting Company and settled in New York City, doing a brief appearance as Woody Reed in the now-defunct soap opera Search for Tomorrow
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1972· 2 entries
Joined fellow Juilliard graduates, including Patti LuPone and David Ogden Stiers, and formed the City Center Acting Company (now The Acting Company), under the aegis of John Houseman
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With The Acting Company and gained prominence for his numerous performances with The Public Theater and in New York Shakespeare Festival
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1970· 2 entries
Kline won a scholarship to the newly formed drama division of the Juilliard School in New York
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Studied at Indiana University Bloomington (1970).
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1965· 1 entry
Studied at Saint Louis Priory School (1965).
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-10-24.
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