Kevin Michael Costner net worth is $150 Million. Also know about Kevin Michael Costner bio, salary, height, age weight, relationship and more …

Kevin Michael Costner Wiki Biography

Kevin Michael Costner was born on 18 January 1955, in Lynwood, California USA, from descent reaching back to the 1700s in Germany on his father’s side, and with British and Irish ancestry too. Kevin is a popular and respected actor, film and television producer, singer and musician, having been involved in the entertainment industry since the early ’80s.

So just how rich is Kevin Costner? Currently, Kevin’s net worth is estimated by sources to be a healthy  $150 million,  most of his wealth having been accumulated during his successful acting career now spanning more than 35 years.

Kevin Costner finished his secondary education in Villa Park High School, and later graduated from California State University in 1978 with a BA in marketing. However, inspired by an encounter with famous British actor Richard Burton, Costner decided to pursue his secret dream of becoming an actor himself, a career that soon enough significantly contributed to his net worth. He began his acting career by landing minor roles in movies, with his film debut in an independent film “Sizzle Beach, U.S.A” released in 1986. In 1982, Costner appeared in Ron Howard’s “Night Shift”, alongside Michael Keaton, Henry Winkler, and Shelley Long,  but it wasn’t until 1987 that Kevin Costner gained public recognition and added a fair amount of money to his net worth, by starring in Brian De Palma’s highly acclaimed crime drama movie “The Untouchables”, together with Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. The movie was nominated for several Academy Awards, with Connery winning the award for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Kevin Costner’s next successful performance came in 1990 with the movie “Dances with Wolves”, a movie he directed, produced and starred in. The movie turned out to be so successful that it was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and won seven of them, including for Best Picture, and Best Director. Costner’s profitable acting career continued with such movies as “JFK”, “The Bodyguard” in which he starred with Whitney Houston, the film directed by Clint Eastwood entitled “A Perfect World”, and “Robin Hood – Prince of Theives” among others.

In total, Kevin Costner has appeared in over 50 films, and been nominated for almost 40 Awards, having won 15 times including for Best Director, Best Film, and Best Foreign Film (in France and Germany).

However, acting is not the only source for Costner’s net worth. Costner founded a country rock band named “Kevin Costner & Modern West”, and in 2007 began a worldwide tour, and performed at NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. In 2008, Costner released a country album entitled “Untold Truths”, which peaked at #61 on the Billboard Top Country Albums, and #35 on the Top Heatseekers chart. The band released its second album “Turn It On” in 2010, and followed it with a European Tour.

In addition to acting and music careers, Kevin Costner has ventured into other businesses as well. Costner was a co-owner of an independent baseball team “Zion” in the North American League. He also began developing oil separation machines, based on a patent which he bought from the US government. The machines became financially successful after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.

In his personal life, Kevin Costner was married to Cindy Silva(1978-94) and they have three children. Kevin currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Christine Baumgartner who he married in 2004 – they have three children. Kevin Costner is an active supporter of philanthropic causes, plus e serves on an honorary board for The National World War I Museum in Kansas City.

IMDB Wikipedia “Lowe’s Motor Speedway” “Telus World Skins Game” “The Postman” (1998) National Board of Review for best Director “The Ride of Their Lives” “Turn It On” (2010) “Untold Truths” (2008) $150 million 1976 6 ft (1.85 m) A Perfect World A Perfect World (1993) Academy Award Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Awards Actor Actor; David di Donatello Awards for Best Foreign Actor and Besat Foreign Film Actors BAFTA Awards Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Businessperson California State University Cherokee Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Best Director Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for Best Director; Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Cinema of the United States Costner Dances with Wolves Dances with Wolves (1990) Directors Guild of America English American Epic films Film Film director Film producer German American Golden Globe Awards Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Hatfields & McCoys (2012) Irish American JFK JFK (1991) Kevin Costner Kevin Costner & Modern West Kevin Costner Net Worth Kevin Michael Costner Lynwood Lynwood California Michelle Beisner Model MTV Movie Awards Musician October 15 Richard Burton Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) Satellite Awards for Best Supporting Actor Saturn Awards for Best Actor Screen Actors Guild Awards Sean Connery Silverado (1985) Singer Sizzle Beach Television Producer The Bodyguard The Bodyguard (1992) The Untouchables The War (1994) U.S.A. United States of America Untold Truths Villa Park High School Whitney Houston

Kevin Michael Costner Quick Info

Kevin Michael Costner Trademarks

1. Frequently appears in sports themed films, in particular baseball
2. Frequently appears in Westerns

Kevin Michael Costner Quotes

• There’s so much about The Postman (1997) that I love. I probably made a mistake with Postman: I should’ve started it with, “Once upon a time,” because it’s a modern-day fairytale. It wraps itself up with a storybook ending with the statue. I liked it very much.
• [on funding Black or White (2014) himself] Mike Binder sent me Black or White, and it reminded me of everything that I like about screenplays. It was very similar to Field of Dreams (1989), it was very similar to Silverado (1985) – it was quality, just quality writing. To me, it’s the same movie as Dances with Wolves (1990). I think it’s a powerful movie, I think it’s very commercial. I think it smells like everything that studios want, which is money – and that’s not bad. I don’t think artistic and financial things are mutually exclusive. I couldn’t get anybody to see what I saw in it. I literally walked into my own den and looked at my wife and said, ‘I think I’m gonna pay for this movie’, and she said ‘Really?’ and then she said ‘If you think that’s what you should do, then that’s what you should do’. And I do feel that it’s a movie to be seen, and a movie to be talked about – without trying. It doesn’t preach, but it’s quite humorous and ultimately very poignant. The studios are making the kinds of movies they want to make. They understand their business, but I have to equally understand my business of what I choose to do, and this has as much value as anything that I could imagine doing. I couldn’t minimize it, and I wouldn’t allow it to be minimized. The studios didn’t fail; I would have failed if I didn’t toughen up and just figure out how to do it. I think it would’ve been a sad thing if people didn’t get to see this movie. That’s how much I actually believed in it.
• The opening weekend is a hard one for me. Especially when you take a lot of time with a movie. I don’t know how it is with other people’s movies. It’s like, you don’t know how other people make love because you’ve only made love yourself and so unless you’ve watched them, how do you know if you’re doing it right? I know how I try to make a movie; I know how I lose sleep over it; I know how I deliberate for hours over the difference between saying ‘She went over there’ or saying ‘She’s gone’. And people will ask say, “What’s the difference, Kevin?” Well, it’s a big difference to me, to find that exactly right line. And when you work hard on things like that, it’s frustrating to me that a movie can be dismissed so easily. These movies for me are like the same kind of pictures my Mom put up on the refrigerator. I’m really proud of them and if they get dismissed, and even though you’re not eight years old anymore, it hurts.
• [on playing dress-up] I’m not a guy who likes Halloween. So I’m a little at odds with what I’ve chosen to do with my life. I never liked going to a party dressed as a pirate because when you get past that initial “Ooh, you’re a pirate!”, you feel a little silly for threat of the party. Putting on the guns, letting the beard go and getting a pipe? That is fun. You look at everybody and wink and say, “Man, I have one of the great jobs in the world.”.
• [at Whitney Houston’s funeral] I urge us all, inside and outside, across the nation and around the world, to dry our tears, suspend our sorrow and perhaps our anger just long enough, just long enough to remember the sweet miracle of Whitney.
• My movies are isolated. They all sit by themselves a little bit. I don’t have three movies coming along behind each other just in case one of them doesn’t work. I haven’t tried to manipulate my career. I wouldn’t really know how to do that. That doesn’t seem very heroic to me! Meaning it feels kinda chicken. That’s kinda chickenshit.
• [on A Perfect World (1993)] I read it; I thought that the writer….the muse was working perfectly on his shoulder. I was really happy to be in that movie and play that character and say those words. I learned a lot from Clint and Clint was able to understand that I had some stuff to do, playing a very flawed character.
• [on press criticism of him in the mid-1990s] I saw what was happening. I knew why. It was like the planets had lined up for me. I had gotten a divorce and maybe people thought that that was because my head was too big or something with all the success. That simply wasn’t what it was. If I was going to go crazy, I’d have gone crazy with the first hit, the second hit, the third, the fourth. It was much more complicated than that. It wasn’t about fame. It wasn’t about that at all. And I think maybe people were disappointed because they had seen me have a life. Was I the last hope for men and women? “If they can’t make it, no-one can!” But we never projected ourselves in the press as a perfect couple. I didn’t want that mantle, but when people project it on you and see it all dissolve….You see it. I don’t know if people beg for it and then they can’t get rid of it. I don’t know what it is. I didn’t court it. I never courted the press on any level except to promote a movie. You never saw me do press outside the lines of a movie. Twice in my career – and people don’t know this – I took a year off. If you look at my filmography, I probably have fewer movies than anybody else in my category. If you did the math on movies, I think you’d be shocked that mine might be a third of what other people do.
• I had to make a big decision to become an actor, and when you decide to become an actor, there’s a huge amount of doubt about what it means to those around you. Stuff like “How’s he going to do that?” and “What makes him think he can do that?”. But I think doubt is not a bad thing to have, because it means you keep asking yourself questions. And if you’re going to ask yourself questions, you have to come out swinging harder. You push harder. And everything that’s happened to me in acting has been a fundamental of work and being associated with really good people. [2009]
• I’ve always known what a good movie is. I’ve not often known what a hit is. I think The War (1994) is a good movie, but it’s not a hit. I think A Perfect World (1993) is a good movie, but it’s not a hit. And so what should I have done? Should I have turned my back on those movies? I can’t do that, I just can’t. If I can be in a good movie, then I can feel okay about it. I can feel okay about The Upside of Anger (2005), I can feel good about Open Range (2003), I can feel good about Mr. Brooks (2007). Is it a hit? It’s not a hit, but it will make money. Am I proud of it? I am proud of it. No Way Out (1987) was a movie that was in turnaround. It was not going to be made. Bull Durham (1988) was not going to be made. We went to every studio twice. So when people want to look at my career in retrospect and go, “Hit, hit, those movies were hits…” Well those movies weren’t going to be hits unless we forced them onto the screen.
• You know, Waterworld (1995) could probably be re-released based on my travelling around the world, and could make a lot of money again, because it’s a lot of people’s favorite movie. That’s not bullshit. That’s real. It’s a movie that people talk to me about around the world. There’ll be a moment in time when people will maybe see what really happened with Waterworld, and maybe take a more thoughtful look at it and maybe see the heroism of everything. I know forensically everything about that movie, what happened. I know all of it and I’ve never seen anybody really get it right. But that’s okay. I wouldn’t write the book. But if somebody wrote a book, I would know if they got it right. It’s an amazing movie. I’m proud of this movie for a variety of reasons. I like my performance in it. I thought that Kevin Reynolds has a great vision and some of the scenes he did are scenes that are really unforgettable. It’s a flawed movie and almost every movie I’ve ever worked on is a flawed movie. I think it’s a movie that really stands, myself.
• I don’t prefer to be known as a conservative. I’m not a Republican. I basically was raised in a house that was a Republican house. My politics came out my kitchen table, listening to my parents. I thought the people that protested against the Vietnam war were unpatriotic because my brother was fighting over in Vietnam. I was only 14 years old. As I got time and distance I realized it was just a difference of opinion and their opinion wasn’t necessarily wrong. As a person evolves they begin to have their own voice and their own way of thinking. I wasn’t ahead of my time.
• I can’t say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won’t.
• You know, the Kennedys have endured such a large amount of tabloidism over the last twenty years. But my feeling is that no matter what anybody thinks about the Kennedys, in those thirteen days they were absolutely golden. And if other individuals had been in that position, I think the legacy we would have been sharing in the year 2000 – instead of all the bright lights and parties when we hit the Millennium – would be 150 million people dead. It would make the Vietnam War pale in comparison. And if other men had been in power, they would have swallowed hook, line and sinker the recommendations of the military. — Interview with David Giammarco, Cigar Aficionado Magazine, Nov/Dec. 2000.
• Everyone feels like they could have done things differently in life. But I’m happy about the things I’ve done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that’s an important way to go through life. — Interview with David Giammarco, Cigar Aficionado Magazine, Nov/Dec. 2000.
• I think you have to look at screenwriting as an art form because it’s not all that easy to do. Not all that many people can do it. So you have to go out and find the material, or develop it from scratch, and I’m one of the handful or people who actually spends his own money on developing and producing projects I like.
• I’m a hunter, I hunt but I think there should be gun laws. I think there should be a lot of gun laws. I don’t want to lose my shotgun but there’s a real good reason why I use my shotgun. It came from my grandpa. His cheek was on it. My dad’s cheek was on it and I go out and hunt with my dogs. My gun’s an heirloom to me and my son, one day, when I’m gone, is gonna know, “Your dad hunted with that.” But even though with the connection that I have to my gun, can I look at the NRA and say, “I think you’re out of line?”. I can say that.
• I don’t mind Hollywood. After all, I don’t make movies that are like avant garde or not understandable. I just like to make a mainstream movie with all the edges that existed in the writing and I don’t like to see it flattened out in order to cater to audiences. I don’t really give a shit what people think about my movie after watching it and giving it a test score, but I really care about what you think about it when you see it in its purity, because I don’t feel like I’m going to lose you. I don’t feel like my movies are going to be for everyone because they’re not, because sometimes they’re more adult and that eliminates kids.
• [on Death of a President (2006)] It’s awfully hard if you’re his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there’s a certain thing we can’t lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world. Whether we think it’s being performed right or not we can’t, like, wish… or think that’s even cute.
• The fact that I was 5 foot 2 as a sophomore didn’t help. I’m 6 foot 1 now but still relate to those feelings. I didn’t date in high school and didn’t get my growth until college. I never got over being short.
• [on the Iraq war] I don’t want to turn my back on that [Bush] family. They’ve been gracious to me. We’re supposed to evolve from frontier justice. I think that the old west mythology is a good thing to have in your spine. But it shouldn’t operate your brain. It’s nice to know that you are willing to fight, but it’s good to know how smart you are about not fighting.
• I registered as a Republican when I was twenty-one. My parents were Republicans. But as I’ve gotten older I’ve questioned my whole conservative background… I think you should be fair about how you treat people.
• [on going bald] I’m not into plugs, rugs or drugs to correct this problem and would rather just shave it off.
• [on gaining weight for The Upside of Anger (2005)] I put on 20 pounds for the film. I drank whole milk with sugar, bananas and ice cream. And chocolate and cookies.
• I’m really aware of my disappointments, what movies I didn’t like when I was done. I’m not so sure they line up with public or critical disappointments. But if I have to reduce my life to the box office, I can see what the up-and-down thing is. Popularity now is cultural achievement. If you can be popular, you actually can make a living out of being popular. It’s not my way. Other actors might have made “Bull Durham 2″,”Tin Cup 2″,”Dances 2” and “Bodyguard 2”. But I don’t think repeating yourself is very good.
• My first introduction to English football was in 1990 when I was over here making Robin Hood and I got invited to an Arsenal game. Having watched sports all my life in America, there was no comparison in terms of the emotion that was in the stadium that day. And I really never forgot it. – on being an Arsenal fan.
• [on Dances with Wolves (1990)] “This is a bonding film for all. You could put it anywhere in history–the Berlin Wall, Kuwait”.
• I’m happy about the things I’ve done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that’s an important way to go through life. — Interview with David Giammarco, Cigar Aficionado Magazine, Nov/Dec. 2000.
• Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. — Interview with David Giammarco, Cigar Aficionado Magazine, Nov/Dec 2000.

Kevin Michael Costner Important Facts

• $15,000,000
• $15,000,000
• $14,000,000 + percentage of gross
• $7,000,000
• $3,000,000
• $1,500,000
• Along with Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, James L. Brooks and Sam Mendes, he is one of only six people to win the Academy Award for Best Director for their directorial debut: Mann for Marty (1955), Robbins for West Side Story (1961) (which he co-directed with Robert Wise, Redford for Ordinary People (1980), Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Costner for Dances with Wolves (1990) and Mendes for American Beauty (1999).
• Has appeared in two films with Sean Connery: The Untouchables (1987) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). Both of Connery’s roles in those films were played on television by John Rhys-Davies.
• Sport features prominently in Kevin’s films, especially his first love, baseball: Chasing Dreams (1982), Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), For Love of the Game (1999), The Upside of Anger (2005) / Football (NFL): Draft Day (2014) / Golf: Tin Cup (1996) / Cycling: American Flyers (1985) / (Running/cross country): McFarland, USA (2015) / Tennis (secondary): Revenge (1990), etc.
• Directed three Oscar nominated performance: Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell and himself, all in Dances with Wolves (1990).
• As of 2017, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar (not counting his deleted appearance in The Big Chill (1983)): Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), JFK (1991) and Hidden Figures (2016). Dances with Wolves (1990) won in the category.
• The longest he has gone without a Razzie nomination is two years, between The Bodyguard (1992) and Wyatt Earp (1994).
• Inducted into the Irish-American Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.
• Friends with John J. Coinman. Uses John’s songs in his movies.
• Spoke at the funeral of his The Bodyguard (1992) co-star, Whitney Houston, on February 18, 2012.
• Has founded with his brother Dan, the Costner Industries Nevada Corporation (CINC) in Carson City. This company product a Liquid-Liquid Centrifugal Separator using clean-up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 11, 2003.
• He and his country rock band, Kevin Costner and Modern West played a concert at the Romania Film Festival on October 03, 2009 in the city of Arad.
• Was in consideration for the part of Lester Burnham in American Beauty (1999) but Kevin Spacey, who went on to win a Best Actor Oscar for his performance, was cast instead.
• A skilled equestrian, he did his own riding in The Postman (1997).
• His role in Bull Durham (1988) was originally written for Kurt Russell.
• He turned down the role of Adam Gibson in The 6th Day (2000) because of family commitments. The role later went to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Was considered for the role of General Munro in The Fifth Element (1997), which went to the late Brion James.
• He turned down the role of Jack Forrester in Jagged Edge (1985), which went to Jeff Bridges.
• Has twice taken roles refused by both Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson. The first was Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987), the other was Jim Garrison in JFK (1991).
• Although often compared with Gary Cooper, he has himself named James Stewart as the western star who has most influenced his work. As a child, he was particularly fond of the five westerns Stewart made for director Anthony Mann.
• Got to know Richard Burton on the return plane from his honeymoon with Cindy in Puerto Vallarta, who advised him to give everything up completely if he wanted to pursue acting (1978).
• Has English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swiss-German ancestry. Has also stated that he has Cherokee roots, but it is not clear if this ancestry has been documented.
• Singer of “Kevin Costner and Modern West”, a rock/country band which he recently founded with the encouragement of his wife Christine. In October 2007, he was on a worldwide tour with the band including sold out shows in Istanbul and Rome.
• Former fashion model.
• In both The Upside of Anger (2005) and Mr. Brooks (2007), songs by New Zealand indie band The Veils are featured in scenes in which he is on the phone with another character.
• Played golf several times with former President Ronald Reagan in the early 1990s.
• Graduated from the same college as Gilbert J. Menchaca.
• Publicly called for increased gun controls following the Virginia Tech massacre.
• His production companies are TIG Productions and Treehouse Films.
• Was attached to the role of Sgt. John McLoughlin in World Trade Center (2006), which went to Nicolas Cage.
• Costner is frequently cited as a celebrity Republican, although he no longer is. He did socialize and golf with President George Bush, and in 1992, the Bush re-election campaign leaked word that he would appear in a commercial for the President. Costner, then a registered Republican, had no intention of aiding Bush, according to a close associate. He was a Clinton supporter. “We had to tell the Bush campaign to stop saying he was going to do ads,” the associate says. Before the 1996 election, Costner switched his registration to Independent. He gave $5,000 to the Democratic Party and attended the Democratic National Convention. Still, he continues to receive invitations to GOP fundraisers, and in February 1999, the New York Times referred to him as a Republican. “He’s not a particularly political guy,” says the associate.
• Once was a bus driver for tours to stars’ Hollywood homes.
• Supported Bill Clinton in the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections.
• Was considered the role of Cleveland Heep in Lady in the Water (2006), but the studio could not contact Costner. The role was given to Paul Giamatti instead.
• Was considered for the role of Colonel James Dolittle in Pearl Harbor (2001), which he turned down. The role went to Alec Baldwin.
• From the mid-1990s, following the commercial and critical failure of his ambitious science-fiction epic Waterworld (1995), his box office appeal waned somewhat, reviving slightly with the political drama Thirteen Days (2000).
• Has two films on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are Dances with Wolves (1990) at #59 and Field of Dreams (1989) at #28.
• In April 2006, he spent $28.5 million on an oceanfront 17-acre ranch in Santa Barbara County, California. He and wife, Christine Baumgartner, are raising horses on their new ranch.
• From 2005-2006, he had owned a home in the Hollywood Hills. But in April 2006, he had sold his 10,000-square-foot Spanish Hacienda, on an acre behind gates, his five bedrooms plus staff quarters, a media room, a billiards room, a tennis court, a gym, a pool, a spa and grassy yards. Sold for $11.5 million to American Idol (2002) host Ryan Seacrest.
• He and his second wife, Christine Baumgartner, honeymooned in St. Andrews, Scotland. Their honeymoon coincided with the annual Dunhill Links Celebrity Golf Tournament, where regulars include Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Cruise and Michael Douglas.
• Goes to Omaha, Nebraska, during the summer for the College World Series if California State Fullerton (his alma mater) qualifies for the tournament.
• Has done more baseball themed films than any other actor, except for Dennis Haysbert, who played Pedro Cerrano in all three Major League movies, as well as being in Mr. Baseball (1992).
• Along with Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Richard Attenborough and Robert Redford, he is one of six people to win an Academy Award for “Best Director”, though they are mainly known as actors.
• Turned down the role of Bill in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) to direct Open Range (2003) instead.
• His favorite genre is the Western.
• His favorite movies are long epics with a great deal of stories.
• Movies he likes are Red River (1948), Ben-Hur (1959), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Spartacus (1960).
• Some of his favorite directors are Frank Capra, George Stevens, John Sturges, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.
• Some of his favorite films are How the West Was Won (1962), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Giant (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Great Escape (1963), Hombre (1967), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Magnificent Seven (1960).
• He joins Sylvester Stallone, Prince, Roberto Benigni, William Shatner and Tom Green as being the only actors to direct themselves in performances that would “win” them a Razzie Award for Worst Actor.
• Has played at the celebrity golf tournament Pebble Beach, California, every year starting from 1996.
• Is a supporter of the Arsenal Football Club (UK). In 2003, he was working in London and decided to go to a game, only to find out Arsenal were playing away from home, so he booked a private helicopter to take him to the match 160 miles away.
• Owns a 165 acre ranch outside of Aspen, Colorado.
• On his and Christine Baumgartner’s wedding day, there were 500 guests, including: Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Willis, Tim Allen, Don Johnson, Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones.
• Opened the Tatanka Interpretive site in Deadwood, South Dakota in 2003. The site features a bronze statue depicting the Lakota Sioux buffalo hunt. There is also a museum, gift shop, and living history of the Lakota Sioux tribe. Tatanka is the Lakota word for buffalo.
• Co-owns the Midnight Star casino in Deadwood, South Dakota, which displays some of his movie memorabilia.
• In his role as Crash Davis in Bull Durham (1988), he states his personal beliefs. One of those beliefs is “…Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone”. In his role as Jim Garrison in JFK (1991), he plays a lawyer determined to prove that Oswald did not act alone.
• Turned down a role in Platoon (1986) because he thought it portrayed American soldiers in Vietnam negatively and didn’t want to insult his brother, who was a Vietnam veteran.
• For his entire career, he has purposely avoided doing sequels to his films. So far, he is one of the few blockbuster stars to never come back for a sequel.
• On June 26, 2003, he announced his engagement to his girlfriend Christine Baumgartner, having been a couple since 1999.
• Before succeeding in the acting business, Kevin worked as a skipper on the ride, the Jungle Cruise, at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
• Has starred in two films about John F. Kennedy, but has not played Kennedy; the two films are JFK (1991) and Thirteen Days (2000).
• Sioux nation gave Costner a tract of land after making Dances with Wolves (1990). Costner built a golf course on that land.
• Member of the Delta Chi Fraternity, along with G.D. Spradlin and Ashton Kutcher.
• The President of the United States role in the mega-blockbuster Air Force One (1997) was written specifically for Kevin Costner. In fact, Kevin Costner helped develop the action film with Beacon Communications and writer Andrew W. Marlowe in 1996. But Kevin had to eventually pass on the film because of work delays with his futuristic The Postman (1997). Costner called up Harrison Ford personally and offered Harrison a once-in-a-lifetime role. Harrison Ford accepted the role and has always thanked Kevin Costner in interviews for his kind gesture. Air Force One (1997) went on to become one of the highest grossing films of all time.
• Harrison Ford later turned down the role of Jim Garrison in Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991). Kevin Costner decided to take the role after a meeting with the director Stone.
• Costner and Ford’s casting choices have crossed paths many times before. Harrison Ford turned down the Jack Ryan role in The Hunt for Red October (1990) as did Kevin Costner. Harrison Ford instead made Presumed Innocent (1990) and Kevin Costner made his Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves (1990). The Jack Ryan role went to then character actor Alec Baldwin.
• His character in Dragonfly (2002) was written with the intention of Harrison Ford taking the film role. Ford turned down the role to take a year off from movies.
• His frontal nude scene in For Love of the Game (1999) was reportedly deleted after being met with laughter at test screenings.
• The lead role in Air Force One (1997) was written for him but he was still heavily involved in filming The Postman (1997) and suggested the part be given to Harrison Ford).
• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#87). [1995]
• Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1986” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 38. [1986]
• He turned down the leading role in WarGames (1983), which was played by Matthew Broderick, to play Alex Marshall in The Big Chill (1983). His role was later deleted.
• Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1991]
• Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1990]
• His first wife, Cindy Costner, played “Snow White” for Disneyland.
• Children: (with ex-girlfriend Bridget Rooney) Liam Costner (born 1996); (with ex-wife Cindy Costner) Anne Clayton Costner (born April 15, 1984, Lily McCall Costner (born August 4, 1986) and Joe Tedrick Costner (born January 31, 1988); (with wife Christine Baumgartner) Cayden Wyatt Costner (born May 6, 2007), Hayes Logan Costner (born February 12, 2009) and Grace Avery Costner (born June 2, 2010).
• Ranked #27 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]
• Youngest of three sons of Bill Costner, an electrician and later utilities executive, and his wife Sharon Costner, a welfare worker.
• Father of Joe Costner, Annie Costner and Lily Costner.
• Attended and graduated from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California (1973).
• Voted most erotic male by the readers of the German magazine “Amica”. [May 1998]
• Announced players who had been selected to Major League Baseball’s All Century Team at the 1999 All Star game at Fenway Park in Boston.

Kevin Michael Costner Filmography

Kevin Michael Costner Awards