As RadarOnline.com reported, Redford’s agent Cindi Berger introduced on Tuesday the legendary actor died in his sleep “at Sundance within the mountains of Utah — the place he beloved, surrounded by these he beloved.”
Berger famous the 89-year-old would “be missed tremendously” as she requested privateness for his family members right now.
Over the course of his profession, Redford made his mark on Hollywood by starring in classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child, All of the President’s Males, The Sting and Indecent Proposal, amongst numerous others.
He gained the Oscar for Greatest Director in 1980 for Bizarre Individuals and was honored with the Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement in 2017 on the Venice Movie Pageant.
Off-screen, along with founding the Utah-based movie pageant, he additionally served as a trustee of the Pure Sources Protection Council and co-founded the Redford Heart, a non-profit devoted to environmental influence filmmaking.
He was awarded the Presidential Medial of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2016 for his contribution to the movie trade and environmental activism.