Hollywood actor & director Robert Redford dies aged 89

Hollywood actor, director and activist Robert Redford has died at the age of 89 on Sep. 16.

According to NBC News, his publicist Cindi Berger said that he passed away at home in Utah, "surrounded by those he loved".

She added that his family has requested for privacy.

Known in the 60s and 70s for charisma

Born on Aug. 18, 1936 in California, Redford rose to prominence as a leading man in the late 1960s and 1970s

As an actor, he was famed for his windswept hairstyle and charisma.

He was best known for movies such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting.

Achievements

He later established himself as a director, clinching the Academy Award for best director with his very first film Ordinary People in 1980.

Redford founded the Sundance Film Festival, a film festival to encourage independent cinema.

Redford also won two Oscars, including an honorary award in 2002, and three Golden Globes, among them the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award in 1994.

Apart from his Hollywood career, he also became a political activist and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from then United States president Barack Obama in 2016.

He is survived by his wife, Sibylle Szaggars, and two daughters from his first marriage.

Top photos via Robert Redford Today/Facebook