Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (Cleveland, 26 de janeiro de 1925 — Westport, 26 de setembro de 2008) foi um ator e diretor cinematográfico estado-unidense.Filho de um bem sucedido comerciante de artigos esportivos, Newman começou a carreira em peças do colégio e, após obter a dispensa da marinha americana em 1946, foi estudar no Kenyon College. Após a formatura, ele passou um ano na Yale Drama School indo depois para Nova Iorque, onde entrou para a renomada escola de formação de atores Actor's Studio, dirigida por Lee Strasberg.Entre alguns filmes que marcaram a carreira de Paul Newman estão: Gata em Teto de Zinco Quente (1958), O Mercador de Almas (1958), Exodus (1960), Doce Pássaro da Juventude , onde refez no cinema o mesmo papel que já havia feito na Broadway (1962), Cortina Rasgada (1966), Torre do Inferno / Inferno na Torre (1974), Ausência de Malícia (1981) e O Veredicto (1982).Fazendo menos filmes nos anos 90, e se dedicando mais à sua fábrica de molhos e condimentos, Newman's Own (com a qual ganhou mais dinheiro que no cinema, porém dedicou quase todo o lucro à caridade e à sua equipe de corridas), Paul reapareceu em grande estilo, já aos 77 anos, em Estrada para Perdição (2002), trabalhando com Tom Hanks e o futuro James Bond, Daniel Craig, e foi novamente indicado ao Oscar, desta vez como ator coadjuvante. Em 1995, ganhou o Urso de Prata no Festival de Berlim como melhor ator no filme O Indomável - Assim é Minha Vida.

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Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Newman was born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a successful sporting goods store owner. He acted in grade school and high school plays and after being disharged from the navy in 1946 enrolled at Kenyon College. After graduation he spent a year at the Yale Drama School and then headed to New York, where he attended the famed New York Actors Studio. Classically handsome and with a super abundance of sex appeal, television parts came easily and, after his first Broadway appearance in "Picnic" (1953), he was offered a movie contract by Warner Brothers. His first film, The Silver Chalice (1954) was nearly his last. He considered his performance in this costume epic to be so bad that he took out a full-page ad in a trade paper apologizing for it to anyone who might have seen it. He fared much better in his next effort, Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), in which he portrayed boxer Rocky Graziano and drew raves from the critics for his briliant performance. He went on to become one of the top box office draws of the 1960s, starring in such superior films as The Hustler (1961), The Prize (1963), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He also produced and directed many quality films, including Rachel, Rachel (1968) in which he directed wife Joanne Woodward and which received an Oscar nomination for best picture. Nominated nine times for a best actor Oscar, he finally took one home for his performance as an aging pool shark in The Color of Money (1986). Though well into his 70s as the century drew to a close, Newman still commanded lead roles in films such as Message in a Bottle (1999). He lives with his wife in Westport, Connecticut. A caring and supremely generous man, he is the founder of "Newman's Own" a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which the philanthropic movie icon has donated to charity. Renowned for his sense of humor, in 1998 he quipped that he was a little embarrassed to see his salad dressing grossing more than his movies.

Source: Internal Movie Database