Robin Williams is an internationally renowned American actor, screenwriter and producer. He was called the king of comedy and the funniest man on the planet. Williams is an Academy Award winner and six-time Golden Globe winner. During his acting career, he starred in more than 100 films. For his enormous contribution to the development of the film industry, a star with his name was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Williams began his career as a stand-up comedian. In this field, he managed to achieve great success. It was said of him that he was able to make even furniture laugh.
Robin managed to play his first film role in 1978. Director Garry Marshall invited him to star in the TV series Happy Days. After a successful debut, the aspiring actor was invited to the comedy show "Mork and Mindy", which aired for 4 seasons.
Already in 1979, Morka Williams received a Golden Globe for his performance as an alien. His popularity at that time just went off scale. Robin's photographs began to appear frequently on the pages of major magazines and newspapers. He himself was a regular guest on various television shows.
The first major film role was the sailor Popeye in the movie of the same name. The picture was a great success with the audience. The actor played his second major role in the film Good Morning Vietnam. She earned him his second Golden Globe and first Oscar nomination.
In between filming, Williams continues to put out solo shows. For his solo skills in 1986, he was awarded the highest award - an invitation to host the Oscar ceremony with Jane Fonda.
Subsequent nominations for the highest award Williams received for his work in the films "Dead Poets Society" (1988) and "The Fisherman King" (1991). In 1991, he played the highly acclaimed role of Peter Pan in Captain Hook. The next successful work was the comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire". She confirmed the versatility of the actor's talent and his ability to embody any image on the screen. Oscar-winning for Williams was the role of psychologist Sean Maguire in the drama Good Will Hunting.
Despite the fact that Robin was called a comedian, many roles in his creative biography are very dramatic. Among the images he created are a robot, in love with his own mistress, a teacher, guilty of a student's suicide. Even the famous Mrs. Doubtfire isn't all that funny. After all, the hero disguised himself as a woman in order to see his children after the divorce. The turning point in the actor's career was the picture "Dead Poets Society", released in 1988. The role of the teacher of English literature finally moved Robin into the category of serious actors and brought him another nomination.
In 1995, William successfully starred in the acclaimed film Jumanji and voiced Genie in the Disney animated film Aladdin. Famous acting works were the pictures "Bicentennial Man", "Psychoanalyst". In 2002, the master of reincarnation appears in a very unusual way. He plays a maniac writer in the movie Insomnia. Williams had a chance to successfully act in fantastic films - "Final Cut", "Night at the Museum" (2004-2006). In 2005, Robin was awarded the Golden Globe Award for his outstanding contribution to the cinema.
In February 2009, he began staging his own production of Weapons of Self-Destruction, which received an Emmy nomination. The final roles were played by the actor in the film "The Big Wedding", the melodrama "The Face of Love" and the social drama "The Butler". The last of them came out in 2014.
