Kevin Kline

This article is about the actor. For the ice hockey player, see Kevin Klein.

Kevin Kline
Kline in 2010
Born	Kevin Delaney Kline (1947-10-24) October 24, 1947 (age 71) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Education	Indiana University, Bloomington (BA) Juilliard School (GrDip)
Occupation	Actor, singer
Years active	1972–present
Spouse(s)	Phoebe Cates (m. 1989)
Children	Owen Joseph Kline, Greta Simone Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor and singer. He has won an Academy Award and three Tony Awards and is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.^[1]

Kline began his career on stage in 1972 with The Acting Company. He has gone on to win three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the 1978 original production of On the Twentieth Century, Best Actor in a Musical for the 1981 revival of The Pirates of Penzance, and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the 2017 revival of Present Laughter.^[2]

He made his film debut in Sophie's Choice (1982). For his role in the 1988 comedy hit A Fish Called Wanda, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2003, he starred as Falstaff in the Broadway production of Henry IV, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play.

He has been nominated for 2 Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. His other films include The Big Chill (1983), Silverado (1985), Cry Freedom (1987), Grand Canyon (1991), Dave (1993), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Ice Storm (1997), In & Out (1997), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), De-Lovely (2004), The Conspirator (2010), My Old Lady (2014), and Beauty and the Beast (2017).^[3] Since 2011, Kline has had a recurring role on the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers.

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  1 Early life
  


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  2 Career
  


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  3 Personal life
  


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  4 Filmography
  
  
  
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  5 Awards and nominations
  


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Early life

Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Margaret Agnes Kirk and Robert Joseph Kline (1909-1996).^[4][5] His father was a classical music lover and an amateur opera singer who owned and operated The Record Bar, a record store in St. Louis that opened in the early 1940s, and sold toys during the 1960s and 1970s;^[4][6] his father's family also owned Kline's Inc., a department store chain. Kline has described his mother as the "dramatic theatrical character in our family".^[7] Kline's father was Jewish, from a family that had emigrated from Germany, and had become an agnostic. Kline's mother was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, the daughter of an emigrant from County Louth. Kline was raised in his mother's Catholic faith.^[8] He has an older sister, Kate, and two younger brothers, Alexander and Christopher.^[5]

He graduated from the Saint Louis Priory School in 1965.^[9] In 1997, the school named its new auditorium as the Kevin Kline Theater in his honor. Kline performed selections from Shakespeare as a benefit at the dedication.

He attended Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was a classmate of actor Jonathan Banks. He began studying composing and conducting music, but switched to a theater and speech major for his last two years, graduating in 1970. Kline remembers: "When I switched to the Theater Department, all I did was theater...I could barely make it to class because this was my passion."^[10] While an undergraduate, he was a co-founder of the Vest Pocket Players, an off-campus theatrical troupe.^[11]

Career

Kline at the film premiere of No Strings Attached in January 2011

In 1970, Kline was awarded a scholarship to the newly formed Drama Division at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1972, he joined with fellow Juilliard graduates, including Patti LuPone and David Ogden Stiers, and formed the City Center Acting Company (now The Acting Company), under the aegis of John Houseman.^{[12][citation needed]}

The Company traveled across the U.S. performing Shakespeare's plays, other classical works, and the musical The Robber Bridegroom, founding one of the most widely praised groups in American repertory theatre. At Juilliard, he studied singing with Beverley Peck Johnson.^[13]

In 1976, Kline left The Acting Company and settled in New York City, doing a brief appearance as the character "Woody Reed" in the now-defunct soap opera Search for Tomorrow. He followed this with a return to the stage in 1977 to play Clym Yeobright opposite Donna Theodore as Eustacia Vye in The Hudson Guild Theater production of Dance on a Country Grave, Kelly Hamilton's musical version of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native.^[2] In 1978, he played the role of Bruce Granit, a matinée idol caricature, in Harold Prince's On the Twentieth Century, for which he won his first Tony Award. In 1981, Kline appeared with rock diva Linda Ronstadt and singer Rex Smith in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Central Park production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, winning another Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, for his comically dashing portrayal of the Pirate King.^[2] In 1983, he played the role in a film version of the musical, also with Ronstadt, Smith and Angela Lansbury, which had a limited theatrical release.^[14]

In the ensuing years, Kline appeared many times in New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Shakespeare plays, including starring roles in Richard III (1983),^[15]Much Ado About Nothing (1988),^[16]Henry V (1984),^[17] and two productions of Hamlet, in 1986^[18] and 1990 (which he also directed).^[19] A videotape of the 1990 production has aired on PBS.

He also appeared in a Lincoln Center production that combined the two parts of Henry IV on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 2003 as Falstaff. Kline was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award, Actor in a Play.^[20][21]

Dubbed "the American Olivier" by New York Times theater critic Frank Rich for his stage acting,^[22] Kline finally ventured into film in 1982 in Sophie's Choice. He won the coveted role of the tormented and mercurial Nathan opposite Meryl Streep. Streep won an Academy Award for her performance in the film. Kline was nominated for a 1983 Golden Globe award (New Star of the Year)^[23] and BAFTA Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer To Film.^[24]

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Kline made several films with director Lawrence Kasdan, including The Big Chill, Silverado, Grand Canyon, I Love You to Death, and French Kiss. He played Donald Woods in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom opposite Denzel Washington about the friendship between Activist Stephen Biko and editor Donald Woods.

In 1989, Kline won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the British comedy A Fish Called Wanda, in which he played a painfully inept American ex-CIA thug opposite John Cleese's genteel British barrister and Jamie Lee Curtis' femme fatale/con woman. In 2000, the American Film Institute ranked the film twenty-first on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.^[25]

Other awards have included Drama Desk Awards, Golden Globe awards, a Gotham Award, a Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year Award, and a St. Louis International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. He was inducted in the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2003.^[26] He has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.^[27] Film reviewers have praised Kline. Newsday critic Lynn Darling wrote on July 13, 1988, that Kline "has proved himself to be one of the most talented and versatile American actors of his generation."

Kline played the title role in King Lear at the Public Theater and took the lead role in a Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Jennifer Garner. That production was forced to close temporarily after only 11 performances as a result of the Broadway stagehands' strike,^[28] but subsequently reopened. Cyrano was filmed in 2008 and aired as part of PBS's Great Performances series in January 2009.

In January 2008, Kline won a Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of Jaques in Kenneth Branagh's film As You Like It, adapted from Shakespeare's play. The film premiered theatrically in 2006 in Europe. It bypassed theatres and was sent straight to HBO in the U.S. Kline's film The Conspirator premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010 and was described as an "old-fashioned historical thriller". It was well received by most critics. Kline also starred in the 2012 comedy Darling Companion alongside Diane Keaton. In 2017, Kline returned to Broadway in a revival of the play Present Laughter, for which he received his third Tony Award.

In December 2004, Kline became the 2,272nd recipient of a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame,^[29] for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.^[30]

Personal life

Kline and his wife Phoebe Cates at the Academy Awards Governor's Ball party, 1989

Kline met actress Phoebe Cates in 1983. They began dating in 1985 and married in 1989. The couple live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. They have two children, Owen (born 1991) and Greta (1994), who fronts the band Frankie Cosmos.^[31]

After his son, Owen, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, Kline became active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In November 2004, he was presented with the JDRF's Humanitarian of the Year award by Meryl Streep for his volunteer efforts on behalf of the organization.^{[citation needed]}

The Kevin Kline Awards honor theatre professionals in St. Louis in an array of categories, which include best actor and actress, set design, choreography, and new play or musical.^[32][33][34]

Filmography

Film

Title	Year	Role	Notes
Sophie's Choice	1982	Nathan Landau
The Pirates of Penzance	1983	The Pirate King
The Big Chill	1983	Harold Cooper
Silverado	1985	Paden
Violets Are Blue	1986	Henry Squires
Cry Freedom	1987	Donald Woods
A Fish Called Wanda	1988	Otto West	Won - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The January Man	1989	Nick Starkey
I Love You to Death	1990	Joey Boca
Soapdish	1991	Jeffery Anderson / Dr. Rod Randall
Grand Canyon	1991	Mack
Consenting Adults	1992	Richard Parker
Chaplin	1992	Douglas Fairbanks
Dave	1993	Dave Kovic / President William Harrison Mitchell
The Nutcracker	1993	Narrator	Voice
Princess Caraboo	1994	Frixos
French Kiss	1995	Luc Teyssier
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1996	Captain Phoebus	Voice
The Ice Storm	1997	Ben Hood
Fierce Creatures	1997	Vince McCain / Rod McCain
In & Out	1997	Howard Brackett
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1999	Nick Bottom
Wild Wild West	1999	U.S. Marshal Artemus "Artie" Gordon / President Ulysses S. Grant
The Road to El Dorado	2000	Tulio	Voice
The Anniversary Party	2001	Cal Gold
Life as a House	2001	George Monroe
Orange County	2002	Marcus Skinner	Uncredited Cameo[citation needed]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II	2002	Captain Phoebus	Voice
The Emperor's Club	2002	William Hundert
De-Lovely	2004	Cole Porter
The Pink Panther	2006	Chief Inspector Dreyfus
A Prairie Home Companion	2006	Guy Noir
As You Like It	2006	Jaques
Trade	2007	Ray Sheridan
Definitely, Maybe	2008	Hampton Roth
The Tale of Despereaux	2008	Andre	Voice
Queen to Play	2009	Docteur Kröger
The Extra Man	2010	Henry Harrison
No Strings Attached	2011	Alvin Franklin
The Conspirator	2011	Edwin Stanton
Darling Companion	2012	Dr. Joseph Winter
Last Vegas	2013	Sam Harris
The Last of Robin Hood	2013	Errol Flynn
My Old Lady	2014	Mathias Gold
Ricki and the Flash	2015	Pete
Dean	2016	Robert
Beauty and the Beast	2017	Maurice

Television

Title	Year	Role	Notes
Search for Tomorrow	1976	Woody Reed
The Time of Your Life	1976	McCarthy	TV movie
The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People	1977	Petruchio	Episode: "Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare"
The Pirates of Penzance	1980	The Pirate King	TV movie
Saturday Night Live	1988–93	Himself (host)	2 episodes
Hamlet	1990	Hamlet	TV movie
Merlin and the Dragons	1991	Narrator	TV movie
Freedom: A History of Us	2003	Various	Voice role; 7 episodes
Cyrano de Bergerac	2008	Cyrano de Bergerac	TV movie
Bob's Burgers	2011–present	Mr. Calvin Fischoeder	Voice role; 30 episodes
Maya & Marty	2016	Husband	Episode: "Will Forte, Amy Poehler and Jerry Seinfeld"

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1978	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical	On the Twentieth Century	Won
	Tony Awards	Best Featured Actor in a Musical		Won
1981		Best Actor in a Musical	The Pirates of Penzance	Won
	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Won
1982	BAFTA Awards	Best Newcomer	Sophie's Choice	Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	New Star of the Year - Actor		Nominated
1988	Academy Awards	Best Supporting Actor	A Fish Called Wanda	Won
	BAFTA Awards	Best Actor in a Leading Role		Nominated
1991	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Soapdish	Nominated
1993			Dave	Nominated
1997			In & Out	Nominated
	MTV Movie Awards	Best Kiss (shared with Tom Selleck)		Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy		Nominated
2001	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Life as a House	Nominated
2004	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actor in a Play	Henry IV	Won
	Tony Awards	Best Actor in a Play		Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	De-Lovely	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy		Nominated
2006	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie	As You Like It	Won
2008	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie	Cyrano de Bergerac	Nominated
2009	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie		Nominated
2017	Drama League Award	Distinguished Performance	Present Laughter	Nominated
	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actor in a Play		Won
	Tony Awards	Best Actor in a Play		Won
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance	Bob's Burgers	Nominated

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Awards for Kevin Kline

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Macy (2002) Al Pacino (2003) Geoffrey Rush (2004) Paul Newman (2005) Jeremy Irons (2006) Kevin Kline (2007) Paul Giamatti (2008) Kevin Bacon (2009) Al Pacino (2010) Paul Giamatti (2011) Kevin Costner (2012) Michael Douglas (2013) Mark Ruffalo (2014) Idris Elba (2015) Bryan Cranston (2016) Alexander Skarsgård (2017) v t e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play José Ferrer / Fredric March (1947) Henry Fonda / Paul Kelly / Basil Rathbone (1948) Rex Harrison (1949) Sidney Blackmer (1950) Claude Rains (1951) José Ferrer (1952) Tom Ewell (1953) David Wayne (1954) Alfred Lunt (1955) Paul Muni (1956) Fredric March (1957) Ralph Bellamy (1958) Jason Robards, Jr. (1959) Melvyn Douglas (1960) Zero Mostel (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Arthur Hill (1963) Alec Guinness (1964) Walter Matthau (1965) Hal Holbrook (1966) Paul Rogers (1967) Martin Balsam (1968) James Earl Jones (1969) Fritz Weaver (1970) Brian Bedford (1971) Cliff Gorman (1972) Alan Bates (1973) Michael Moriarty (1974) John Kani and Winston Ntshona (1975) John Wood (1976) Al Pacino (1977) Barnard Hughes (1978) Tom Conti (1979) John Rubinstein (1980) Ian McKellen (1981) Roger Rees (1982) Harvey Fierstein (1983) Jeremy Irons (1984) Derek Jacobi (1985) Judd Hirsch (1986) James Earl Jones (1987) Ron Silver (1988) Philip Bosco (1989) Robert Morse (1990) Nigel Hawthorne (1991) Judd Hirsch (1992) Ron Leibman (1993) Stephen Spinella (1994) Ralph Fiennes (1995) George Grizzard (1996) Christopher Plummer (1997) Anthony LaPaglia (1998) Brian Dennehy (1999) Stephen Dillane (2000) Richard Easton (2001) Alan Bates (2002) Brian Dennehy (2003) Jefferson Mays (2004) Bill Irwin (2005) Richard Griffiths (2006) Frank Langella (2007) Mark Rylance (2008) Geoffrey Rush (2009) Denzel Washington (2010) Mark Rylance (2011) James Corden (2012) Tracy Letts (2013) Bryan Cranston (2014) Alex Sharp (2015) Frank Langella (2016) Kevin Kline (2017) Andrew Garfield (2018) v t e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Paul Hartman (1948) Ray Bolger (1949) Ezio Pinza (1950) Robert Alda (1951) Phil Silvers (1952) Thomas Mitchell (1953) Alfred Drake (1954) Walter Slezak (1955) Ray Walston (1956) Rex Harrison (1957) Robert Preston (1958) Richard Kiley (1959) Jackie Gleason (1960) Richard Burton (1961) Robert Morse (1962) Zero Mostel (1963) Bert Lahr (1964) Zero Mostel (1965) Richard Kiley (1966) Robert Preston (1967) Robert Goulet (1968) Jerry Orbach (1969) Cleavon Little (1970) Hal Linden (1971) Phil Silvers (1972) Ben Vereen (1973) Christopher Plummer (1974) John Cullum (1975) George Rose (1976) Barry Bostwick (1977) John Cullum (1978) Len Cariou (1979) Jim Dale (1980) Kevin Kline (1981) Ben Harney (1982) Tommy Tune (1983) George Hearn (1984) No Award (1985) George Rose (1986) Robert Lindsay (1987) Michael Crawford (1988) Jason Alexander (1989) James Naughton (1990) Jonathan Pryce (1991) Gregory Hines (1992) Brent Carver (1993) Boyd Gaines (1994) Matthew Broderick (1995) Nathan Lane (1996) James Naughton (1997) Alan Cumming (1998) Martin Short (1999) Brian Stokes Mitchell (2000) Nathan Lane (2001) John Lithgow (2002) Harvey Fierstein (2003) Hugh Jackman (2004) Norbert Leo Butz (2005) John Lloyd Young (2006) David Hyde Pierce (2007) Paulo Szot (2008) David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish (2009) Douglas Hodge (2010) Norbert Leo Butz (2011) Steve Kazee (2012) Billy Porter (2013) Neil Patrick Harris (2014) Michael Cerveris (2015) Leslie Odom Jr. (2016) Ben Platt (2017) Tony Shalhoub (2018) v t e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical David Wayne (1947) Myron McCormick (1950) Russell Nype (1951) Yul Brynner (1952) Hiram Sherman (1953) Harry Belafonte (1954) Cyril Ritchard (1955) Russ Brown (1956) Sydney Chaplin (1957) David Burns (1958) Russell Nype (1959) Tom Bosley (1960) Dick Van Dyke (1961) Charles Nelson Reilly (1962) David Burns (1963) Jack Cassidy (1964) Victor Spinetti (1965) Frankie Michaels (1966) Joel Grey (1967) Hiram Sherman (1968) Ron Holgate (1969) René Auberjonois (1970) Keene Curtis (1971) Larry Blyden (1972) George S. Irving (1973) Tommy Tune (1974) Ted Ross (1975) Sammy Williams (1976) Lenny Baker (1977) Kevin Kline (1978) Henderson Forsythe (1979) Mandy Patinkin (1980) Hinton Battle (1981) Cleavant Derricks (1982) Charles Coles (1983) Hinton Battle (1984) Ron Richardson (1985) Michael Rupert (1986) Michael Maguire (1987) Bill McCutcheon (1988) Scott Wise (1989) Michael Jeter (1990) Hinton Battle (1991) Scott Waara (1992) Anthony Crivello (1993) Jarrod Emick (1994) George Hearn (1995) Wilson Jermaine Heredia (1996) Chuck Cooper (1997) Ron Rifkin (1998) Roger Bart (1999) Boyd Gaines (2000) Gary Beach (2001) Shuler Hensley (2002) Dick Latessa (2003) Michael Cerveris (2004) Dan Fogler (2005) Christian Hoff (2006) John Gallagher Jr. (2007) Boyd Gaines (2008) Gregory Jbara (2009) Levi Kreis (2010) John Larroquette (2011) Michael McGrath (2012) Gabriel Ebert (2013) James Monroe Iglehart (2014) Christian Borle (2015) Daveed Diggs (2016) Gavin Creel (2017) Ari'el Stachel (2018)

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