Then, he returned to California to study at the UCLA Film School and graduated from there with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama in 1981. He joined the drama club at Stuyvesant High School and later he spent two years at SUNY Plattsburgh. Tim holds American citizenship and he has a mixed ethnicity of English, French-Canadian, Norwegian, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, and distant Dutch, ancestry. He shifted to Greenwich village at a young age with his family and his father started a career as a member of the folk music group ‘The Highwaymen’. He has two sisters and is named Adele and Gabrielle and he has a brother, David. His father was a singer, actor, and former manager of ‘The Gaslight Café’ and his mother was an actress. His mother’s name is Mary Cecelia and his father’s name is Gilbert Lee Robbins. He was given the birth name Timothy Francis Robbins. He was born on October 16, 1958, in West Covina, California and he was raised in New York City. He had been awarded Oscar and SAG awards for his role in ‘Mystic River’ in 2003. He is known best for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the prison drama film ‘The Shawshank Redemption. Tim Robbins is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and musician.

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