Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, producer, film director, and musician. He has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado, and many other films.
Costner was born on January 18, 1955, in Lynwood, California, and grew up in Compton, California. He is the youngest of three boys, the second of whom died at birth. His mother, Sharon Rae, was a welfare worker, and his father, William Costner, was an electrician and, later, a utility executive at Southern California Edison.
Costner’s father’s heritage originates with German immigrants to North Carolina in the 1700s, and Costner also has English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. Costner was raised Baptist. He was not academically inclined in school, but did enjoy sports, especially football, took piano lessons, wrote poetry, and sang in the First Baptist Choir. He has stated that a viewing of the 1963 film How the West Was Won at the age of seven had “formed” his childhood.
How many children does Kevin Costner have?
Costner has been married twice and has seven children from three relationships. In 1975 while in college, Costner started dating fellow student Cindy Silva, and they married three years later. During their marriage, they had three children two daughters named Annie and Lily, and a son named Joe. The couple divorced in 1994 after 16 years of marriage. He has a son, Liam Timothy, with Bridget Rooney, with whom he had a brief relationship following his divorce, and then dated political activist Birgit Cunningham. In 1996, he lived with supermodel Elle Macpherson.
On September 25, 2004, Costner married his girlfriend of four years, model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner, at his ranch in Aspen, Colorado. They have three children: sons Cayden and Hayes, and daughter Grace.
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