Richard Dreyfuss

Biography

Born 10/29/1947

At one time, the youngest actor ever to win the coveted Best Actor Oscar, Richard Dreyfuss – at age 29 – was propelled to stardom with his complex performance in "The Goodbye Girl" (1977). Thanks to his uncanny ability to make annoyingly vain, pompous, whiny or supercilious characters seem both...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 1979, received BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor
In 1978, received Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
In 1978, received Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy

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Highlights

In 2009, Cast in Joe Sutton’s "Complicit" at London’s Old Vic theater; directed by Kevin Spacey
In 2008, Portrayed U.S Vice President Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone's biopic "W."
In 2006, Starred in director Wolfgang Petersen's remake of "The Poseidon Adventure"

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Family & Companions

Jeramie Rain: wife (Met at a party c. 1983; married from 1983-1995; mother of his three children; suffered a flare up of systemic lupus erythematosus after birth of their first child Emily; originally diagnosed at age 29 )
Janelle Lacey: wife (announced engagement in May 1998; married on May 30, 1999)
Laura Cayouette: together from c. 1993 to 1996; born c. 1964; daughter of NSA deputy director William Crowell

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