By Lillie Jaenchen
Longtime Hollywood star Robert Redford has died. He was 89.
“Robert Redford passed away on Sept. 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” Cindi Berger, chairman and CEO of Rogers & Cowan PMK, told PEOPLE. “He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.”
According to the New York Times, Redford died in his home outside of Provo, Utah. No cause of death was disclosed, but Berger said he died in his sleep.
Born on Aug. 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, the Academy Award-winning actor and director is best known for movies like BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, THE WAY WE WERE and THE STING.
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He rose to prominence in the late 1960s when he starred opposite Paul Newman in the Western BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID.
“I was so much the last choice” for the role of the SUNDANCE KID, Redford told CBS in 2006. “They tried everything to keep me out of the picture because I wasn’t known, compared to Paul [Newman].”
But, CBS News said, “Redford’s nonchalance about his striking good looks” helped “sell his characters — in comedies, dramas and adventures — making him one of the leading box office draws of the 1970s and ‘80s.”
He starred in 16 movies between 1969 and 1980 including DOWNHILL RACER, THE HOT ROCK, JEREMIAH JOHNSON, THE CANDIDATE, THE WAY WE WERE, THE GREAT GATSBY, THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN and BRUBAKER.
AP reported that his film roles lessened after the ‘70s as he focused on directing, producing and spearheading the independent film movement through his Sundance Institute, a nonprofit that sponsors the Sundance Film Festival, in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
“For me, the word to be underscored is ‘independence,’” Redford told the AP in 2018. “I’ve always believed in that word. That’s what led to me eventually wanting to create a category that supported independent artists who weren’t given a chance to be heard.”
He won the best director Oscar for his 1980 movie ORDINARY PEOPLE. His over six-decades long career saw him win two Academy Awards, including an honorary one in 2002, and three Golden Globe Awards, which included the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994.
THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN, what Redford called his “farewell” movie, came out in 2018.
“I just figure that I’ve had a long career that I’m very pleased with. It’s been so long, ever since I was 21,” he said at the time. “I figure now as I’m getting into my 80s, it’s maybe time to move toward retirement and spend more time with my wife and family.”
His actual last role came this past March when he made a cameo in the series DARK WINDS, PEOPLE reported.
Redford was married twice, most recently to Sibylle Szaggars in 2009. He shares four children with ex-wife Lola Van Wagenen: Scott (who died just two months after he was born), Shauna, James and Amy. James died in 2020 from bile-duct cancer in his liver.
Please keep Redford’s family in your prayers as they mourn his death.
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