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Academy Award® winner Kevin Kline has earned equal distinction in the
worlds of film and theater. In addition to his 1988 Oscar® for "A Fish Called Wanda," Kline
was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for "Sophie's Choice," "Dave," "In & Out,"
"Soapdish" and "De-Lovely" and for a Screen Actors Guild award for "Life as a House."
After his acclaimed debut in Alan Pakula's adaptation of William Styron's novel
"Sophie's Choice," Kline began a long-standing creative relationship with writer-director
Lawrence Kasdan. Their collaborations include the influential ensemble comedy "The Big
Chill," followed by the western "Silverado," the offbeat comedy "I Love You to Death," the
ensemble drama "Grand Canyon" and the romantic comedy "French Kiss." Kline's other
film credits include Lord Richard Attenborough's "Cry Freedom," Ang Lee's "The Ice
Storm" and Michael Hoffman's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Kline reunited with director
Hoffman in "The Emperor's Club." Additionally, Kline stared as Cole Porter in Irwin
Winkler's romantic musical drama "De-Lovely," and also teamed with Winkler in the drama
"Life as a House." Kline was recently seen in "The Pink Panther" opposite Steve Martin
and in Robert Altman's ensemble "A Prairie Home Companion," and will next be seen in
"Trade."
A Julliard graduate, Kline made his Broadway debut in Anton Chekov's "The Three
Sisters" for John Houseman's The Acting Company, of which he is a founding member.
His other Broadway credits include Hal Prince's "On the Twentieth Century," for which he
won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award, and "The Pirates of Penzance," for which he
again won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award, as well as the Obie Award for
Outstanding Achievement by an actor.
Kline won rave reviews for his Broadway performance in Shaw's "Arms and the
Man," directed by John Malkovich, and starred in Gerry Gutierrez's production of Chekov's
"Ivanov" at Lincoln Center. His productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival have
included "Richard III," "Henry V," "Measure for Measure," "Much Ado About Nothing" and
"Hamlet," for which he won the Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Theatre. He
directed and starred in a second production of "Hamlet," which received five Drama Desk
nominations. Later, he co-directed a televised version of the production for the PBS "Great
Performances" series. Kline appeared opposite Meryl Streep in Mike Nichols' critically
acclaimed production of Chekov's "The Seagull" for the Public Theater's Shakespeare in
the Park. He recently won a Drama Desk award for the Lincoln Center Theater's
production of "Henry IV." Kline recently starred opposite Meryl Streep in Tony Kushner's
adapted version of "Mother Courage," directed by George C. Wolfe for Shakespeare in the
Park.
Kevin Kline is the first American actor to receive the Sir John Gielgud Golden Quill
Award and was recently honored with the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In
2004, Kline was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
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