Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Robert Redford has died at the age of 89.
The Hollywood star and campaigner, most famous for roles in films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, died early on Tuesday at his home in Utah.
The New York Times was the first to report the news, announced in a statement by Cindi Berger, chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK.
She said: ‘Robert Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved.
‘He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.’
No specific cause of death was given.
Redford was a force in the film industry for decades, as both a performer and director.
He also founded the influential Sundance Film Festival via his Sundance Institute in 1978, and won one competitive Academy Award out of four nominations as a director for Ordinary People.
He received a nomination too for his performance in The Sting as well as nods for acting and directing Quiz Show before being awarded with an honorary Oscar in 2002.
Earlier this year he made a return to acting after a six-year hiatus with an onscreen cameo in psychological thriller TV show Dark Winds, which he also executive produced.
Prior to that he had last been seen as the unscrupulous Alexander Pierce, his Marvel Cinematic Universe role, in Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
Born in August 1936 in California, he attended the University of Colorado before he was kicked out for drinking, later travelling across Europe and studying painting before taking classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
