Robin Williams Research Paper

Robin Williams was born on July 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, to former model Laura and Ford Motor executive Robert. Robin Williams was an American actor and comedian. During His childhood he was very lonely as he was picked on because he was overweight and shy. He tried and tried to lose weight and fit in so he wouldn’t be picked on anymore. One day he joined his school wrestling and track team to lose weight where he then realised he could make the other children laugh as a way of gaining respect from them. When we was only sixteen, Robin's father retired early and they moved to California where he finished his education at Redwood High School. During high school, Robin had discovered how funny he actually was. After graduation in 1969,

In 1980, Hollywood finally came knocking and Williams took the title role in Robert Altman's 'Popeye'. His film debut in Popeye wasn't a good one. He found fame difficult to handle, he coped while hiding through drinking, drugs, and womanizing. In 1978, he married his first wife Valerie Valardi. During the same year he made a guest appearance on TV‘s “Happy Days” as Mork, an alien from the planet Ork, which lead to a spin off series of his own, “Mork and Mindy,” and he was nominated for a prime-time Emmy for lead actor in a comedy series runs and the show would run until 1982. In 1982, Williams started to party with John Belushi the host of “Saturday Night Live” who later died of a drug overdose. After that death and the birth of his first child led to stress, also causing him to start drugs and

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Good Will Hunting (1997). During the 1990s, Williams became a hero to many children worldwide for his roles in many family movies, including Hook (1991), FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Aladdin (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Jumanji (1995), Flubber(1997), and Bicentennial Man (1999). He continued entertaining children and families into the 21st century with his work in Robots (2005), Happy Feet (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Happy Feet 2(2011), and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014). Other more adult-oriented films for which Williams received acclaim include The World According to Garp(1982), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Awakenings (1990), The Birdcage (1996),Insomnia (2002), One Hour Photo (2002), World's Greatest Dad (2009), and