Kevin Costner
Born: 1955-01-18 in Lynwood, California, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado and many other films. He rose to prominence with his starring roles in The Untouchables and No Way Out (1987). He then starred in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld. His second directorial feature, The Postman, was released in 1997. He later starred in Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Dragonfly (2002), Rumor Has It (2005), The Guardian (2006), Mr. Brooks (2007), 3 Days to Kill (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), Draft Day (2014), and Criminal (2016). He has also played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020). On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the drama series Yellowstone for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Filmography
2026
- The Gray House ... (Executive Producer)
2025
- Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas as Self - Host
- Kevin Costner's The West as Self - Host
- John Candy: I Like Me as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner as Self - Host
2024
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 as Hayes Ellison
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 as Hayes Ellison
- How to Rob a Bank as Robin Hood (archive footage)
2023
- 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
2022
- Yellowstone: One-Fifty as Self
- Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Zack Snyder's Justice League as Jonathan Kent (voice) (uncredited)
- Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
- The Eisen Hour as Self - Guest
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
- Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Let Him Go as George Blackledge
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- The Highwaymen as Frank Hamer
- The Art of Racing in the Rain as Enzo (voice)
2018
- Yellowstone as John Dutton
- Basketball: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
- Whitney as Self - Actor
- Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld as Himself / The Mariner (archive footage)
2017
- Molly's Game as Larry Bloom
- The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, The War for Independence, And The Making of America as Narrator (voice)
2016
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Jonathan Kent
- Hidden Figures as Al Harrison
- Criminal as Jerico Stewart
- Fastball as Narrator
- The Hurt Business as Narrator (voice)
2015
- McFarland, USA as Jim White
- Black or White as Elliot Anderson
- Billy The Kid: New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as William Harper
- 3 Days to Kill as Agent Ethan Renner
- Draft Day as Sonny Weaver Jr.
- The Man Who Saved the World as Self
- Hollywood Banker as Self
2013
- Man of Steel as Jonathan Kent
- The Frame as Jonathan Kent
- Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies as Self
- Kevin Costner : le secret d'une image parfaite as Self
2012
- Hatfields & McCoys as 'Devil' Anse Hatfield
- Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Clint Eastwood's West as Self
- Field of Dreams 2: Lockout as Iowa Farmer's Dad
2010
- The Company Men as Jack Dolan
- Petty Blue as Narrator (voice)
2009
- Skavlan as Self - Guest
- The New Daughter as John James
2008
- Swing Vote as Bud Johnson
- NASCAR: The Ride of Their Lives as Narrator (voice)
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Mr. Brooks as Earl Brooks
2006
- The Guardian as Ben Randall
- Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World as Self
- On Native Soil as Narrator (voice)
- Ever Again as Narrator (voice)
2005
- The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
- Rumor Has It... as Beau Burroughs
- The Upside of Anger as Denny Davies
- Pennis from Heaven as Self
2004
- Beyond the 'Open Range' as Self
- The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast as Self (archive footage)
- The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre as Self (archive footage)
- Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime as Self
- The Untouchables: Production Stories as Self (archive footage)
- Testament: Nuclear Thoughts as Self
2003
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Open Range as Charley Waite
- Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic as Self
2002
- Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as Self
- Dragonfly as Joe Darrow
- Bull Durham: Between the Lines as Self
2001
- Good Day Live as Self
- 3000 Miles to Graceland as Thomas J. Murphy
2000
- Thirteen Days as Kenneth O'Donnell
- When It Was a Game 3 as Passage Narrator (voice)
1999
- Where Are They Now? as Self
- Message in a Bottle as Garrett Blake
- For Love of the Game as Billy Chapel
- The Early Show as Self
- Play It to the Bone as Kevin Costner (Ringside Fan)
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- Parkinson as Self
- Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
- Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums & Song as Narrator
1997
- The View as Self
- The Postman as The Postman
- Fierce Creatures ... (Thanks)
1996
- Tin Cup as Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy
- A Century of Science Fiction as Self
1995
- Waterworld as Mariner
- 500 Nations as Himself - Host
1994
- Wyatt Earp as Wyatt Earp
- The War as Stephen Simmons
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- Rapa Nui ... (Producer)
1993
- A Perfect World as Robert 'Butch' Haynes
- Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- The Bodyguard as Frank Farmer
- Whitney Houston: This is My Life as Self
1991
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood
- JFK as Jim Garrison
- Madonna: Truth or Dare as Self
- Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie as Self
1990
- Dances with Wolves as Lieutenant Dunbar
- Revenge as Michael J. Cochran
- The Earth Day Special as Bartender
- Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
- The Gunrunner as Ted
- The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' as Himself
1989
- Field of Dreams as Ray Kinsella
- Chasing Dreams as Ed
1988
- Bull Durham as Crash Davis
1987
- The Untouchables as Eliot Ness
- No Way Out as Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
1986
- Amazing Stories as Captain
1985
- Amazing Stories as Captain
- Silverado as Jake
- American Flyers as Marcus Sommers
- Fandango as Gardner Barnes
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Shadows Run Black as Jimmy Scott
1983
- The Big Chill as Alex (corpse)
- Testament as Phil Pitkin
- Table for Five as Newlywed Husband
- Stacy's Knights as Will Bonner
1982
- Night Shift as Frat Boy #1
- Frances as Luther (uncredited)
- Human Highway ... (Manager of Operations)
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Malibu Hot Summer as John Logan
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1962
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter