| Kevin Kline  AKA Kevin Delaney Kline
Born: 24-Oct-1947
Birthplace: St. Louis, MO
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Fish Called Wanda Kline's mother was Catholic, and he has lovingly described her as "nuts" for her loud political tirades at the dinner table as he was growing up. His father was a Jewish man who owned The Record Bar in Kansas City, Missouri, but had always dreamed of singing opera. Kline studied music at Indiana University for two years, then switched to drama. He had small roles at the New York Shakespeare Festival, then studied at the Juilliard School, where he was mentored by John Houseman. After leaving Juilliard, Kline joined Houseman's Acting Company, a touring professional repertory. He had a successful career as a stage actor long before the movies beckoned, winning two Tonys, one for playing a hapless, narcissistic womanizer in On the Twentieth Century, and a second for his role as the Pirate King in a Broadway production of The Pirates of Penzance.
He received his first film role, in Sophie's Choice (1982), when director Alan J. Pakula and star Meryl Streep saw him in Pirates, and agreed he would be ideal for the film's role of Nathan. Kline was at the center of the ensemble funeral comedy The Big Chill, the ensemble western Silverado, and the ensemble comedy A Fish Called Wanda (which won him an Oscar). He was also memorable as a crooked president's everyman body double in the Capra-esque comedy Dave, as the soul-dead husband at the center of The Ice Storm, and as a bisexual Cole Porter in De-Lovely.
Father: Robert Joseph Kline (toy store owner)
Mother: Peggy (Kirk) Kline May
Sister: Kate Kline May
Brother: Chris Kline
Brother: Alex Kline
Girlfriend: Glenn Close (actress, dated 1970s)
Girlfriend: Patti LuPone (actress, dated 1972)
Girlfriend: JoBeth Williams (actress)
Wife: Phoebe Cates (actress, m. 5-Mar-1989)
High School: St. Louis Priory School, St. Louis, Mo (1965)
University: BA Drama, Indiana University Bloomington (1970)
University: Juilliard School
Al Franken for Senate
Oscar for Best Supporting Actor 1989 for A Fish Called Wanda
Tony for On the Twentieth Century
Tony for The Pirates of Penzance
St. Louis Walk of Fame
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Definitely, Maybe (24-Jan-2008)
Trade (23-Jan-2007)
A Prairie Home Companion (12-Feb-2006)
The Pink Panther (19-Jan-2006)
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (18-Sep-2004) Himself
De-Lovely (22-May-2004)
The Emperor's Club (9-Sep-2002)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (13-Feb-2002) [VOICE]
Life as a House (9-Sep-2001)
The Anniversary Party (23-May-2001)
The Road to El Dorado (31-Mar-2000) [VOICE]
Wild Wild West (30-Jun-1999)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (26-Apr-1999)
In & Out (10-Sep-1997)
The Ice Storm (12-May-1997)
Fierce Creatures (23-Jan-1997)
Looking for Richard (5-Jul-1996) Himself
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (21-Jun-1996) [VOICE]
French Kiss (5-May-1995)
Princess Caraboo (16-Sep-1994)
The Nutcracker (24-Nov-1993) Narrator [VOICE]
Dave (7-May-1993)
It's the Monty Python Story (1993) Himself
Chaplin (25-Dec-1992)
Consenting Adults (16-Oct-1992)
Grand Canyon (25-Dec-1991)
Soapdish (31-May-1991)
I Love You to Death (6-Apr-1990)
January Man (13-Jan-1989)
A Fish Called Wanda (15-Jul-1988)
Cry Freedom (5-Nov-1987)
Violets Are Blue (11-Apr-1986)
Silverado (10-Jul-1985)
The Big Chill (9-Sep-1983)
The Pirates of Penzance (Aug-1983)
Sophie's Choice (8-Dec-1982)
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