Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner was born January 18, 1955, and broke through in the late eighties with The Untouchables and Bull Durham, then cemented himself with Field of Dreams in 1989. In 1990 he directed and starred in Dances With Wolves, a western epic that won him two Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director. The nineties kept him in the center frame — Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Bodyguard, JFK — though his bigger swings as director, Waterworld and The Postman, met rougher weather. He kept working steadily across two decades in everything from political dramas like Thirteen Days to s…