Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. He rose to fame for playing the alien Mork in the sitcom Mork & Mindy. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in August 2014 at the age of 63.
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Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. He rose to fame for playing the alien Mork in the sitcom Mork & Mindy. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting. In August 2014, at age 63, Williams committed suicide by hanging at his home in Paradise Cay, California. His widow, Susan Schneider Williams, attributed his suicide to his struggle with Lewy body disease. Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951. His mother was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi, whose great-grandfather was Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin. He had English, French, German, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. He described himself as a quiet child who did not overcome his shyness until he became involved with his high school drama department. Williams studied theatre for three years at the College of Marin, a community college in Kentfield, California, and attended the Juilliard School in New York City. He also starred in box office successes such as Hook, Aladdin, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, The Birdcage, and the Night at the Museum trilogy. He also received two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in August 2014 at the age of 63.
He is survived by his wife, Susan, his two sons, and a daughter, Allie, who lives in Los Angeles, and his mother, Laurie McLurin Williams, who died of cancer in 2007. He leaves behind a wife and two children, all of whom are active members of their church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and two step-sons, both of whom also play roles in films and TV shows. Williams also had a brother, Robert, who was a senior executive in Ford’s Lincoln-Mercury Division. Williams had two elder half-brothers: paternalHalf-brother Robert and maternal half-Brother McLaur in. Williams attended Redwood High School in nearby Larkspur. At the time of his graduation in 1969, he was voted “Most Likely Not to Succeed’ and “Funniest’ by his classmates. After high school graduation, Williams enrolled at Claremont Men’s College in Claremont, California,. He dropped out to pursue acting. In 1973, Williams attained a full scholarship to the Juiliard School. He and Christopher Reeve were the only two accepted into the freshman class of the John Houseman Advanced Program at the school. William Hurt, William Mandy Patinkin, Frank Seales and Frank Sealy were roommates at Juillardis. Williams’ first impression of Williams was that he was “like an untied balloon that had been inflated and released immediately.”
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