
Kevin Costner
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas as Self - Host
2025Kevin Costner's The West as Self - Host
2025Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner as Self - Host
2024Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 as Hayes Ellison
2024Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 as Hayes Ellison
2024How to Rob a Bank as Robin Hood (archive footage)
2023100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
2022Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' as Self (archive footage)
2022Yellowstone: One-Fifty as Self
2021Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy as Self
2021Zack Snyder's Justice League as Jonathan Kent (voice) (uncredited)
2021Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All as Self (archive footage)
2021The Eisen Hour as Self - Guest
2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020Let Him Go as George Blackledge
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019The Art of Racing in the Rain as Enzo (voice)
2019The Highwaymen as Frank Hamer
2018Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld as Himself / The Mariner (archive footage)
2018Basketball: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
2018Whitney as Self - Actor
2018Yellowstone as John Dutton
2017The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, The War for Independence, And The Making of America as Narrator (voice)
2017Molly's Game as Larry Bloom
2016Hidden Figures as Al Harrison
2016The Hurt Business as Narrator (voice)
2016Criminal as Jerico Stewart
2016Fastball as Narrator
2016Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Jonathan Kent
2015Billy The Kid: New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
2015McFarland, USA as Jim White
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Hollywood Banker as Self
2014Black or White as Elliot Anderson
2014The Man Who Saved the World as Self
2014Draft Day as Sonny Weaver Jr.
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
20143 Days to Kill as Agent Ethan Renner
2014Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as William Harper
2013Man of Steel as Jonathan Kent
2013Kevin Costner : le secret d'une image parfaite as Self
2013Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013The Frame as Jonathan Kent
2013Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies as Self
2012Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012Hatfields & McCoys as 'Devil' Anse Hatfield
2011Field of Dreams 2: Lockout as Iowa Farmer's Dad
2011Clint Eastwood's West as Self
2010The Company Men as Jack Dolan
2010Petty Blue as Narrator (voice)
2009The New Daughter as John James
2009Skavlan as Self - Guest
2008NASCAR: The Ride of Their Lives as Narrator (voice)
2008Swing Vote as Bud Johnson
2007Mr. Brooks as Earl Brooks
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Ever Again as Narrator (voice)
2006The Guardian as Ben Randall
2006On Native Soil as Narrator (voice)
2006Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World as Self
2005Rumor Has It... as Beau Burroughs
2005The Reichen Show as Self - Guest
2005Pennis from Heaven as Self
2005The Upside of Anger as Denny Davies
2004The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast as Self (archive footage)
2004The Untouchables: Production Stories as Self (archive footage)
2004The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre as Self (archive footage)
2004Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime as Self
2004Beyond the 'Open Range' as Self
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Open Range as Charley Waite
2003Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic as Self
2003Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway as Self
2002Bull Durham: Between the Lines as Self
2002Dragonfly as Joe Darrow
2001Good Day Live as Self
20013000 Miles to Graceland as Thomas J. Murphy
2000Thirteen Days as Kenneth O'Donnell
2000When It Was a Game 3 as Passage Narrator (voice)
1999Play It to the Bone as Kevin Costner (Ringside Fan)
1999The Early Show as Self
1999For Love of the Game as Billy Chapel
1999Where Are They Now? as Self
1999Message in a Bottle as Garrett Blake
1998Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
1998Vivement dimanche as Self
1998The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
1998Parkinson as Self
1998Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums & Song as Narrator
1997The Postman as The Postman
1997The View as Self
1996Tin Cup as Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy
1996A Century of Science Fiction as Self
1995Waterworld as Mariner
1995500 Nations as Himself - Host
1994The War as Stephen Simmons
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1994Wyatt Earp as Wyatt Earp
1993A Perfect World as Robert 'Butch' Haynes
1993Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
1992The Bodyguard as Frank Farmer
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992Whitney Houston: This is My Life as Himself
1991JFK as Jim Garrison
1991Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood
1991Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie as Self
1991Madonna: Truth or Dare as Self
1990The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' as Himself
1990Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
1990The Gunrunner as Ted
1990The Earth Day Special as Bartender
1990Dances with Wolves as Lieutenant Dunbar
1990Revenge as Michael J. Cochran
1989Chasing Dreams as Ed
1989Field of Dreams as Ray Kinsella
1988Bull Durham as Crash Davis
1987No Way Out as Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
1987The Untouchables as Eliot Ness
1986Amazing Stories as Captain
1985Amazing Stories as Captain
1985American Flyers as Marcus Sommers
1985Silverado as Jake
1985Fandango as Gardner Barnes
1984Goldene Kamera as Self
1984Shadows Run Black as Jimmy Scott
1983Testament as Phil Pitkin
1983The Big Chill as Alex (corpse)
1983Stacy's Knights as Will Bonner
1983Table for Five as Newlywed Husband
1982Frances as Luther (uncredited)
1982Night Shift as Frat Boy #1
1981Wetten, dass..? as Self
1981Malibu Hot Summer as John Logan
1971Great Performances as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1953The Oscars as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
—Headhunters as Lazer
—Honeymoon with Harry
—Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 4 as Hayes Ellison
—Untitled Kevin Costner/Ariel Vromen Project
—Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 3 as Hayes Ellison
—Custer State Park: Spirit of Tatanka as Narrator









