Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman
1925 -
American born Cleveland, Ohio

Height 5' 9½" (1.77 m) . Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Newman was born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a successful sporting goods store owner. He acted in grade school and high school plays and after being disharged from the navy in 1946 enrolled at Kenyon College. After graduation he spent a year at the Yale Drama School and then headed to New York, where he attended the famed New York Actors Studio. Classically handsome and with a super abundance of sex appeal, television parts came easily and, after his first Broadway appearance in "Picnic" (1953), he was offered a movie contract by Warner Brothers. His first film, The Silver Chalice (1954) was nearly his last. He considered his performance in this costume epic to be so bad that he took out a full-page ad in a trade paper apologizing for it to anyone who might have seen it. He fared much better in his next effort, Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), in which he portrayed boxer Rocky Graziano and drew raves from the critics for his briliant performance. He went on to become one of the top box office draws of the 1960s, starring in such superior films as The Hustler (1961), The Prize (1963), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He also produced and directed many quality films, including Rachel, Rachel (1968) in which he directed wife Joanne Woodward and which received an Oscar nomination for best picture. Nominated nine times for a best actor Oscar, he finally took one home for his performance as an aging pool shark in The Color of Money (1986). Though well into his 70s as the century drew to a close, Newman still commanded lead roles in films such as Message in a Bottle (1999). He lives with his wife in Westport, CT. A caring and supremely generous man, he is the founder of "Newman's Own" a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which the philanthropic movie icon has donated to charity. Renowned for his sense of humor, in 1998 he quipped that he was a little embarrassed to see his salad dressing grossing more than his movies. Spouse Joanne Woodward (29 January 1958 - present) 3 children, Jackie Witte (December 1949 - 1958) (divorced) 3 children.

Cars (2006) , Cars (2006) , Empire Falls (2005) , Our Town (2003) , Road to Perdition (2002) , Where the Money Is (2000) , Message in a Bottle (1999) , Twilight (1998) , Nobody's Fool (1994) , The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) , Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) , Blaze (1989) , Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) , The Color of Money (1986) , Harry & Son (1984) , The Verdict (1982) , Come Along with Me (1982) , Absence of Malice (1981) , Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) , When Time Ran Out... (1980) , Quintet (1979) , Slap Shot (1977) , "Great Performances: Dance in America" (1976) , Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) , The Drowning Pool (1975) , The Towering Inferno (1974) , The Sting (1973) , The MacKintosh Man (1973) , The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) , Pocket Money (1972) , Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) , WUSA (1970) , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) , Winning (1969) , The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) , Cool Hand Luke (1967) , Hombre (1967) , Torn Curtain (1966) , Harper (1966) , Lady L (1965) , The Outrage (1964) , What a Way to Go! (1964) , The Prize (1963) , A New Kind of Love (1963) , Hud (1963) , Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) , Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) , Paris Blues (1961), The Hustler (1961) , Exodus (1960) , From the Terrace (1960) , The Young Philadelphians (1959) , Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) , The Left Handed Gun (1958) , The Long, Hot Summer (1958) , "Playhouse 90"(1958) , Until They Sail (1957), The Helen Morgan Story (1957) , "The Kaiser Aluminum Hour" (1956) , The Rack (1956) , "The United States Steel Hour" (1954) , Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) , "Playwrights '56" (1955) , "Producers' Showcase" (1955) , "The Philco Television Playhouse" (1955) , "Appointment with Adventure" (1955) , The Silver Chalice (1954) , "Danger"(1954) , "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1954) , "Goodyear Television Playhouse" (1954) , "The Mask" (1954) , "The Joe Palooka Story" (1954) , "The Web" (1953) , "You Are There" (1953) , "The Aldrich Family" (1949) ,"Tales of Tomorrow" (1952)