The legendary Oscar-winning Hollywood star Robert Redford died in his sleep on Tuesday morning. He was 89 years-old.
Redford Passes Away
“Robert Redford passed away on Sept. 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” Cindi Berger, chairman and CEO of Rogers & Cowan PMK, told People Magazine. “He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.”
Redford reportedly died at his home, which is located right outside of Provo, Utah. Indeed, Berger confirmed to The New York Times that he died in his sleep.
Tributes for Redford are already starting to pour in just a few hours after his passing.
“He was amazing,” Robin Wright, who worked with Redford on his 2010 movie The Conspirator, told CBS News. “I mean, what an icon, and his body of work will live on forever. And to be able to be directed by an actor, that was fantastic, and that’s such a rarity. And he’s an icon that’s going to be greatly missed.”
Jane Fonda, who previously starred with Redford in the 1967 romantic comedy Barefoot In The Park, told The New York Post that Redford was a “beautiful person in every way”.
“It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone, I can’t stop crying,” said Fonda, 87. “He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.”
Meanwhile, even President Donald Trump has spoken out to pay tribute to Redford.
“I’ll tell you, Robert Redford was great,” Trump, 79, told reporters outside the White House as he prepared to travel to the United Kingdom. “He had a series of years that he was — there was nobody better.”
Redford’s History
Born in Santa Monica, California in 1936, Redford got his big break in 1963, when he was cast as the lead in the Broadway version of Barefoot In The Park. He then became a household name when he starred with Fonda in the film version four years later.
Redford hit his peak as a Hollywood heartthrob in the 1970s. He scored an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the 1973 Best Picture winner The Sting.
]Redford later turned his attention to directing. He won the Oscar for Best Director for the 1980 movie Ordinary People, another movie that also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Redford went on to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar again for his 1994 film Quiz Show.
“I’ve spent most of my life just focused on the road ahead, not looking back,” Redford said while accepting an honorary Oscar in 2002. “But now tonight, I’m seeing in the rearview mirror that there is something I’ve not thought about much, called history.”
‘I’ve Been Blessed…’
In this same speech, Redford stressed that it’s “important” to “make sure the freedom of artistic expression is nurtured and kept alive, because I believe that in keeping diversity alive it will help keep our industry alive.”
“To be able to be part of a freedom of expression that allows us as artists to tell our stories in our own way about the human condition, the complexities of life, the world around us, is a gift and not one to be taken lightly,” he concluded. “And I think the glory of art is that it can not only survive change, it can lead it. As an artist, I just can’t think of a better life than the one that I’ve been blessed with.”
Redford made his final screen appearance earlier this year with a cameo in the thriller series Dark Winds. He is survived by his wife Sibylle, who he married in 2009. Redford is also survived by two of his four children, and by his grandchildren.
Rest in peace, Robert Redford.