Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins is an american actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician.

He is very vocal about the war in Iraq and often voices his opinion about issues. He has liberal political views. The films he does often reflect his own personal liberal political views. A film that represents this is 'Bob Roberts' which is a film about politics in the United States in the 1990's. Also Tim Robbins is quite controversial and sometimes plays controversial characters in some films.

The films he has worked on are:

Bull Durham, The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Player, Dead Man Walking, Green Lantern, Bob Roberts and The secret life of words.


He usually plays heroes or villains in films and mostly plays the main character. His character often tries to relate to other characters that are lower than him. Also he plays characters that are flawed and characters that the audience can relate to.  



Tim Robbins is regarded as a big star and gets to star and direct films. Also he mostly stars in films that are well known and made by big film studios.

Their is a relationship between his public persona (what is in the media about him) and the roles they play. In this instance Tim Robbins is known to be a activist who stands up for what he believes in and similarly the characters that he plays do this as well. As well as this he has won lots of awards for his acting and directing.