Robert Redford, the Academy Award-winning actor, director and activist who became one of Hollywood's most magnetic leading men and transformed independent cinema through the Sundance Film Festival, has died aged 89 at his Utah home.
His death on 16 September 2025 comes nearly four years after losing his son James Redford, acclaimed filmmaker and philanthropist, to cancer, marking the end of a six-decade career that reshaped American filmmaking.
