All About Robin Williams

Robin Williams, Actor: Dead Poets Society. Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford Motor Company executive from Indiana. Williams had English, German, French, Welsh, Irish, and ...

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Actor and comedian Robin Williams was known for his high-energy, improvisational performance style and for his performances in films like Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society. He died on August 11, 2014 but he will be forever remembered for all the laughter he bought to millions around the world.

Read about the daring performance style and wide-ranging dramatic roles of actor and comedian Robin Williams, at Biography.com.

The "Mork & Mindy" star had quirky interests the public didn't necessarily know about.

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