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Tim Robbins is an American actor known for his roles in major films and television productions. He matters as a significant figure in entertainment who has contributed to popular culture through his acting work.
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- The Player
- Cradle will rock / by Tim Robbins
- Times are changing back
- Another Roadside Attraction Screenplay
- The Team. The Time. The 2006 Mets
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Acting · West Covina, California, USA
Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and musician. He is best known for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the prison drama film The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
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- Quelqu’un devrait interdire les dimanches après-midi — Ted Mackey2026
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self2025
- On the Rungs of Jacob's Ladder — Self2025
- Silo — Bernard Holland2023
- Nothing Compares — Self (archive footage)2022
- VHYes — Sir Roger Handley III2020
- My Darling Vivian — Self (archive footage)2020
- Dark Waters — Tom Terp2019
- The Creative Brain — Self2019
- Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero — Self2019
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Tim Robbins (born West Covina, California, 16 October 1958) is primarily (in fact, almost exclusively) known as a movie actor (Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, Oliver Lang in Arlington Road, Dave Boyle in Mystic River) and producer/director (DeadMan Walking). He is, however, also a musician. He plays the guitar, has written songs for several decades, performs live every once in a while and has undertaken projects with musicians such as Pete Seeger, but did not release an album... yet.
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- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
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- Rapid colorimetric assay for cellular growth and survival: Application to proliferation and cytotoxicity assays
· 1983 · cited 45,680x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,734x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x
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Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Known for his leading roles in film and television, his accolades include an Academy Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Award and a Grammy Award.
Robbins made his acting debut in St. Elsewhere (1982) before taking supporting roles in The Sure Thing (1985), Top Gun (1986), Bull Durham (1988), and Jungle Fever (1991). He took leading roles in Jacob's Ladder (1990), The Player (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), I.Q. (1994) and Nothing to Lose (1997). For his role in the Clint Eastwood directed drama Mystic River (2003) he won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role. He later acted in Zathura (2005), The Lucky Ones (2007), Green Lantern (2011), and Dark Waters (2019).
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