THE WOMAN IN GOLD

Drama

Based on a true story, Helen Mirren delivers another exceptional performance as an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann. Sixty years after fleeing Vienna to live in Canada, Altmann seeks to reclaim family possessions seized by the Nazis during World War II. Among them is Gustav Klimt’s famous gold leaf painting of her Aunt Adele, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Unfortunately for Altmann, the Austrian government fights tooth and nail to keep the painting. So begins a journey that, along with her inexperienced lawyer (Ryan Reynolds), takes her to the centre of the Austrian establishment and the US Supreme Court.

■ Turns 80 next year on August 18, 2016.

■ Birth name is Charles Robert Redford, Jr.

■ Lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of drunkenness.

■ Missed out on the role of Ben Braddock in The Graduate (1967) because director Mike Nichols didn’t think anyone would believe Redford would have trouble getting “the girl”. The role went to Dustin Hoffman.

■ Although best known as an actor, has also won an Academy Award for Best Director ( Ordinary People, 1980).

■ Often did his own stunts in action sequences but made sure the stunt men hired for it were paid, so as not to put anyone out of work.

■ Dislikes watching his own films, apart from The Sting (1973), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.

■ Over the years, his height has raised much speculation, with estimates ranging from 1.70m to 1.87m. Our best guess? 1.79m.

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