Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Costner starred in Fandango, American Flyers, Silverado and many other films. He rose to prominence with his starring roles in The Untouchables and No Way Out (1987). He then starred in Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards, JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). In 1995, Costner starred in and co-produced Waterworld. His second directorial feature, The Postman, was released in 1997.
He later starred in Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Dragonfly (2002), Rumor Has It (2005), The Guardian (2006), Mr. Brooks (2007), 3 Days to Kill (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), Draft Day (2014), and Criminal (2016). He has also played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly's Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020).
On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the drama series Yellowstone for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
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Primarily2025 Amazing Stories: The Movie I as Captain (archive footage)
2025 Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 3 as Hayes Ellison Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay
2025 Custer State Park: Spirit of Tatanka as Narrator
2025 Headhunters as Lazer Writer, Producer
2025 Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 4 as Hayes Ellison Producer, Director, Screenplay, Story
2025 Untitled Kevin Costner/Ariel Vromen Project Writer, Producer
2024 Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 as Hayes Ellison Producer, Director, Screenplay, Story
2024 Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 as Hayes Ellison Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
2024 How to Rob a Bank as Robin Hood (archive footage)
2022 Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' as Self (archive footage)
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Jonathan Kent (voice) (uncredited)
2021 Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All as Self (archive footage)
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020 Let Him Go as George Blackledge Executive Producer
2019 The Art of Racing in the Rain as Enzo (voice)
2019 The Highwaymen as Frank Hamer Executive Producer
2018 Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld as Himself / The Mariner (archive footage)
2018 Whitney as Self - Actor
2018 Yellowstone Executive Producer
2017 The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, The War for Independence, And The Making of America as Narrator (voice)
2017 Molly's Game as Larry Bloom
2016 Hidden Figures as Al Harrison
2016 The Hurt Business as Narrator (voice)
2016 Criminal as Jerico Stewart
2016 Fastball as Narrator
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Jonathan Kent
2015 Billy The Kid: New Evidence as Narrator (voice)
2015 McFarland, USA as Jim White
2014 Hollywood Banker as Self
2014 Black or White as Elliot Anderson Producer
2014 The Man Who Saved the World as Self
2014 Draft Day as Sonny Weaver Jr.
2014 3 Days to Kill as Agent Ethan Renner
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as William Harper
2013 Man of Steel as Jonathan Kent
2013 Kevin Costner : le secret d'une image parfaite as Self
2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013 Bruce Willis: Why the Legend Never Dies as Self
2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2011 Field of Dreams 2: Lockout as Iowa Farmer's Dad
2011 Clint Eastwood's West as Self
2010 The Company Men as Jack Dolan
2010 Petty Blue as Narrator (voice)
2009 The New Daughter as John James
2008 NASCAR: The Ride of Their Lives as Narrator (voice)
2008 Swing Vote as Bud Johnson Producer
2007 Mr. Brooks as Earl Brooks Producer
2006 Ever Again as Narrator (voice)
2006 The Guardian as Ben Randall
2006 Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World as Self
2006 On Native Soil as Narrator (voice)
2005 Rumor Has It... as Beau Burroughs
2005 Pennis from Heaven as Self
2005 The Upside of Anger as Denny Davies
2004 The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast as Self (archive footage)
2004 The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre as Self (archive footage)
2004 The Untouchables: Production Stories as Self (archive footage)
2004 Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime as Self
2004 Beyond the 'Open Range' as Self
2003 Open Range as Charley Waite Director, Producer
2003 Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic as Self
2002 Bull Durham: Between the Lines as Self
2002 Dragonfly as Joe Darrow
2001 Between The Lines - The Making of Bull Durham as self
2001 3000 Miles to Graceland as Thomas J. Murphy
2000 Thirteen Days as Kenneth O'Donnell Producer
2000 When It Was a Game 3 as Passage Narrator (voice)
1999 Play It to the Bone as Kevin Costner (Ringside Fan)
1999 For Love of the Game as Billy Chapel
1999 Message in a Bottle as Garrett Blake Producer
1998 Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery as Self
1997 The Postman as The Postman Director, Producer
1997 Fierce Creatures Thanks
1996 Tin Cup as Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy
1996 A Century of Science Fiction as Self
1995 Waterworld as Mariner Producer
1994 The War as Stephen Simmons
1994 Wyatt Earp as Wyatt Earp Producer
1994 Rapa Nui Producer
1993 A Perfect World as Robert 'Butch' Haynes
1993 Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
1992 The Bodyguard as Frank Farmer Producer
1992 Whitney Houston: This is My Life as Himself
1991 JFK as Jim Garrison
1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood Producer, Production Consultant
1991 Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie as Self
1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare as Self
1990 The Making of 'Dances with Wolves' as Himself
1990 Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
1990 The Gunrunner as Ted
1990 The Earth Day Special as Bartender
1990 Dances with Wolves as Lieutenant Dunbar Director, Producer
1990 Revenge as Michael J. Cochran Executive Producer
1989 Chasing Dreams as Ed
1989 Field of Dreams as Ray Kinsella
1988 Bull Durham as Crash Davis
1987 No Way Out as Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
1987 The Untouchables as Eliot Ness
1986 Amazing Stories as Captain
1985 American Flyers as Marcus Sommers
1985 Silverado as Jake
1985 Fandango as Gardner Barnes
1984 Shadows Run Black as Jimmy Scott
1983 Testament as Phil Pitkin
1983 The Big Chill as Alex (corpse)
1983 Stacy's Knights as Will Bonner
1983 Table for Five as Newlywed Husband
1982 Frances as Luther (uncredited)
1982 Human Highway Manager of Operations
1982 Night Shift as Frat Boy #1
1981 Malibu Hot Summer as John Logan