Robin+William

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 * Former actor, voice actor and stand up comedian, Robin McLaurin William was born July 21, 1951. Robin was born in Chicago, illinois and moved to San Fransico, Californa when he was 16. In real life standing Robin is 1.70m tall. Robin also has two half brothers. Robin Williams is the subject of this digital biograhy.**

__**Early Life**__
 * He was raised in the Episcopal Church.**
 * He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School and later moved to Woodarce, Main Country California. Where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont Mckenna Collage, that later on was called Claremont Men's Collage for four years.**

__**Marriges and Children**__
 * Robin Williams' first marriage was to Valerie Velardi on June 4, 1978. They have one child, Zachary Pym and he was born April 11, 1983. During Robin's ' first marriage, he was involved in an extramarital relationship with Michelle Tish Carter, a cocktail waitress who he met in 1984. Williams and Velardi divorced in 1988.**
 * On April 30, 1989, he married Marsha Garces, his son's nanny, who was already several months pregnant with his****child. They have two children, Zelda Rae that was born July 31, 1989 and Cody Alan who was born November 25, 1991. However, in March 2008, Garces filed for divorce from Williams, citing irreconcilable differences. Robin has two half-brothers: Todd who died August 14, 2007 and McLaurin.**

__**Television Career**__
 * After appearing in the cast of the short-lived The Richard Pryor Show on NBC, Williams was cast by Garry Marshall as the alien Mork in the hit TV series Happy Days after impressing the producer with his quirky sense of humor when he sat on his head when asked to take a seat for the audition. As Mork, Robin's improvised much of his dialogue and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice. Mork's appearance was so popular with viewers that it led to a spin-off hit television sitcom, Mork and Mindy, which ran from 1978 to 1982; the show was written to accommodate Williams' improvisations. Although he played the same character as in his appearance in //Happy Days//, the show was set in the present day, in Boulder, Colorado, instead of the late '50s in Milwaukee Mork was an extremely popular character, featured on posters, coloring books, lunchboxes, and other merchandise. Starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Williams began to reach a wider audience with his standup comedy, including three HBO comedy specials, //Off The Wall// (1978), //An Evening with Robin Williams// (1982), and //Robin Williams: Live at the Met// (1986). Also in 1986, Williams co-hosted the 58th Academy Awards.**

__**Addiction and Health Problems**__ John Belushi
 * During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had an addiction to cocaine, he has stated that and now he has since quit. Williams was a close friend of and frequent partier alongside John Belushi. He says the death of his friend and the birth of his son prompted him to quit drugs: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped too.** **On August 9, 2006, Williams checked himself in to a substance-abuse rehabilitation center which was located in Newberg, Oregon and later admitting that he was an alcoholic. His publicist delivered the announcement. After 20 years of sobriety, Robin Williams found himself drinking again and has decided to take proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family. Williams was hospitalized in March 2009 due to heart problems. He postponed his one-man tour in order to undergo surgery to replace his aortic valve. The surgery was successfully completed on March 13, 2009, at the Cleveland Clinic. During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show Williams discussed the fact that the drug Propofol had been used on him during his operation. Williams commented that Jackson had been taking the drug to sleep, which he compared to "doing chemotherapy because you're tired of shaving your head". This comment caused much hilarity among the audience and others guests, but Williams emphasised the fact that Propofol is a "devastatingly powerful drug" that should be only administered in hospital, where as Jackson had been using it at home.**

__**Movie Roles**__ media type="youtube" key="MAp8j4c2LGs" width="296" height="245"media type="youtube" key="FS9r9BZu-0s" width="296" height="245"
 * Most of Williams' acting career has been in film, although he has given some performances on stage as well as Estragon in a production of Waiting for Godot with Steve Martin. His performance in Good Morning, Vietnom (1987) resulted in Williams being nominated for an Academy Award. Many of his roles have been comedies tinged with pathos.** **His role as the Genie in the animated film Aladdin (1992) was instrumental in establishing the importance of star power in voice actor casting. Williams used his voice talents again in Ferm Gully, as the holographic Dr. Know in the 2001 film //A.I. which means Artificial Intelligence//, in the 2005 animated film //Robots//, the 2006 Academy Award-winning //Happy Feet//, and an uncredited vocal performance in the film //Everyone's Hero//. He was also the voice of The Timekeeper, a former attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort about a time-traveling robot who encounters Jules Verne and brings him to the future.**