Robin Williams

ROBIN WILLIAMS d2014. American actor and comedian known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and portrayed in drama and comedy films. He is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He received numerous accolades including ; an Academy Award / two Primetime Emmy Awards / six Golden Globe Awards / five Grammy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He rose to fame playing the alien Mork in the ABC sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978–1982). He received his first leading film role in Popeye (1980). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting (1997). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Good Morning Vietnam (1987) / Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Fisher King (1991). During his final years, he struggled with severe depression before his death from suicide in 2014 at his Paradise Cay California home aged 63. According to his widow, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and had been experiencing depression, anxiety and increasing paranoia