Robin Williams died

On Monday, August 11, the holder of the Oscar, American actor Robin Williams, was found dead in his house in California. He was 63 years old.

According to Reuters , the cause of death has not yet been established, but the police have reason to suspect suicide.

Robin Williams was born in 1951 in Chicago, studied at the Dzhulliard School of Drama in New York, and since the early 1970s he began to act as a stand-up comedian, starred in comedy television series, in 1977 his debut in the cinema took place.

In 1987, Williams played a DJ in Barry Levinson's painting “Good Morning, Vietnam” ( Good Morning, Vietnam ), thanks to which he was fame and was nominated for an Oscar.

The actor played many of his roles in comedies. Two more nominations for Oscar brought him the role of a teacher in the film “The Society of Dead Poets” ( Dead Poets Society , 1989) and the role of a madman in the film “ The Fisher King, 1991). In 1998, Williams received the American Film Academy Award as the best second -plan actor for the role of a psychologist in the film “Clever Will Hunting ).

Among his last films is the comedy “Night in Museum 3: The Secret of the Tomb” ( Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ), which will be released in December 2014.