Richard Dreyfuss stars in "Weeds" on Showtime in a recurring role.
Richard Dreyfuss most recently starred in "The Lightkeepers," opposite Blythe Danner, "My Life in Ruins," with Nia Vardalos, Tim Blake Nelson's "Leaves of Grass," opposite Edward Norton, and Oliver Stone's "W" as Vice President Dick Cheney.
Three of Richard Dreyfuss's films are included in the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest films. At age 20, Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in "The Goodbye Girl."
Throughout his life, Dreyfuss has been known not only for his acting but also for his commitment to political and social activism. He has campaigned for candidates and causes and given testimony advocating for national service before congressional committees. Together with Columbia University and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he created a conference at the Strasburg Institute in Austria for Israeli and Arab journalists, including representatives from Arab, American and European Television news networks such as Al Jazeera, CNN and the BBC. He is co-founder of L.A. Works, a non-profit public action and volunteer center in Los Angeles. Dreyfuss is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Dreyfuss is most passionate about the need for civic engagement in the United States and the return of a civics curriculum to every American classroom. To that end, in 2005, he became Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony's College at Oxford University in England. While there, he has been researching and helping to design a new curriculum for American public schools, K-12, that teaches political power in a republican democracy.
He has given lectures on the need for civic engagement at the London School of Economics; Oxford University; Cambridge University; WNYC; James Madison University; George Mason University; The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Yale University; Bronx Science High School; The National Press Club; and the National Association of Secondary School Principals and Superintendents.
In addition to his more recent work, Dreyfuss was the executive producer, writer and host of the award-winning ABC special honoring the bicentennial of the Constitution, "Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville."
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dreyfuss and his parents moved to Los Angeles, where he soon realized he wanted to spend his life as an actor. He began his acting career at age nine, playing Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, at the Westside Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. After his formal schooling, he spent two years as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, doing alternative service as a clerk at the Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Dreyfuss made his motion picture debut in 1967 with a bit part in "Valley of the Dolls," followed by one line in "The Graduate." Several films later, in 1973, his sensitive portrayal of an ambivalent college-bound teen in the cult classic "American Graffiti" garnered him both praise and attention. This was the beginning of a string of stellar performances in such films as "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Goodbye Girl" and "Mr. Holland's Opus." In recent years, Dreyfuss has returned to his theatrical roots, with starring roles in "The Hands of Its Enemy"; "The Normal Heart"; the Broadway production of "Death and the Maiden," with Glenn Close and Gene Hackman; and "Three Hotels," with Christine Lahti at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
In 2000, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hollywood Film Festival.
Richard Dreyfuss most recently starred in "The Lightkeepers," opposite Blythe Danner, "My Life in Ruins," with Nia Vardalos, Tim Blake Nelson's "Leaves of Grass," opposite Edward Norton, and Oliver Stone's "W" as Vice President Dick Cheney.
Three of Richard Dreyfuss's films are included in the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest films. At age 20, Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in "The Goodbye Girl."
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Twenty-nine years later, for his role as the teacher in "Mr. Holland's Opus," he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor.Throughout his life, Dreyfuss has been known not only for his acting but also for his commitment to political and social activism. He has campaigned for candidates and causes and given testimony advocating for national service before congressional committees. Together with Columbia University and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he created a conference at the Strasburg Institute in Austria for Israeli and Arab journalists, including representatives from Arab, American and European Television news networks such as Al Jazeera, CNN and the BBC. He is co-founder of L.A. Works, a non-profit public action and volunteer center in Los Angeles. Dreyfuss is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Dreyfuss is most passionate about the need for civic engagement in the United States and the return of a civics curriculum to every American classroom. To that end, in 2005, he became Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony's College at Oxford University in England. While there, he has been researching and helping to design a new curriculum for American public schools, K-12, that teaches political power in a republican democracy.
He has given lectures on the need for civic engagement at the London School of Economics; Oxford University; Cambridge University; WNYC; James Madison University; George Mason University; The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Yale University; Bronx Science High School; The National Press Club; and the National Association of Secondary School Principals and Superintendents.
In addition to his more recent work, Dreyfuss was the executive producer, writer and host of the award-winning ABC special honoring the bicentennial of the Constitution, "Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville."
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dreyfuss and his parents moved to Los Angeles, where he soon realized he wanted to spend his life as an actor. He began his acting career at age nine, playing Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, at the Westside Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. After his formal schooling, he spent two years as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, doing alternative service as a clerk at the Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Dreyfuss made his motion picture debut in 1967 with a bit part in "Valley of the Dolls," followed by one line in "The Graduate." Several films later, in 1973, his sensitive portrayal of an ambivalent college-bound teen in the cult classic "American Graffiti" garnered him both praise and attention. This was the beginning of a string of stellar performances in such films as "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Goodbye Girl" and "Mr. Holland's Opus." In recent years, Dreyfuss has returned to his theatrical roots, with starring roles in "The Hands of Its Enemy"; "The Normal Heart"; the Broadway production of "Death and the Maiden," with Glenn Close and Gene Hackman; and "Three Hotels," with Christine Lahti at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
In 2000, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hollywood Film Festival.
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