Editing Robert Redford (section)

== Early life and education ==
Redford was born on August 18, 1936,<ref>{{cite news|title=Monitor|newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=Aug 17–24, 2012|issue=1220/1221|page=28}}</ref> in [[Santa Monica, California]], to Martha Woodruff Redford ([[birth name|née]] Hart; 1914–1955), who was from [[Austin, Texas]], and Charles Robert Redford Sr. (1914–1991), an accountant.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schlosser |first1=Conor |title=Keeping Nature in the Picture: An Interview with Robert Redford |url=https://orionmagazine.org/article/robert-redford-nature-interview/ |website=[[Orion (magazine)|Orion]] |access-date=23 February 2025 |date=8 November 2024}}</ref> He has a paternal half-brother, William.<ref name=tca>Stated on ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]'', 2005</ref> Redford is of [[Irish people|Irish]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]], and [[English people|English]] ancestry.<ref name=callan>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDVXCQgRBaAC&q=robert+redford+grandfather+charles+elisha&pg=PT28|title=Robert Redford: The Biography |date=2011 |first=Michael Feeney |last=Callan|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9780857206190|access-date=April 25, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Farber |first=Stephen |date=October 20, 1991 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/ads/theclearing/redford_4.html |title=Sponsored Archives: A Robert Redford Retrospective, Redford Turns West Again |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116123746/http://www.nytimes.com/ads/theclearing/redford_4.html |archive-date=January 16, 2016 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=January 6, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/gbr_78.asp |title=New England Historic Genealogical Society |access-date=April 27, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212091640/http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/gbr_78.asp |archive-date=December 12, 2005 }}. Web.archive.org (December 12, 2005). Retrieved January 6, 2012.</ref> His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of [[Irish Catholic]] descent, in [[Manchester|Manchester, Lancashire]]. They emigrated to [[New York City]] in America in 1849, immediately settling next in [[Stonington, Connecticut]]. They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name. Regarding Redford's maternal lineage, the Harts were Irish from [[Galway]] and the Greens were [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scotch-Irish]] who settled in the United States in the 18th century.<ref name=callan/> Redford's family lived in [[Van Nuys]] while his father worked in [[El Segundo, California|El Segundo]]. As a child, he and his family would often travel to [[Austin, Texas]] to visit his maternal grandfather and credits his environmentalism and love of nature to his childhood in Texas.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies/article/Redford-discusses-how-Texas-saved-itself-from-1786207.php | title=Redford discusses how Texas saved itself from serious environmental harm | work=Chron | date=March 23, 2008 }}</ref>

Robert attended [[Van Nuys High School]], where he was classmates with baseball pitcher [[Don Drysdale]].<ref name=tca/><ref name=drrphsbb>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/07/did-robert-redford-play-high-school-baseball-with-don-drysdale.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |agency=(blog) |last=Cronin |first=Brian |title=Did Robert Redford play high school baseball with Don Drysdale? |date=July 14, 2011 |access-date=August 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812155939/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/07/did-robert-redford-play-high-school-baseball-with-don-drysdale.html |archive-date=August 12, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> He has described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom in art and sports.<ref name=tca/> He hit tennis balls with [[Pancho Gonzalez]] at the [[Los Angeles Tennis Club]] to help Gonzalez warm up for matches. Redford had a mild case of [[polio]] when he was 11.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/polio-battle-sparked-redfords-jonas-doco/tsp2hrecj |title=Polio battle sparked Redford's Jonas doco |website=[[Special Broadcasting Service]] |agency=[[Australian Associated Press]] |date=February 13, 2014 |access-date=December 15, 2024}}</ref>

After graduating from high school in 1954,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.biography.com/people/robert-redford-9453490 | title=Robert Redford | access-date=April 24, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427114231/http://www.biography.com/people/robert-redford-9453490 | archive-date=April 27, 2016 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all }}</ref> he attended the [[University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado]] in [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]] for a year and a half,<ref name=tca/><ref name=rpanatl>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7oEcAAAAIBAJ&pg=4491%2C4173446 |newspaper=The Dispatch |location=(Lexington, North Carolina) |agency=Associated Press |last=De Forest |first=Ben |title=Redford plays a natural |date=August 10, 1983 |page=9}}</ref><ref name=rfvps>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K2AxAAAAIBAJ&pg=5533%2C6078589 |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star|location=(North Carolina)|agency=Associated Press |title=Redford visits 'party school' |date=May 14, 1987|page=7D}}</ref> where he was a member of [[Kappa Sigma]] [[Fraternities and sororities<!-- in North America-->|fraternity]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kappasigma.org/alumni/entertainmentmedia/ |title=Entertainment/Media |website=Kappa Sigma Fraternity |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822021732/http://www.kappasigma.org/alumni/entertainmentmedia/ |archive-date=August 22, 2014 }}</ref> While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness now figures prominently among the bar's murals.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/crazywanda/863313365/ |title=Entra |publisher=Flickr.com |access-date=July 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207091656/https://www.flickr.com/photos/crazywanda/863313365/ |archive-date=February 7, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school.<ref name=rpanatl/><ref name=rfvps/> He went on to travel in [[Europe]], living in [[France]], [[Spain]], and [[Italy]].<ref name=tca/> He later studied painting at the [[Pratt Institute]] in [[Brooklyn]] and took classes at the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]] (Class of 1959) in New York City.<ref name=tca/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/04/arts/academy-of-dramatic-arts-at-100.html|title=Academy of Dramatic Arts at 100|first=Nan|last=Robertson|date=October 4, 1984|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>