Robert Forster

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Summary

Robert Forster was an American actor whose screen career included Medium Cool, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and an Oscar-nominated performance in Jackie Brown. After early leading roles and a long stretch of action and genre films, he became a familiar character actor in films such as Mulholland Drive and The Descendants, and television series including Twin Peaks and Breaking Bad. His roles ranged from reporters and lawmen to sympathetic figures facing personal or family crises. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, activism, or political causes are on record.