Oscar winner Kevin Costner is still active at the age of 68: with four decades of artistic career, the father of seven children remains handsome and has no plans to retire

Actor, director and screenwriter Kevin Costner turned 68 last January and is still actively involved in acting. Namely, his name hit the headlines in the first months of 2023 because the last part of the fifth season of “Yellowstone”, the series in which Costner has the main role, has not yet been filmed.

Kevin Costner returns to westerns with ‘Yellowstone’

With the character of John Dutton, Costner gave a new impetus to his career spanning more than four decades, and it was this performance that won him the Golden Globe for the best actor in a television series.

Currently, the Paramout+ series, which has aired since 2018, is on hiatus after the eighth episode of the fifth season aired in January. The second part of the season is still delayed, and the media speculated a lot about the continuity of Kevin Costner in the western.

Kevin Costner, aspiring actor and businessman

But this is not a reason to worry for the Oscar winner, because in his almost 70 years of life, he has added the title of entrepreneur to his curriculum by investing in restaurants, amusement parks and machines for separating oil from seawater. Gulf of Mexico, as reported by La Vanguardia.

“Yellowstone” is not the end of his career because while rumors are growing about alleged disagreements between Costner and the director of the series Taylor Sheridan, the actor is already working on his next project.

The Spanish newspaper mentions that the remembered Frank Farmer from “bodyguard” He is already working on the filming of the American western epic “Horizont”. This would be his fourth project as a producer, director, and actor.

This film exposes the ambition of Kevin Costner, who plans to make three more sequels involving at least 170 characters and which will also give way to the series.

“The westward expansion of the United States involved fighting against the dangers of the natural elements, interacting with the native populations that lived in those lands, and the determination and often cruelty of those who wanted to settle there. Horizon tells the story of that journey honestly, showing different points of view,” Costner said in an interview with the website Deadline.

From an actor to a father of seven children, very devoted to his family

But acting and work are only part of Kevin Costner’s life. In addition to dealing with his work projects when necessary, he is a family man and the father of seven children born in three different relationships.

He is also known as a music lover, because he likes to sing and play the guitar, which is why he has his own band, as he assumes on his Instagram profile.

Their ages are known by descendants because they are not exposed in their networks. His first three children, aged 39, 37 and 35, were the result of his first marriage to Cindy Silva, whom he met at university, he recalls. Vanguard.

His fourth child, aged around 27, was born from his relationship with Bridget Rooney, and finally, in his last and current marriage to designer Christine Baumgarten, the last three were born, who are now 16, 14 and 13 years old.

“I love my job, but it is not the most important thing in my life. That place is occupied by my family,” he said in an interview in 2020, which is quoted today by the Spanish media. (AND)