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Kevin Costner's Parents and Wife: 15 Family Facts

1. #001

   Kevin Costner turned down the role in Platoon (1986) because he felt it portrayed American soldiers in Vietnam negatively and he did not want to insult his brother, a Vietnam veteran.

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2. #006

   Kevin Costner's favorite genre is the Western.

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3. #020

   Some of Kevin Costner's favorite films are How the West Was Won (1962), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Giant (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Great Escape (1963), Hombre (1967), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Magnificent Seven (1960).

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4. #023

   Kevin Costner is the youngest of three sons of Bill Costner, an electrician and later a public utilities executive, and his wife Sharon Costner, a social worker.

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5. #024

   Together with his brother Dan, Kevin Costner founded Costner Industries Nevada Corporation (CINC) in Carson City. The company produces a Liquid-Liquid Centrifugal Separator that cleans oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

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6. #025

   Kevin Costner's children are: Liam Costner (born 1996, with former girlfriend Bridget Rooney); Anne Clayton Costner (born April 15, 1984), Lily McCall Costner (born August 4, 1986) and Joe Tedrick Costner (born January 31, 1988), with former wife Cindy Costner; and Cayden Wyatt Costner (born May 6, 2007), Hayes Logan Costner (born February 12, 2009) and Grace Avery Costner (born June 2, 2010), with wife Christine Baumgartner.

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7. #028

   Kevin Costner's production companies are TIG Productions and Treehouse Films. Tig was his father's grandmother's nickname.

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8. #029

   Kevin Costner's favorite films are long epics that contain many stories.

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9. #034

   Kevin Costner is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German and Swiss-German descent. He has also stated that he has Cherokee roots, but it is unclear whether this ancestry is documented.

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10. #047

    Some of Kevin Costner's favorite directors are Frank Capra, George Stevens, John Sturges, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.

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11. #055

    On June 26, 2003, Kevin Costner announced his engagement to his girlfriend Christine Baumgartner, whom he had been with since 1999.

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12. #058

    Kevin Costner attended and graduated from Villa Park High School in Villa Park, California (1973).

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13. #062

    Kevin Costner was born just one day after his brother Mark's second birthday.

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14. #075

    Kevin Costner is the father of Joe Costner, Annie Costner and Lily Costner.

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15. #078

    Kevin Costner graduated from the same university as Gilbert J. Menchaca.

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