Richard Dreyfuss from The Goodbye Girl

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1. Merlyn
   

   A life in brief
   
   Born: Richard Stephen Dreyfus, 29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York. He later added the second S to his surname.
   
   Family: Married to Svetlana Erokhin, his third wife. Has one daughter and two sons from his first marriage.
   
   Early life: At the age of nine his family moved to Los Angeles, where he starred in plays at the Beverly Hills Jewish Center. Dreyfuss was later kicked out of San Fernando Valley State College for demanding that a professor apologise for criticising Marlon Brando's performance in a production of Julius Caesar.
   
   Career: Although his first screen role was in The Graduate, the breakthrough came playing Baby Face Nelson in Dillinger. Dreyfuss went on to win the best actor Oscar in 1978 for The Goodbye Girl. After his arrest for cocaine possession in 1982, he received an Oscar nomination in 1996 for Mr Holland's Opus. Dreyfuss has kept busy with his political activism, as well as a stint lecturing at Oxford University. He appeared as d**k Cheney in W last year.
   
   He says: "I've been rich and famous. And I've been broke. I've had love and success. I've had all the money in the world. I've questioned everything I've had so far. I have no regrets about being a movie star."
   
   They say: "I was really looking for actors who were still closer to their own memories of their own childhoods. Richard Dreyfuss was a bigger kid than the children he was raising." Steven Spielberg, director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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