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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Robin Williams
Robin Williams was sober but suffering from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease as well as severe depression and anxiety. The 63-year-old Oscar-winning comedic actor, whose madcap style and dramatic versatility made him top star, was found hanged at his Tiburon, California, home north of San Francisco by his assistant. When found, he was dead for a minimum of 12 hours. Here are ten facts you should know about him.
10. Robin Williams was a video games fan. During a Reddit AMA in September 2013, a Redit usr asked him if he named his daughter Zelda after the video game The Legend of Zelda.Williams said, “It wasn’t actually me, it was my son Zachary who came up with the idea. But once Marsha [his ex-wife] and I heard it, we said it was great.” Williams also said he’s been playing Call of Duty, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Portal and Battlestations Pacific.
9. During that same discussion on Reddit, Williams said his favorite celebrity to immitate is Jack Nicholson, while Dana Carvey did his favorite celebrity impersonation of himself.
8. His favorite book as a child up was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
7. Christopher Reeve was Williams’ best friend and roommate at Juilliard. The comedian was the first person who made the Superman actor laugh a few days after being paralyzed in a riding accident. ”He announced that he was a proctologist and had to examine me immediately,” Reeve wrote in his memoir Still Me, according to a New York Times review. “And for the first time since the accident I laughed.”
6. Williams got angry with Disney for using his voice as the Genie in Aladdin to market the movie products. Disney attempted to make up for it by sending him a Picasso painting, thought to have been worth $1 million, in which the artist imagined himself as Vincent van Gogh.
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