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Quick Facts
- NAME: Clint Eastwood
- OCCUPATION: Actor, Director
- BIRTH DATE: May 31, 1930 (Age: 83)
- EDUCATION: Piedmont Junior and Senior High School, Oakland Technical High School, Seattle University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: San Francisco, California
- AKA: Clint Eastwood
- ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini
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Clint Eastwood has made his name as a popular TV and film actor. He went on to become a famed director, working on several Academy Award-winning films.
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At one point during his convention speech, Eastwood pretended that the chair, or Barack Obama, was speaking to him: "What do you want me to tell Romney?" he asked the chair, "I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself." Eastwood's strange speech spurred several news reports, as well as public discussion via social-network websites.
Personal Life
Eastwood has been married only twice, but had a number of relationships and fathered several children out of wedlock. He was married to Maggie Johnson between 1953 and 1980. They had two children, Alison (1972) and Kyle (1968). While married to Johnson, he had a child by Roxanne Tunis: Kimber Eastwood (1964).
Beginning in 1975, Eastwoof became romantically involved with costar Sondra Locke, which ended bitterly with a palimony suit in 1989. He is the father of two children by Jacelyn Reeves: Kathryn (1988) and Scott (1986). He and Frances Fisher had a daughter, Francesca Ruth. He married Dina Ruiz, a TV newscaster, in 1996. They had a daughter, Morgan, in December 1996.
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