New Yorker Richard Dreyfuss was one of the faces that defined the New Hollywood of the 1970s, stringing together generational classics like 'American Graffiti', 'Jaws' and Steven Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'. In 1977 he became, at 30, one of the youngest actors to win the Best Actor Oscar for the romantic comedy 'The Goodbye Girl'. His career spanned very diverse registers, from the suspense of 'Stakeout' to the comedy of 'What About Bob?', and he returned to the front rank with the moving 'Mr. Holland's Opus', which earned him another Oscar nomination. Endowed with a very characteristic nervous, verbal energy, Dreyfuss brings his characters a blend of vulnerability and irony. Read more