Robert Redford (1936-2025): THE WOMEN WHO LOVED HIM

THE LEGENDARY ACTOR WASNT JUST BELOVED BY FANS, BUT ALSO HIS COSTARS. STAR LOOKS BACK ON THE A-LIST ACTRESSES WHO FELL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR HIM.

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MEANT TO BE Robert met his second wife, Sibylle, in 1996 at his Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah. The artist didn't know much about him- or his movies. "That's one of the things that attracted me to her," he said at a National YoungArts Foundation panel in 2014.

ROBERT REDFORD didn't consider himself a sex symbol. In a 1974 interview with The New York Times, the movie star confessed, “I never thought of myself as a glamorous guy, a handsome guy, any of that.” Audiences clearly thought otherwise. Throughout the course of his decades-long career, the reluctant heartthrob, who passed away in his sleep at his Utah home Sept. 16 at the age of 89, captivated audiences with his rugged good looks and golden-boy charm, earning his first Oscar nod in 1973 for The Sting.

He also dazzled his leading ladies, from Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep to Jane Fonda and others. “I can’t stop crying,” Jane posted after news of his death broke, while Barbra called him “charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting.” As an insider tells Star, “Actresses adored Bob. It’s safe to say what they were feeling about him transferred to the screen to create sizzling chemistry.”

ONSCREEN ROMANCE

In Robert Hofler’s book The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen, the late director Sydney Pollack revealed that Barbra was “delighted” to star opposite Robert in the 1973 romance-drama