Legendary actor and filmmaker Robert Redford dies at 89

“Robert Redford age 89 died on September 16, 2025, at his home in Sundance, in the mountains of Utah that he loved so dearly. He was surrounded by family and will be deeply missed,” Berger said. Robert Redford was married twice and had 4 children. He wed his first wife Lola Van Wagenen in 1958. The couple had 4 children named Scott, Shauna, James and Amy. Redford and Van Wagenen lost their firstborn son Scott in 1959 to SIDS as a child. Their son James died in 2020 from cancer. The couple divorced in 1985, Smooth Radio reports.

In 2009 he married his second wife, Sibylle Szaggars. Szaggars is a German-born environmental artist. The couple had been together since 1996.

Off the screen, Robert Redford obituary also created a worldwide community for independent filmmaking as the founder of the Sundance Institute and its globally celebrated Sundance Film Festival.

Robert Redford career a passionate environmentalist, moving to Utah in 1961 and championing the conservation of the natural world in the American West for the next several decades as a Robert Redford environmentalist.

In later years, Redford continued to Robert Redford movies, reuniting with Jane Fonda for Netflix’s Our Souls at Night in 2017 and starring in The Old Man & the Gun in 2018, which he teased as a possible final role. But Redford was loath to retire. “To me, retirement means stopping something or quitting something,” he told CBS Sunday Morning in 2018. “There’s this life to lead — why not live it as fully as you can, for as long as you can?”

In 2020, Redford gave a clarion call for environmentalism once again, penning an opinion piece for CNN that raised the alarm on the deadly impacts of climate change during a time of rampant wildfires in the western U.S.