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Kevin
Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an Academy Award- and
Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. During the 1980s
and early-1990s, Kline made several films with director Lawrence
Kasdan, including The Big Chill, Silverado, Grand Canyon, I Love
You To Death, and French Kiss. In the mid-1990s, he was supposed
to star as Mandrake the Magician in the movie of the same name,
but the film never got off the ground. In 1989, Kline won an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the
British comedy A Fish Called Wanda, in which he played a
caricature of a painfully stupid American ex-CIA thug opposite
John Cleese's genteel British barrister and Jamie Lee Curtis'
femme fatale/con woman. In 2000, the American Film Institute
ranked the film twenty-first on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs. On
January 27, 2008, Kline won a Screen Actors Guild award for his
portrayal of Jaques in Kenneth Branagh's film As You Like It,
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