artículo explora la carrera temprana de Robin Williams en la televisión , argumentando que su papel no convencional en Mork and Mindy resultó ser el vehículo perfecto para esto , informando a sus papeles futuros y sirviendo como una trayectoria para su carrera cinematográfica , por ende ofreciendo una lección temática para futuros actores que busquen el estrellato cinematográfico .
Palabras clave : Robin Williams , Mork , Ork , comedia de situación , Mork and Mindy , Dead Poets Society , Hook , Aladdin , Mrs . Doubtfire , Good Will Hunting
When Viola Davis accepted her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony , she said in her impassioned speech , “ I became an artist , and thank God I did , because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life ” (“ Viola Davis ”). The actors who do this well — those who have the rare talent to capture what it means to be alive and human — grace the movie screen and win Oscars . Many actors aspire to this , but few achieve it , especially those who start out in stand-up comedy and television sitcoms . Robin Williams , however , accomplished what only a select number of actors ever do : he made the transition from TV sitcom to Oscar-worthy , bigscreen performances . His unconventional role in Mork and Mindy proved the perfect vehicle for this , informing his future roles and serving as a trajectory for his film career , thus offering a thematic lesson for comic actors seeking movie stardom .
Robin Williams was born in Chicago on July 21 , 1951 , to wealthy , preoccupied parents who later moved to a thirty-room mansion on twenty acres of land near Detroit , Michigan . “‘ I was living on this huge estate ,’ said Williams ‘ It was miles to the next kid ’” ( qtd . in David 3 ). He attended elite private schools , where , short and overweight , he was often bullied by classmates who called him names such as “ dwarf ” and “ leprechaun ” ( David 3 ). Although by the time he entered high school , Williams had shed his baby fat , taken up sports , and become a popular , outgoing class clown , as a child he had spent a lot of time isolated and
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