Robbins was innate around West Covina, California, but moved to Greenwich Village with his family at the immature age when his father, Gil Robbins, pursued a career as a member of the folk music group The Highwaymen. He joined Theater for a New City at age twelve, & participated in the drama club at Stuyvesant High School, then spent ii years at Plattsburgh State University, then returned to California to attend drama school at UCLA.

within graduation in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in Los Angeles, an experimental theater group, by having actor friends from either his college softball team. He besides took little arethe inside films, by owning a breakthrough section when pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh in the 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham. On the placed of that moving picture he began the relationship sustaining fellow actor Sarandon that continues to the present day.

He received critical plaudit for his starring role as an unmoral film executive in the 1992 film The Player. His directorial & screenwriting debut was 1992's Bob Roberts, a mockumentary about a populist right-wing senatorial candidate. Robbins so starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption based on Stephen King's short story.

A select few fans agree that his crowning accomplishment was a scene inside Fraternity Vacation (1985) where, in the role of fraternity fleshly "Mother," Robbins slapped the pole around the healthy of rage all over the purloined car.

Since that period he has written, produced, & directed many films by having hard however subtle political content, like a critically-acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead Man Walking in 1995, based on a book by Helen Prejean, which earned him a directorial Oscar nomination, and 1999's Depression-era musical Cradle Will Rock. Robbins besides continues to work around mainstream Hollywood thrillers rather Arlington Road (1999) and Antitrust (2001), & to work inside and direct Actors' Gang theater productions.

Robbins sleep in New York City with Sarandon and their trey toddlers. He occurs as large voice for anti-globalization, and vocally opposing a 2003 invasion of Iraq. Within 2003 a 15th-anniversary celebration of Bull Durham at the National Baseball Hall of Fame was cancelled due to controversy on top his & Sarandon's public anti-war stance. Costner defended Robbins & Sarandan locution, "I think Tim and Susan's courage is the type of courage that makes our democracy work...Pulling back this invite is against the whole principle about what we fight for and profess to be about. To read more see the theage.com article below.

He won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River'' (2003). His most recent appearances include a paramedic who becomes a menace to Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) and will also appear in Jon Favreau's Zathura.

Ironically enough, only minutes after Robbins and Susan Sarandon flashed the peace symbol at the Academy Awards ceremony, Robbins threatened to punch out The Washington Post journalist Lloyd Grove. Robbins, who has spent the past five years claiming that his free speech rights were being violated, objected to the fact that journalist Grove, while on assignment for The Washington Post, had interviewed Ms. Sarandon's mother Lenora Tomalin, a conservative Republican. Tomalin happily went on record speculating that her daughter Sarandon and Robbins had politically "brainwashed" her grandson Jack Henry. In his article Grove quotes Robbins as saying "If you ever write just about our personal once again, We may [bleeping] locate we & I personally may [bleeping] injured that you." Source: Grove, Lloyd (Mar.25, 2003)."Nighttime of the Livid Celeb". Washington Post., Page C01

Since May 2005 he's been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

Selected filmography

Fraternity Vacation (1985) Top Gun (1986) Five Corners (1988) Bull Durham (1988) Tapeheads (1988) Erik the Viking (1989) ''Jacob's Ladder (1990) The Player (1992) Bob Roberts writer, director (1992) The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) I.Q. (1994) Dead Man Walking writer, director (1995) Nothing to Lose (1997) Arlington Road (1999) Cradle Will Rock writer, director (1999) Mission to Mars (2000) High Fidelity (2000) Antitrust (2001) Human Nature (2001) Code 46 (2003) Mystic River (2003) War of the Worlds (2005) The Secret Life of Words'' (2005)