Full Name
- Robin McLaurin Williams
Fact sheet
- Voted "least likely to succeed" in high-school.
- Was roommates with Christopher Reeve at New York's Juilliard School. The two remained close friends and, during the final years of Reeve's life, Williams helped pay his medical bills.
- Recognised early on his skill for improvisation; writers of Mork & Mindy left gaps in the scripts for him to just wing it.
- Half brother Todd appeared in Mrs. Doubtfire as the bartender; he was credited as "Dr. Toad".
- Postponed his one-man show, Weapons of Self-Destruction, to undergo heart surgery in March 2009.
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