Robin Williams is an American actor and comedian who won an Academy Award for his role in Good Will Hunting at the 70th Academy Awards in March 1998, among four nominations for the prestigious award. He has also won six Golden Globe Awards out of twelve nominations, the first in 1979 for Mork & Mundy, and the last of which was the Cecil B. DeMille Honorary Award in 2005. He has won two Emmy Awards and five Grammy Awards. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He became famous after the Mork & Mundy series, which he presented for four seasons between 1978 and 1982. Robin suffered from depression and addiction to alcohol and drugs for a long period of his acting career. In 2014, he was found dead in his home in California, having committed suicide by strangulation. After his death, his wife announced that Robin had been suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease. Reports indicated that he suffered from another disease called Lewy body disease, which causes symptoms most notably severe depression and cerebral hallucinations. Robin Williams was born to an Irish-English father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, who worked as an executive at Ford, while his mother Laurie was a model and of French descent. Robin Williams grew up in Marin County, California, where he attended Redwood High School and then in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he attended Detroit Morning College, a private college from which many celebrities graduated, including Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft. In 1973, Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve were selected from among two thousand students to enter the Juilliard School of the Arts, one of the most important schools for the arts in the world. The two took many classes together there and formed a deep friendship between the two that lasted until the death of actor Christopher Reeve in 2004. While Robin Williams' comedic style did not please all of his teachers, his dramatic acting was appreciated by everyone. He began as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco clubs and then joined NBC Studios for his first major role in a TV series as The Visitor from Outer Space. In this series, Robin Williams was given the freedom to improvise most of his dialogue, and he performed the role in a physically and verbally brilliant manner. He then played many major and minor television roles in series such as and At the same time, and during the seventies and eighties he continued to perform his stand-up comedy, which achieved great fame, the last of which was in . Robin Williams' fame is due to the cinema that overshadows most of his artistic work. His first film role was in the film 1970. He then starred in a number of films that were not very successful until he played the role of a war correspondent in the film, for which he was nominated for an Oscar in 1970 as Best Leading Actor. His successes continued in the films 1970 and 1970, for which he was also nominated for an Oscar in 1970 as Best Leading Actor, but he was not lucky, until he played the role of a psychiatrist in the film 1970 and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a Golden Globe for the film 1970. He presented the film Jumanji in 1995. Robin Williams also performed voices for a number of animated films that achieved great success, such as 1970 and 1970. Williams began his career in stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1970s. He gave his first performance at the comedy club Holy City Zoo in San Francisco, where he worked his way up from his first position as a bartender. San Francisco was the epicenter of the rock, hippie, drug, and sexual revolution of the 1960s, while Williams helped lead the "comedy renaissance" of the 1970s, according to critic Gerald Nickman. Williams said he discovered "drugs and happiness" during this period, and added that he witnessed "the most prominent intellectuals of the day become nobodys." Williams moved to Los Angeles, where he continued to perform stand-up comedy at clubs, including The Comedy Store. In 1977, television producer George Schlatter saw Williams perform at the club and asked him to host his show, Laugh In. The show aired in late 1977 and was Williams's television debut. Williams performed another show at the Improv that year, for HBO. Laugh In launched Williams' television career, although the revival failed. Williams continued to perform stand-up comedy at comedy clubs such as the Roxy Club, in order to keep his improvisational skills sharp. Williams had a notable performance in England at The Fighting Cocks Music Hall. Williams won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for his 1979 recording of his live show... What a Concept at the Copacabana Nightclub in New York City. Some of his subsequent tours as a television and film star included An Evening with Robin Williams, Robin Williams: At the Metropolitan Opera House, and Robin Williams: Live from Broadway. His latter show broke several long-standing records, with some tickets selling out within 30 minutes of release. Williams released the album A Night at the Metropolitan Opera in 1986. In August 2008, Williams announced a new 26-city tour after a six-year hiatus, titled Weapons of Mass Psychological Destruction. The tour began in late September 2009 and ended in New York on December 3 of the same year, and was the subject of an HBO special on December 8, 2009. After a long struggle with alcoholism, financial problems, and severe depression that took him to rehab centers several times, and suffering from the onset of Parkinson's disease, and also suffering from a type of dementia called Lewy body disease, in addition to his frustration over the cancellation of his series The Crazy Ones, Robin decided in the early hours of Monday morning, August 11, 2014, to end his life by committing suicide. He first cut the artery in his left wrist at the wrist with a small pocket knife, but his operation was unsuccessful, so he resorted to hanging himself with a pants belt that he wrapped around his neck, his wrist stained with blood from his first failed attempt. American and international media outlets covered the details of the suicide operation based on the police report and witness testimony, stating that his failure The first suicide forced him to use a belt that he wrapped around his neck and secured to his shoulder, and hung the rest on the corner of the closet door frame, then let go of the part attached to his shoulder so that it would hang directly and lead to his immediate suffocation and death, as one of his assistants noticed his delay in leaving, so he knocked on the door of the room without him answering, so he opened the door and found him hanging in his clothes and almost sitting on the floor at about twelve noon on Monday, with blood stains from the knife next to him, and this is the position found by those who came in the ambulance that was called, and immediately after that a police patrol came to inspect what had happened, specifically searching for a farewell letter he had written explaining the reasons for his suicide, but they found nothing in the house but the body. Here is a list of some of the most important awards won by Robin Williams: