Robert Redford died on Sept. 16 at 89 years old at his home in the mountains outside Provo, Utah. The news of Redford’s death came from publicist Cindi Berger, who released a public statement confirming his passing. Berger told the New York Times in a separate statement that Redford died in his sleep.
While Redford was a famous actor celebrated for his work in blockbuster films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, he was also a family man.
Redford was married twice. His first marriage was to historian and activist Lola Van Wagenen, who he was married to from 1958 to 1985, and then, he married German artist Sibylle Szaggars in 2009. He and Szaggars were married up until his death.
About Robert Redford’s Grandchildren
Redford had four children with Lola Van Wagenen, and sadly, two of those four children passed away before he did. His children include the late Scott Anthony Redford and the late David James “Jamie” Redford, as well as Shauna Redford and Amy Hart Redford.
Redford also has seven grandchildren with Wagenen. According to the Today Show, many of Redford’s grandchildren work in the movie industry. The Today Show also mentions that some of the names Redford’s grandchildren have called him include “Bo-Pa” or “Ba-Poo.”
“The word grandfather is weird,” Redford told People magazine in 1998. “It feels like some old guy in a robe.”
As for Redford’s grandchildren, according to the Today Show, Shauna and her husband Eric Schlosser have two kids: Anna Michaela “Mica” Redford Schlosser, born in January 1991, and Conor James Schlosser, born on July 29, 1992. James and his wife Kyle have two kids: Dylan Larsen Redford, born in October 1991, and Lena Hart Redford, born in November 1995. Amy and her ex-husband Matt August have three children together: daughter Eden, born in 2008, and twin girls, born in 2010.
“Robert Redford passed away on Sept. 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” Redford’s publicist Cindi Berger, chairman and CEO of Rogers & Cowan PMK, said in a statement. “He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.”
Redford’s most celebrated role was as the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman.
“I was being put up for Butch Cassidy because I’d done the comedy. But that part didn’t interest me,” Redford told the publication Collider in 2019. “What interested me was the Sundance Kid, because I could relate to that based on my own experience and particularly my own childhood and feeling like an outlaw most of my life.”
We send our condolences to Redford’s family and friends during this difficult time.
