Legendary actor Robert Redford passed away on Monday morning, reportedly dying in his sleep.
Redford was 89. The award-winning performer, director and committed environmentalist was at his Utah home with loved ones when it happened, according to his publicist Cindi Berger.
“Robert Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah–the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly,” Berger said in a statement to CNN. “The family requests privacy.”
Redford leaves behind a wife, Sibylle Szaggars, who he married in 2009, along with two children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Sadly, the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star was predeceased by two of his children, both of whom died under tragic, but different, circumstances.
“As a parent, you tend to blame yourself.”
Robert Redford
Redford and his first wife, Lola Van Wagenen, lost their first-born son Scott in 1960 and their son David James in October 2020.
Their daughters Shauna Jean and Amy are still alive.
Redford and his family were struck by SIDS
Scott Anthony Redford was born Sept. 1, 1959, the first child of Redford and Van Wagenen. At the time, Redford was only 23 and was just getting his acting career rolling.
Tragically, on Nov. 17, 1959, Scott Redford died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). For decades, Robert Redford declined to speak on the tragedy, but he did open up about it to the Denver Post in 2011.
“We were very young… We didn’t know anything about SIDS, so the only thing you think is that you’ve done something wrong,” Redford said, via Newsner.
Redford added that “as a parent, you tend to blame yourself. That creates a scar that probably never completely heals.”
Cancer took the life of James Redford
David James Redford, who was born on May 5, 1962 and went by James, followed in his father’s footsteps as a filmmaker and environmentalist.
He died on Oct. 16, 2020 at the age of 58 after a battle with bile duct cancer, leaving behind a wife and two children.
“The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a child,” Robert Redford said in a statement through Berger at the time. “Jamie was a loving son, husband and father. His legacy lives on through his children, art, filmmaking and devoted passion to conservation and the environment.”
