Actor: Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar, an Army helicopter pilot and one of the most significant country songwriters of his generation before acting.

A Star Is Born won him a Golden Globe, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and Heaven’s Gate gave him work with Peckinpah and Cimino. Blade gave him Whistler across three films and introduced him to an audience that had no idea about Me and Bobby McGee.