The legendary actor and comedian Bill Murray has become one of the most thought after artists in America. Ironically insincere and yet somehow softhearted, Murray is the best-known star to emerge from the cast of Saturday Night Live. He starred in two of the top-grossing comedies: Ghostbusters (1984) and Groundhog Day (1993). He also took more serious roles, playing a mobster in Mad Dog and Glory (1993, with Robert DeNiro) and an eccentric businessman in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore (1998), for which he won Best Supporting Actor from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his seriocomic role as a jet-lagged movie star in Tokyo in Sofia Coppola’s film Lost in Translation (2003). Recognized not only as an actor, but also as a humorist, Bill Murray was awarded The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in October 2016.
