Richard Dreyfus is a highly acclaimed American actor who is known for playing a variety of roles in his five decades and on-going career. Coming from a non-media family, Dreyfus tryst with acting started early. He started acting at the age of fifteen and made his debut on big screen when he was 20. Unlike most of the actors who go through a troubled early phase of discovering their own talent, Dreyfus had a strong beginning. In 1973, he bagged a Golden Globe nomination for his role in the film, ‘American Grafitti’. From then on, there was no looking back for this great actor who gave one blockbuster after the other, with films like, ‘Jaws’, ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, and ‘The Goodbye Girl’ for which won an Oscar , Golden Globe and BAFTA. Dreyfus drug addiction primarily hampered his career during the first half of the 1980s but he bounced back from the same in style. In 1986, he made a comeback with ‘Down and Out in Beverly Hills’. Since then, he has been part of several interesting projects in films, television, and theatre. He jumped to fame once again with ‘Mr Holland’s Opus’ in 1995. Recently, Dreyfus was seen in the teleseries ‘Madoff’.