Biography for
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Date of Birth

3 August 1941, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman

Height

6' 3" (1.91 m)

Mini Biography

Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York City. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy as well as Harvard, and then went on to study Buddhism and Tibet as a personal pupil of the The Dalai Lama for nearly 30 years. Robert A. F. Thurman is the father of Uma Thurman and Dechen Thurman and he is also a former Tibetan Buddhist monk. In 1987, Mr. Thurman and Richard Gere founded New York City's Tibet House, a nonprofit institution devoted to preserving the living culture of Tibet. Robert Thurman has written extensively and lectured all over the world. He can be seen and heard in the documentary film Free Tibet (1998) which was produced by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Robb Hand

Spouse

Nena Thurman	(1967 - present) 4 children
Christophe de Menil	(1959 - 1966) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Father of (with Christophe de Menil) Taya Thurman (b. 1960), and (with Nena Thurman) Uma Thurman (b. 1970), Ganden Thurman (b. 1968), Dechen Thurman (b. 1973), and Mipam Thurman (b. 1978).

His mother, Elizabeth Dean Farrar, was a stage actress. His father, Beverly Reid Thurman Jr., was an editor for A.P. and a U.N. translator (French to English).

College professor of actor Jake Gyllenhaal while he was enrolled at Columbia University.

Former father-in-law of Ethan Hawke and Gary Oldman.