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After Williams' death by suicide, numerous reports detailed his lifelong experiences with depression, but his family was quick to make it clear that depression was not the main factor. "It was not depression that killed Robin," Williams' wife Susan told People. "Depression was one of let's call it 50 symptoms, and it was a small one." On the other hand, a Guardian article describes Susan telling ABC News that Williams had been sober for eight years before his death, but his chronic depression had resurfaced.

Whether clinically depressed or not, Robin was constantly worried about losing everything he had worked for.

"Dad's happiness was correlated very much to how he was doing career-wise," Williams' son Zak later reflected. "When there were films that would be less successful, he took it very personally. He took it as a personal attack. That was really hard for us to see."

Itzkoff writes in "Robin" that Williams worried "that his position in the comedy world could be usurped at any moment by a younger, up-and-coming star," with Jim Carrey mentioned as a specific source of anxiety.

Williams' friend, Monty Python vet Eric Idle, believed depression had some effect on Williams' final days. Speaking with Vanity Fair about a time when Williams was supposed to come to London to participate in an Idle project, he recalled, "He said he could come, but he didn't want to be onstage. I said, 'I totally get that.' Because he was suffering from severe depression."

An Academy Award-winning actor and multiple Grammy-winning performer unparalleled in the scope of his imagination, Robin Williams continued to add to his repertoire of indelible characters.

Williams, who began his career as a stand-up comedian, wrapped his 2009 critically acclaimed, sold-out, Weapons of Self Destruction comedy tour as one of the most successful stand-up comedy tours of the year. Over the course of the tour, Williams performed 90 shows in 65 cities in front of 300,000 fans across the country, as well as in London and Canada. Since its launch in September 2008, the tour grossed an astounding $40 million. Weapons was taped over two nights at Washington, DC's DAR Constitution Hall and premiered on December 6 on HBO as the network's highest rated stand-up comedy special of the year. Well known for his free-associative monologues and for pointing out life's absurdities through his astute social and political observations, Williams' previous comedy tour was in 2002. After a 16-year absence from the stand-up scene, he hit the road and toured America with a critically acclaimed one-man show that became the highest-grossing comedy tour ever and culminated in a final performance filmed by HBO and broadcast live from New York on July 14, 2002. The special, entitled Robin Williams: Live On Broadway, was nominated for five Emmy Awards. On the big screen, Williams was recently seen starring in the dark comedy, World's Greatest Dad. The film premiered to raves at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and Robin's performance has been touted as one of the best of his career. Bobcat Goldthwait directed the film, which was released by Magnolia Pictures at the end of August 2009.

In 1997, Williams received an Oscar and Screen Actors Guild award for his performance as 'Sean Maguire,' the therapist who counsels Matt Damon's math genius character in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting. The Academy previously nominated Williams for best actor in The Fisher King, Dead

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Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an Americanactor and stand-up comedian. He first became famous on the television showMork and Mindy. He starred in many movies.

On August 11, 2014, Williams was found dead in his home. His death was believed to have been a suicide by asphyxiation.

Early life

Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. His father Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987) worked for Ford Motor Company. His mother Laura McLaurin (née Smith, September 24, 1922 – September 4, 2001) was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His great-great-grandfather on his mother's side was Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams' ancestors were English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, and French.^[11