Academy Award-winning actor and director Robert Redford , one of the biggest movie stars to ever grace the screen and whose startlingly magnetic charisma in such films as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Way We Were" and "The Sting" made him an icon, has died. He was 89.

Cindi Berger, CEO of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK, confirmed Redford's death to CBS News in a statement. Berger said he died Tuesday at his home in the mountains of Utah surrounded by those he loved. She didn't provide details about the circumstances surrounding his death.

Barbra Streisand , who starred alongside Redford in the 1973 romantic drama "The Way We Were," said the Hollywood legend was "one of the finest actors ever" in a tribute on social media.

"Every day on the set of The Way We W

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