Few would describe Robert Redford as one of the ordinary people.

Rather, he was a true Hollywood legend , whose leading-man performances and Oscar-winning directing will live on following his death on Sept. 16 at the age of 89 .

But it was his wife Sibylle Szaggars ' ability to look beyond Redford's fame and see him for who he truly was that led them to form a deep connection.

Their love story began in the late '90s when the German-born artist ran into the actor while on a ski trip with friends at his Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah, the same spot he founded the non-profit Sundance Institute to provide support for independent filmmakers.

"I knew of him," Szaggars recalled during a 2014 discussion for the National YoungArts Foundation . "I had seen Jeremiah Johnson ,

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