Robert Duvall Celebrates 90th Birthday with Wife Luciana Pedraza
When asked what he loved the “most” about turning 90, Duvall joked he wasn’t that fond of aging but enjoyed being able to spend time with Pedraza.
“She takes care of me, and I have good friends, and I try to work out and keep in some kind of shape,” he gushed in a July 2021 interview.
The two first met in Buenos Aires in March 1996 when Pedraza approached Duvall to invite him to her friend’s party.
“My friends said, ‘Go invite him to our party. He loves the tango.’ So we walked around the block and talked. I said, ‘Mr. Duvall, here’s my card. If you wanna come to this party, my friends would love to have you,’ with no expectations. And he came,” she recalled in a March 2003 interview.
Pedraza announced her husband’s death in a February 16 Facebook post.
“Yesterday, we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort,” she wrote. “To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything.”
