Quentin Tarantino Add to My Celebs Age 49 Birthday Mar. 27th, 1963 Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Height 6' 1"

Quentin Tarantino's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Alias McKenas Cole Iconoclasts Quentin Tar… CenterStage Quentin Tar…

Main Movie Roles 2007 - Death Proof 2007 - Planet Terror 2007 - Diary of the Dead 2007 - Manufacturing Dissent 2007 - Grindhouse 2004 - Kill Bill Vol. 2 2004 - The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing 2000 - Little Nicky 1997 - Full Tilt Boogie 1997 - Jackie Brown 1996 - From Dusk Till Dawn 1995 - Four Rooms 1995 - Desperado 1994 - Pulp Fiction 1994 - Sleep With Me 1992 - Reservoir Dogs 1987 - My Best Friend's Birthday

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

In January of 1992, Reservoir Dogs (1992) appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, by first-time writer-director Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend immediately. Two years later, he followed up Dogs success with Pulp Fiction (1994) which premiered at the Cannes film festival, winning the coveted Palme D'Or Award. At the 1995 Academy Awards, it was nominated for the best picture, best director and best original screenplay. Tarantino and writing partner Roger Avary came away with the award only for best original screenplay. In 1995, Tarantino directed one fourth of the anthology Four Rooms (1995) with friends and fellow auteurs Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez (I) and Allison Anders. The film opened on December 25th in the United States to very weak reviews. Tarantino's next film was From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), a vampire/crime story which he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically.


TRIVIA:

• After his parents divorced, his mother married Curtis Zastoupil.
• His mother was only 16 when she gave birth to him.
• Is of Italian, Irish and Cherokee descent.
• Dropped out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California, at the age of sixteen to pursue film making.
• (30 July 1997) Together with 'Lawrence Bender' (qv) founded record company called A Band Apart Records. It will focus on film soundtracks and its releases will be distributed through Maverick Records, owned by 'Madonna' (qv).
• Frequently casts 'Michael Bowen (I)' (qv).
• Six of his movies are mentioned in FHM's (DK) 100 Best Male Movies Ever (7 October 2004 issue): _True Romance (1993)_ (qv) at #75, _From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)_ (qv) at #73, _Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)_ (qv) at #26, _Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)_ (qv) at #25, _Reservoir Dogs (1992)_ (qv) at #11, and _Pulp Fiction (1994)_ (qv) at #1.
• Was at one point in his life considering to become a novelist. He said that he tried writing two chapters of a novel about his experiences working at the Video Archives in Hermosa Beach. As can be immediately seen, novelistic narrative techniques bear a strong influence on his distinct filmmaking style.

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