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Quentin Tarantino
Age: 46
Height: 6' 1"
Birth Place: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Born: Mar. 27th, 1963
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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:
- Ranked #81 on Premiere's 2004 annual Power 100 List. He was unranked in 2003.
- Is of Italian, Irish and Cherokee descent.
- After his parents divorced, his mother married Curtis Zastoupil.
- Has two sisters and one brother: Tanya Marie Tarantino (b. Pasadena, California, 4 Oct 1964), Ronnajean Tarantino (b. Arizona, Phoenix, 22 June 1969) and Edward James Tarantino (b. Simi Valley, California, Simi Valley, 3 Oct 1974).
- His father, actor/musician 'Tony Tarantino' (qv) is of Italian descent, and his mother, Connie McHugh, is half-Irish and half-Cherokee.
- In the 2008 Empire Magazine poll of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, Tarantino listed his favorite films as: 1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), ('Sergio Leone (I)' (qv)), 2. _Rio Bravo (1959)_ (qv), ('Howard Hawks' (qv)), 3. _Blow Out (1981)_ (qv), ('Brian De Palma' (qv)), 4. _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv), ('Martin Scorsese' (qv)), 5. _His Girl Friday (1940)_ (qv), 'Howard Hawks' (qv)), 6. 5 Fingers of Death / King Boxer (1972), ('Chang-hwa Jeong' (qv)), 7. Pandora's Box (1929), ('Georg Wilhelm Pabst'), 8. _Carrie (1976)_ (qv), ('Brian De Palma' (qv)), 9. _Unfaithfully Yours (1948)_ (qv), ('Preston Sturges' (qv)), 10. _Five Graves to Cairo (1943)_ (qv), ('Billy Wilder' (qv)), 11. _Jaws (1975)_ (qv), ('Steven Spielberg' (qv)). Choices #2, 3 and 4 are marked as "interchangeable".
- He has called 'Uma Thurman' (qv) his muse.
- Tarantino claims that 'James Best (I)' (qv) taught him how to act.
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