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Rob Marshall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture winner Chicago. Marshall was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Award-wining TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162,242,962 at the worldwide box office. In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush, which is set to open on May 20, 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Marshall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Oct 17, 1960 In Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
9
First Appeared:
In the movie Portrait of a Choreographer 2007-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie The Mutation 2021-08-04
Known For
Poster of ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Filmography
Movie The Mutation Policeman 2021-08-04
Movie River Jamie Banks 2021-07-13
Movie Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic Self 2018-11-22
Movie La La La Self - Director 2018-11-25
Movie Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation Self 2012-07-17
Movie Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History Self 2008-10-14
Movie Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Self (archive footage) 2008-01-18
Movie Portrait of a Choreographer Self 2007-01-01
Movie ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway Self 2007-04-19