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Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Jerome Tarantino ( / ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ /; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. His films are characterized by stylized violence, extended dialogue including a pervasive use of profanity, and references to popular culture .
- 1987–present
- Quentin Jerome Tarantino, March 27, 1963 (age 60), Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Apr 19, 2024 · Everything we know about Quentin Tarantino's 10th and final film. The cast of Pulp Fiction gathered earlier this week to celebrate three decades since the first screening of Quentin Tarantino's ...
Mar 23, 2024 · Quentin Tarantino, American director and screenwriter whose films, notably Pulp Fiction (1994), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained (2012), are famous for their stylized violence, razor-sharp dialogue, and fascination with film and pop culture. Read more about Tarantino’s life and career.
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Quentin Tarantino. Writer: Reservoir Dogs. Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee.
- Writer, Producer, Actor
- March 27, 1963
- 3 min
- Who Is Quentin Tarantino?
- Early Life
- Early Films: 'True Romance,' 'Natural Born Killers,' 'Reservoir Dogs'
- Oscar Win For 'Pulp Fiction'
- 'Natural Born Killers,' 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' 'Jackie Brown'
- Broadway's 'Wait Until Dark'
- 'Kill Bill'
- 'Grindhouse,' 'Inglorious Basterds'
- Second Oscar Win For 'Django Unchained'
- 'The Hateful Eight,' 'Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood'
Born in Tennessee in 1963, Quentin Tarantino moved to California at age 4. His love of movies led to a job in a video store, during which time he wrote the scripts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers. Tarantino's directorial debut came with 1992's Reservoir Dogs, but he received widespread critical and commercial acclaim with Pulp Fiction (19...
Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the only child of Connie McHugh, who is part Cherokee and part Irish, and actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before Quentin was born. Moving to California at the age of 4, Tarantino developed his love for movies at an early age. One of his earliest memories is of hi...
During his time at Video Archives, Tarantino worked on several screenplays, including True Romance and Natural Born Killers. He also landed a guest spot on the popular sitcom The Golden Girls, playing an Elvis Presley impersonator. In 1990, Tarantino left Video Archives to work for Cinetel, a production company. Through one of the producers there, ...
With Pulp Fiction (1994), Tarantino created an unpredictable thrill ride filled with violence and pop culture references. In one story in the film, John Travolta played Vincent Vega, a hit man assigned to look after his boss's girlfriend (Uma Thurman)—a role that helped resuscitate his then-flagging career. Another part examined Vega's partnership ...
Known for his temper, Tarantino got into a public disagreement with director Oliver Stone. Stone directed Natural Born Killers (1994) and rewrote parts of Tarantino's script. Enraged by the rewrites, Tarantino fought to have his name taken off the film. Stone told the press that the changes were an improvement over the original, which had poor char...
After Jackie Brown, Tarantino took a break from filmmaking. He starred on Broadway in 1998 in a revival of Wait Until Dark with Marisa Tomei. It was a bold move for him, as he had never done professional stage work before. Tarantino played a thug who terrorizes a blind woman (played by Tomei), and the critics were less than impressed. The reviews f...
Instead of tackling his war epic, Tarantino jumped into the world of martial arts films. The idea for Kill Bill was formed by Tarantino and Thurman in a bar during the filming of Pulp Fiction. In 2000, Thurman ran into Tarantino at an Oscar party and asked whether he had made any progress with the idea. He promised her that he would write the scrip...
After Kill Bill, Tarantino dabbled in television. He wrote and directed an episode of the drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2005, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. Tarantino then worked with Robert Rodriguez again. The two filmmakers each made their own gory and graphic ode to the B-movies, which were shown together as a double-...
Tarantino went on to meet with both commercial and critical success with his action Western Django Unchained, released in late 2012. In the film, Jamie Foxx starred as Django, a freed slave who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to search for his wife, played by Kerry Washington. Django then has to face off against his wife's plantatio...
In 2015, the director revisited the Western theme for The Hateful Eight. Featuring such frequent Tarantino collaborators as Jackson, Roth and Madsen, the film snagged Golden Globe nominations in several categories. Four years later, Tarantino delivered his follow-up effort, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. Co-starring DiCaprio and Pitt, the film f...
Quentin Tarantino. Writer: Reservoir Dogs. Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old. In January of 1992, first-time writer-director Tarantino's ...
Quentin Jerome Tarantino ( / ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ /; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. His films are characterized by stylized violence, extended dialogue including a pervasive use of profanity, and references to popular culture. Quick Facts Born, Occupations ... Tarantino began his career as an ...
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