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Sam Mendes‌

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Sam Mendes

Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Sam Mendes

Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1965-08-01

Popularity

star11.9

Biography

Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List. That same year, he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University, and began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, which became a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night and The Ferryman and for his work on Broadway he has earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for his work on The Ferryman in 2019, and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the crime film Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), the drama Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movie Credits

Being James Bond

Being James Bond‌
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calendar 2021

Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'

Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'‌
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calendar 2000

Who Needs Sleep?

Who Needs Sleep?‌
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calendar 2006

NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage

NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage‌
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calendar 2014

Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes

Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes‌
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calendar 2022

The Sound of 007

The Sound of 007‌
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calendar 2022

Everything or Nothing

Everything or Nothing‌
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calendar 2012

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage‌
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calendar 2016

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing‌
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calendar 2017

Allied Forces: Making 1917

Allied Forces: Making 1917‌
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calendar 2020

American Beauty: Look Closer...

American Beauty: Look Closer...‌
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calendar 2000

A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall‌
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calendar 2010

Tv Credits

Performance

Performance‌
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calendar 1991

Toast of London

Toast of London‌
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calendar 2013

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Late Show with James Corden‌
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calendar 2015

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg‌
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calendar 2022

The Oscars

The Oscars‌
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calendar 1953

Unscripted

Unscripted‌
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calendar 2005