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Quentin Tarantino Bio
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. His biological father, Tony Tarantino, was an Italian actor/musician while his mother, Connie McHugh, is half-Irish and half-Cherokee. McHugh gave birth to Tarantino when she was only sixteen years old and shortly after married musician Curt Zastoupil. Tarantino and Zastoupil would grow very close throughout his life.
In 1971, Tarantino and the family moved to the Los Angeles area where he attended Hawthorne Christian School. He also attended Narbonne High School, but by the age of sixteen dropped out in order to pursue his budding love of film. He studied acting at the James Best Theater Company, and by the age of twenty-two had written his first script, Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit. The work never saw production.
By 1984, Tarantino was quenching his thirst for film by working at the Video Archives. It was there he met and befriended Roger Avary, with whom Tarantino would later co-write several of his scripts. The two would even eventually accept their Oscars together. Tarantino continued his study of acting at the Allen Garfield’s Actors’ Shelter, but increasingly focused on film directing and screenwriting.
In 1987, Tarantino wrote and directed his first film, a short entitled My Best Friend’s Birthday. (It also starred then acting coach Allen Garfield.) Taking three years to film, mostly on the weekends, Tarantino is now vocal about his embarrassment over the work. However, by the early 1990s Tarantino was creating work more typically associated with his distinctive style. He wrote True Romance (released 1993), which was eventually directed by Tony Scott and acted by an all-star cast including Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, and Samuel L. Jackson.
1992 would prove to be Tarantino’s breakout year—the year he was forever initiated into independent film stardom. He wrote the script for Reservoir Dogs and received funding help from cult director Monte Hellman. Harvey Keitel also read the script and immediately added funding after taking a role in the film. Reservoir Dogs debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews. Tarantino became an overnight success, especially in England and cult film circles. Following on this success, Tarantino was approached to direct such up and coming blockbusters as Speed and Men in Black. Tarantino passed, opting to spend time in Amsterdam while he finished his new script for Pulp Fiction. When this film premiered at Cannes it won the coveted Palme D’Or, a rough independent equivalent to the Academy Award for Best Picture. Pulp Fiction did in fact go on to the Oscars, nominated for Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman), Best Director, and Best Film. Pulp Fiction walked away with only one win for Best Original Screenplay, which Tarantino and Avary accepted together.
Tarantino went on to direct one segment of Four Rooms (1995) with good friend Robert Rodriguez, but the project was widely panned. He then wrote the crime-thriller turned vampire-B flick From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), directed by Rodriguez. Despite a star studded cast including Harvey Keitel, Salma Hayek, George Clooney and Tarantino himself, the film was only mildly received. Tarantino’s next project was writing and directing Jackie Brown (1997). Inspired by the Elmore Leonard novel and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton, both the film itself and individual performances were acknowledged by several film festivals.
For several years, Tarantino took a hiatus from filmmaking. His next project would not arrive until 2003. A bloody and brutal tale of revenge, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 was released and followed the next year by the conclusion Kill Bill: Vol. 2. Both were criticized for their casual and excessive gore, but fans of Tarantino were not disappointed. In 2005, he guest directed a segment in Rodriguez’s neo-noir film Sin City.
Tarantino then turned to television. He directed a two-part episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and one episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Currently, Tarantino is filming Grind House, and the film Inglorious Bastards has been announced.
Tarantino has never been married, but he has been romantically linked with Mira Sorvino and comedian Margaret Cho. Most recently, he is said to be dating Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola.
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Quentin Tarantino - was a guest on Saturday Night Live |
Quentin Tarantino - it was said that he dumped Mira Sorvino for Ali Larter
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Quentin Tarantino - Harvey Keitel starred in 'Reservoir Dogs.'
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Quentin Tarantino - Daisy Fuentes appeared in the 1996 film 'Curdled.'
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Quentin Tarantino - James Gandolfini starred in 'True Romance.' |
Quentin Tarantino - Uma Thurman lip-synched to one of Neil Diamond 's songs in Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction.'
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Quentin Tarantino - Had a relationship with Margaret Cho . |
Quentin Tarantino - Chris Penn starred in 'Reservoir Dogs.'
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