Sam Mendes
Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. 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 directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
| Full name at birth | Samuel Alexander Mendes
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| Claim to fame | American Beauty
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| Date of birth | 1 August 1965
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| Place of birth | Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
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| Age | 57
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| Occupation | Director, Producer
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| Height | 5' 10" (178 cm)
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS
| Net worth | $30,000,000 USD
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| High school | Magdalen College School, Oxford, England
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| University | Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
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| Talent agency | Independent Talent Group Ltd
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- Ranked #15 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
- Has a home in Cotswolds, England.
- He was awarded the 1989 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Most Promising Newcomer as Director of Minerva Studio in Chichester, England.
- Ranked #91 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List.
- Sam married English actress Kate Winslet in the West Indies in May 2003.
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