Tarantino at the London premiere for Inglourious Basterds, July 2009
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| Birth name | Quentin Jerome Tarantino | | Birth date | March 27, 1963(age 53) | | Place of birth | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. | | Occupation | Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor | | Years active | 1988 � present | | Notable works | Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs | | Influenced by | Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Luc Godard, Elmore Leonard, Samuel Fuller, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Jean-Pierre Melville, Sergio Corbucci, |
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino (c-enpronˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003, 2004), Death Proof (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009), and the upcoming feature Django Unchained (2012). He has earned an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and the Palme d'Or, as well as Emmy and Grammy nominations. His movies are generally characterized by stylistic influences from grindhouse, kung fu, and spaghetti western films. Tarantino also frequently collaborates with his friend and fellow filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
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