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Quentin Tarantino
5 FOLLOWERS • 61 CREDITS • MAR 27, 1963 • 61
Biography
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films have earned him a variety of Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d'Or Awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy Awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time.
Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York. Tarantino's mother allowed him to quit school at age 17, to attend an acting class full time. Tarantino gave up acting while attending the acting school, saying that he admired directors more than actors. Tarantino also worked in a video rental store before becoming a filmmaker, paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent, and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career.
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Known For
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Saturday Night Live
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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The Oscars
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Real Time with Bill Maher
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Graham Norton Show
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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The Golden Girls
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The Jay Leno Show
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Alias
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Lip Sync Battle
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Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
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Super Pumped
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All-American Girl
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
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Inglourious Basterds
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Eli Roth's History of Horror
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Django Unchained
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Jackie Brown
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Planet Terror
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The Hateful Eight
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Pulp Fiction
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Death Proof
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Halftime
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Reservoir Dogs
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Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
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From Dusk Till Dawn
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My Best Friend's Birthday
Production Credits
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Natural Born Killers
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Inglourious Basterds
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Sin City
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Death Proof
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Thanksgiving
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From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
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Planet Terror
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Django Unchained
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
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The Man with the Iron Fists
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Hostel
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My Best Friend's Birthday
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
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Reservoir Dogs
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
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From Dusk Till Dawn
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The Kissing Booth 2
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ER
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
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From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
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Pulp Fiction
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
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True Romance
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
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Jackie Brown
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The Hateful Eight
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Baby Driver
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