Mary Harron

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Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953 in Canada ) is a Canadian director and screenwriter . Her best-known film to date is American Psycho, filmed with Christian Bale in the title role .

life and career

After Harron first grew up in Canada, her family moved to the UK when she was thirteen. There she attended St Anne's College at the University of Oxford in the 1970s . But then she moved to New York and became part of the punk scene there. She worked as a music journalist and was the first to do an interview with the Sex Pistols for an American magazine. In addition to music, Harron wrote about acting, she reported back in Great Britain, among others for the Observer , the Guardian and the New Statesman .

After she moved back to New York in the 1990s and worked there as a producer of a program series at PBS , she got the opportunity to implement a long-planned project about Valerie Solanas . The woman who assassinated Andy Warhol in June 1968 was played by Lili Taylor in Harron's 1997 film . In the late 1990s, Harron took on a very controversial subject. She filmed the scandalous novel American Psycho , which was published in 1991 as the third novel by Bret Easton Ellis in the United States , but was indexed in Germany until 2001 due to its drastic depictions of sadistic and misogynistic violence . The film, also considered controversial, was a financial success and was also received positively by the critics.

Harron has worked primarily in television productions since the 2000s, making her third feature film in 2005 and her fourth so far in 2011. She lives in New York with her husband John C. Walsh and two daughters.

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personal data
SURNAME Harron, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian director
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Canada