Robin Swicord

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Robin Swicord (* 1952 in Columbia , South Carolina ) is an American screenwriter and director .

Life

Robin Swicord is a busy screenwriter. She wrote the script for the Oscar-winning film Die Geisha (Memoirs of a Geisha) . She has also written other scripts for Matilda , Betty and Her Sisters , The Magical Sisters , The Perez Family and Shag .

She made her debut as a director in 1993 in the short film The Red Coat , for which she also wrote the screenplay. She gained international fame as a director for the 2007 film The Jane Austen Club based on the 2004 bestselling novel by Karen Joy Fowler , for which she also wrote the screenplay. Robin Swicord and colleague Eric Roth are responsible for the screenplay of the film The Strange Case of Benjamin Button , which was released in German cinemas in 2009 and which was directed by David Fincher based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald and which was nominated for 13 Oscars in 2009 is.

Robin Swicord, whose father served in the US Navy in Korea, studied English and theater at Florida State University in Tallahassee . She has been married to screenwriter Nicholas Kazan since 1984 . The marriage has two daughters, one of whom is the actress Zoe Kazan . Her father-in-law was the internationally known director Elia Kazan .

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SURNAME Swicord, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia