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Rob Marshall

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Rob Marshall

Born October 17, 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA11 films

Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture winner Chicago.

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Marshall was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Award-wining TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162,242,962 at the worldwide box office. In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush, which is set to open on May 20, 2011.

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Memoirs of a Geisha posterFirst watchMemoirs of a Geisha20057.6In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.View film

Essential films

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides poster6.6Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides2011Chicago poster7.1Chicago2002Mary Poppins Returns poster6.5Mary Poppins Returns2018The Little Mermaid poster6.2The Little Mermaid2023Into the Woods poster5.8Into the Woods2014Nine poster5.5Nine2009Annie poster6.5Annie1999

Filmography

11 films as director
  1. TBAGuys and DollsDirector
  2. 2023The Little MermaidDirector
  3. 2018Mary Poppins ReturnsDirector
  4. 2014Into the WoodsDirector
  5. 2014Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and CrewDirector
  6. 2011Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesDirector
  7. 2009NineDirector
  8. 2006Tony Bennett: An American ClassicDirector
  9. 2005Memoirs of a GeishaDirector
  10. 2002ChicagoDirector
  11. 1999AnnieDirector