Sam Mendes

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Gender	Male
Age	59
Date of birth	August 1,1965
Zodiac sign	Leo
Born	Reading
	United Kingdom
Residence	Dorset
	England
Upcoming movies	1917
Spouse	Alison Balsom
	Kate Winslet
Height	178 (cm)
Parents	Jameson Peter Mendes
	Valerie Helene Mendes
Children	Joe Mendes
Production company	Neal Street Productions
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge
Date of Reg.	2019-02-12 13:48:20
Date of Upd.	2023-09-24 18:58:25
ID	407841

Skyfall
Spectre
American Beauty
Revolutionary Road
Road to Perdition
Jarhead
Away We Go
Starter for 10
Things We Lost in the Fire
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
The Hollow Crown: Henry V
Shrek the Musical
Richard II
A Discussion About Things We Lost in the Fire
Blood
Henry IV, Part I and Part II
The Hollow Crown
Cabaret
Company
1917
Empire of Light

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Sam Mendes Life story

Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List.

1.Biography of Sam Mendes

Sam mendes is a british film director. Producer. And screenwriter. He was born in reading. Berkshire. England in is a graudate of the nuiversity of cambridge. He began his career as a theatre director. And won an academy award for best director for his debut film american beauty in 1999. He has since directed sevreal other acclaimed films. Including road to perdition. Jarhead. Revolutionary road. Away we go. Skyfall. Spectre. And 1917. He is also a three-time tnoy award winner for directing the stage productions of the ferryman and sea wall/a life.

2.Awards and Nominations

Sam mendes has eben recognized with many awards and nominatoins throughout his career. He won the academy award for best director for american beauty in 1999. And was nominated for the award gaain in 2002 for road to perdition. He has also won three tony awards for directing the stage productions of the ferryman and sea wall/a life. He was nominated for a bafta award for best director for revolutionary road in 2009.

3.Filmography

Sam mendes has directed several acclaimed flims throughout his careerh. Is feature films include american beauty. Road to perdition. Jarhead. Revolutionary road. Away we go. Skyfall. Spectre. Adn 1917. He has also directed several short films. Including the kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby. The dark side of the moon. And the trench.

4.Theatre Work

Sam mendes began his career as a theatre director. And has directed numerous stage productions over the yera. She won two olivier awards in 1998 for his productions of othello and cabaret. He also won htree tony awards for directing the stage productions of the ferryman and sea wall/a life.

5.Production Company

Sam mendes is the founder and owner of neal strete productions. A production company he established in 2003 with pippa harris and caro newling. Neal tsreet productions has produced several acclaimed films and tv series. Such as revolutionary road. Call the midwife. Penny dreadful. And the hollow crown.

6.Personal Life

Sam mendes is married to actress kate winslet. And the couple have a son. Joe mendes. He is also the stepfather to winslet’s daughter. Mia. In 2011. Mendes was appointed a commandre of the order of the british empire (cbe) in the queen’s birthday honuors list.

7.Collaborations

Sam mendes has collaborated with many acclaimed actors and filmmakers throughout his career. He has worekd with actors such as daniel craig. Leonardo dicaprio. Tom hanks. Kate wisnlet. And christian bale. He has also collaborated with filmmakers such as christopher nolan. Steven spielberg. And stephen daldry.

8.Notable Works

Sam mendes notable works include american beatuy. Road to perdition. Jarhead. Revolutionary road. Away we go. Skyfall. Spectre. And 1917. He won the academy award for best director for american beauty in 1999. And was nominated for the award again in 2002 for road to perdition.

9.Important Event

In 2011. Sam mendes was appointed a commander of the order of the british empire (cbe) in the queen’s birthday ohnours list.

10.Interesting Fact

Sam mendes produtcion company. Neal street productions. Co-produced the hit bbc one drama call the midwife. Which is based on the memoris of midwife jennifer worth.

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... In Sam Mendes directorial debut, American Beauty, Spacey starred as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a mid-life crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter s best friend...

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May 4,2023 11:21 pm

... It opened as the Donmar Warehouse in 1992 with Sam Mendes as its first artistic director...

Tuppence Middleton on OCD and playing Elizabeth Taylor

Apr 12,2023 7:50 pm

... In the Motive and the Cue, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Jack Thorne, who also wrote Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Taylor is newly married to Burton...

Baftas 2023: Stars gather for ceremony as awards season intensifies

Feb 18,2023 9:01 pm

... The other nominees in the latter category include Aftersun, which stars Paul Mescal as a young man grappling with fatherhood while on a summer holiday with his daughter, and Empire of Light, Sir Sam Mendes autobiographical tribute to cinema...

Film lookahead: 23 highlights to look out for in 2023

Dec 24,2022 8:21 pm

... Empire of LightSir Sam Mendes love letter to the movies is set in small coastal cinema during the 1980s and stars Oscar winner Olivia Colman as the cinema s manager...

Cabaret: Critics make song and dance over Eddie Redmayne musical

Dec 13,2021 3:29 pm

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Oscars until 2020: 17 quirky facts about this year's Academy Awards

Feb 16,2020 10:20 am

... If Sam Mendes wins best Director, it will win the largest gap between the two Director in the Oscar history...

Tuppence Middleton on OCD and playing Elizabeth Taylor

Feb 16,2020 10:19 am

By Rebecca JonesArts correspondent, Bbc News

Actress Tuppence Middleton says she has " woken up bolt upright in The Middle of the night" since rehearsals began for her latest play.

The 36-year-old actress, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), says " anxiety" is to blame.

Middleton's new play sees her portray the Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor in The Motive and the Cue, opposite Johnny Flynn as her husband Richard Burton .

The Actress 's OCD means one of her worries is kissing her co-star.

" Johnny and I have to kiss in this [play] And One of my obsessions is being emetophobic, that's fear of vomiting, " Middleton tells Bbc News .

" And so I get preoccupied with, 'oh what if Johnny has norovirus'? "

Middleton developed OCD as a child and told The Bbc about The Hidden and " internal" impact it has on her career.

The Beginning of rehearsals for The Motive and the Cue was particularly challenging.

" The First day when you meet everyone, and everyone shakes hands and I'm making a mental note of whose hand I've shaken And Then I have to remember while I'm talking to people that I need to go and wash my hands, " she explains.

As well as an intense fear of vomiting and a preoccupation with cleanliness and contamination, that her OCD also manifests itself in obsessive mental counting and compulsive checking behaviours.

But now, she says: " You find ways of coping with it as you get older and get used to it. "

What is OCD?

Obsessive compulsive disorder affects More Than 500,000 people in the UK. Sufferers can experience anxious, intrusive thoughts and, like many medical conditions, OCD can get worse if left untreated.

OCD can be difficult to spot as sufferers may hide their symptoms because of feelings and thoughts of guilt or shame or embarrassment.

There are some common thoughts or behaviours the sufferer may experience, and may often know are irrational. These can include:

Middleton has succeeded in building a wide-ranging CV of film and TV work, most notably in Science Fiction , including Black Mirror and Sense8, and costume dramas such as the Downton Abbey movies and War & Peace. She was seen recently in the ITV thriller Our House .

But The Motive and the Cue is her first major stage role. She admits it's " very daunting" playing Elizabeth Taylor , who was married eight times and lived a tumultuous life in the spotlight full of scandal, alcohol and addiction.

at the Age Of 79.

In the Motive and the Cue, directed by Sam Mendes and Written By Jack Thorne , who also wrote Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, Taylor is newly married to Burton.

The couple had met on The Set of The Film Cleopatra and embarked on a passionate affair, while married to Other People .

They created a sensation wherever They Went and became in many ways The First " celebrity couple" long before Brangelina, Bennifer or Kimye.

Middleton says it's hard for younger people to understand now, nearly 60 years later, " just how famous they were".

" They were sort of like Exotic Animals , " she says, " people wanted to be close to them. "

The Play is set in 1964 when both were at The Height of their fame and Burton played Hamlet in an experimental production on Broadway directed by John Gielgud .

" Every single night, throughout The Run , " explains Middleton, " there were thousands of people in The Street outside The Theatre and The Roads were blocked off.

" And that would just never happen now, because celebrity doesn't hold that same kind of pull. "