![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer Biography:As one half of the brotherly directing team that also includes his sibling Joe, Anthony Russo was in large part responsible for the success of the critically acclaimed but criminally short-lived Fox television sitcom Arrested Development. Born a year apart in an Italian neighborhood of Cleveland, OH, the sons of a prominent liberal politician first learned the value of hard work when the political turmoil of the 1970s found their hometown the first American city to go bankrupt since the Great Depression. Subsequently determined to make a name for themselves in the world of cinema, Anthony and Joe got a head start on film-school education by using credit cards and student loans to finance Pieces, a black comedy concerning the hair-replacement industry that served as a crash course into the world of filmmaking for the pair. They shot the film in and around their hometown with the help of numerous friends... Full Biography
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