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Charlie Kaufman
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Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer
Born:
1958
Biography:In 1999, screenwriter "Charlie Kaufman" went practically overnight from being just another former television writer trying to break into features to one the industry's hottest talents, all thanks to one film: "Being John Malkovich". "Being John Malkovich"'s surreal comic vision seemed to suggest an imagination that appeared practically out of nowhere, and in many ways that isn't far from the truth -- despite his sudden success as a screenwriter, "Kaufman" has remained notoriously tight-lipped about his life and career, and consequently not a great deal is known about him. "Charlie Kaufman" was apparently born in late 1958, and raised on the East Coast; he spend his early years in Massapequa, Long Island, and attended junior high and high school in West Hartford, Connecticut, where his family moved in 1972. ("Kaufman" once told a journalist that he "grew up in the equivalent of Levittown, that kind of... Full Biography
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, left, and director Charlie Kaufman on the set of "Synecdoche, New York"...
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Charlie Kaufman at the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind premiere in Beverly Hills on March 09,...
Charlie Kaufman at the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind premiere in Beverly Hills on March 09,...
Charlie Kaufman
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