![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Songwriter Born: April 26, 1949 in Niles, OH Biography:A successful music video and TV commercial director, "Dominic Sena" joined the burgeoning ranks of TV ad-bred feature film helmers in the 1990s. Born in Ohio, Sena entered the media industry as a cameraman in the early '80s. Moving to music videos as well as TV ads in the mid-'80s, he earned a Grammy for his direction of "Janet Jackson"'s "Rhythm Nation 1814" (1989) and continued to make award-winning TV spots, including several for Nike, throughout the 1990s. Bringing his visual panache to feature films, Sena earned praise for his debut, "Kalifornia" (1993). Though it did not attract as much attention as outlaw couple movies "True Romance" (1993) and "Natural Born Killers" (1994), "Kalifornia"'s well-honed atmosphere of irony and claustrophobia, and strong performances from new stars "Brad Pitt" and "Juliette Lewis", as well as up-and-comers "David Duchovny" and "Michelle Forbes", gained admirers. For... Full Biography
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