![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Screenwriter, Actor Born: 1969 Biography:A writer and director who, with two films, established himself as a disciple of the "Whit Stillman" School of Well-Heeled Post-Modern Post-Collegiate Anxiety, "Noah Baumbach" emerged as one of the more talented and literate young directors of the 1990s.
The son of Georgia Brown, a film critic for the Village Voice, and Jonathan Baumbach, a novelist and film critic for The Partisan Review, Baumbach began writing and directing at a young age, first earning awards for his work during his senior year at Midwood High School. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he went on to attend Vassar, where he met "Carlos Jacott", an actor who would appear in all of the director's films. Baumbach made his screenwriting and directorial debut in 1995 with "Kicking and Screaming". An ensemble comedy starring "Eric Stoltz", "Olivia D'Abo", and "Josh Hamilton", it focused on the growing pains of a group of graduates struggling... Full Biography
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