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Director, Screenwriter, Actor Biography:Writer/director Tamara Jenkins took her initial career bow in the late '90s, riding to fame on the crest of the American independent film movement in the same generation as such contemporaries as Paul Thomas Anderson and David Fincher. While not nearly as prolific as the said directors, Jenkins did net exceptionally favorable reviews comparable to those thrust on her colleagues, though a lengthy period in between her freshman and sophomore efforts kept her out of the public limelight and therefore forced a low profile on the nascent filmmaker.
The daughter of a Philadelphia-area strip-club owner father and a hat-check girl mother, Jenkins survived a messy period when her parents divorced; she wound up in the custody of her dad and followed him to the West Coast, where he tried to make a living hawking oversized cars during the energy crisis of the mid-'70s. In time, increasingly challenging... Full Biography
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