List of Popular American Directors

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards, both as an actor and a writer, and a Tony Award. Hawke has directed two feature films, three OffBroadway plays, and a documentary, and wrote the novels The Hottest State and Ash Wednesday .....
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Natalie Portman is an actress, film producer and film director with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Lon The Professional, opposite Jean Reno. She was later cast as Padm Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy .....
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Laura Poitras is an American director and producer of documentary films. She lives in New York City.....
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Alejandro Alcondez is a MexicanAmerican actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. Born in Jalisco, Mexico, Alcondez moved to Hollywood, California in the early 1990s. His acting career began in theater production plays, he then moved on to produce and write his own Mexican films Impacto de Muerte, Furia Salvaje and El Bronko Negro, which were distributed by his company Producciones Alejandro Alcondez.....
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Eva Jacqueline Longoria Baston is an American actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman. After a series of guest roles on several television series, Longoria was first recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braa on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 2001 to 2003. She is perhaps best known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives from 2004 to 2012, for which she was well received and was the re....
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Neil Druckmann is an IsraeliAmerican writer, creative director and programmer for the video game developer Naughty Dog, known for his work in the video games The Last of Us and Uncharted 4 A Thiefs End. He was born and raised until the age of 10 in Israel, where his experiences with entertainment would later influence his storytelling techniques. He studied computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University, before searching for work in the video game industry.....
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Lea Katherine Thompson is an American actress, television director, and television producer. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines in the Back to the Future trilogy and as the title character in the 1990s NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films she is known for include All the Right Moves, The Beverly Hillbillies, Howard the Duck, Jaws 3D, Red Dawn, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Since 2011 she has costarred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family series Switched at Birth.....
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Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known as the creator, writer and star of the HBO series Girls , for which she has received numerous Emmy award nominations and two Golden Globe awards. Dunhams work on Girls also led her to become the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing Comedy Series in 2013. In 2014, Dunham released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl A Young Woman Tells You What Shes Learned.....
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Drew Blythe Barrymore is an American actress, author, director, model and producer. She is a descendant of the Barrymore family of wellknown American stage and cinema actors, and is a granddaughter of actor John Barrymore. Barrymore first appeared in an advertisement when she was eleven months old. In 1980, she made her film debut in Altered States. In 1982, she starred in her breakout role as Gertie in Steven Spielbergs E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial and quickly became one of Hollywoods most recogn....
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William Frederick Fred Durst is an American musician, baseball hat model, and film director. He spent his formative years playing in a number of local bands in Jacksonville, Florida while mowing lawns and working as a tattoo artist for financial support. Durst is best known as the vocalist of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, with whom he has released six studio albums.....
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Kurt Lockwood is an American pornographic actor amp director, model, and musician.....
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Kurt Yaeger is an American actor, director and professional athlete, who is also a belowtheknee amputee. His recent work includes roles on the CBS hit show NCIS and the much anticipated HBOCinemax series Quarry. Kurt is notable for appearing in season five of the FX series Sons of Anarchy as Greg the Peg and in the Rudimental music video for the UK hit single Waiting All Night featuring vocals from Ella Eyre.....
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Marc David Maron is an American comedian, podcaster, writer, actor, musician, director, and producer.....
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Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish film director, screenwriter and producer. He moved to the United States in 1981 and is known for directing the crime dramas Bleeder and the Pusher films , the fictionalised biographical film Bronson , the dramatic adventure film Valhalla Rising , the neonoir crime film Drive and the thriller Only God Forgives . In 2008, Refn cofounded the Copenhagenbased production company Space Rocket Nation.....
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Kylie Ireland is an American pornographic actress, film director, producer, publicist, and Satellite radio show host. She is an inductee into the AVN, XRCO, NightMoves and Legends of Erotica Halls of Fame.....
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Paul Thomas Anderson also known as P.T. Anderson, is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Interested in filmmaking at a young age, Anderson was encouraged by his father Ernie Anderson to become a filmmaker.....
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Paul Wesley is an American actor, director, and producer. He is known for playing Aaron Corbett in the TV miniseries Fallen and Stefan Salvatore in The CWs supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries.....
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Blair Erwin Underwood is an American television, film, and stage actor and director. He played headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins on the NBC legal drama L.A. Law for seven years. He has received two Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and one Grammy Award. In recent years, he has appeared as Andrew Garner on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The New Adventures of Old Christine, Dirty Sexy Money and In Treatment and was in NBCs The Event.....
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Bobbi Starr is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. Starr also became a director for Evil Angel. Her first title, Bobbis World, is a female POV movie.....
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Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor, singersongwriter, and director. After starting his career with television appearances in the early 1990s, Leto achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My SoCalled Life . He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quilt and received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine . Leto played supporting roles in The Thin Red Line , Fight Club and American Psycho , as well as the lead role in Urban Legend ,....
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