M. Night Shyamalan
Manoj Shyamalan , known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an IndianAmerican film director, screenwriter, producer and occasional actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots. His major films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense , the superhero drama thriller Unbreakable , the science fiction thriller Signs , the psychological thriller The Village , the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water , the natural thriller The Happening , the fantasy adventure film The Last Airbender , the scifi actionadventure film After Earth and the horror film The Visit . He is also known for filming and setting his films in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised, and for including plot twists.
Shyamalan was born in Mahe, Pondicherry in Southwestern India to South Indian parents. His father, Nelliate C. Shyamalan, is a Malayali from Mah and graduated with a medical degree from JIPMER. His mother, Jayalakshmi, is a Tamilian obstetrician and gynecologist by profession. In the 1960s, after medical school and the birth of their first child, Veena, his parents moved to the United States. His mother returned to India to spend the last five months of her second pregnancy at her parents home in Chennai.
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