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Quentin Jerome Tarantino is born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father is an Italian American actor and musician from New York, and his mother is a nurse from Tennessee.
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Quentin Tarantino moves to Torrance, California with his mom when he was four years old. -
Quentin Tarantino worked in a video store in California before writing and selling two screenplays that became True Romance and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. -
The first-time writer-director's Reservoir Dogs appeared at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992 which was a game-changer, immediately establishing a legendary career for Tarantino.