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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. -
Tarantino started kindergarten in the San Gabriel Valley in 1968
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Tarantino moved to El Segundo, California where he attended Hawthorne Christian School. He said that even in elementary school, his interest lay in movies, not academics.
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Tarantino also attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California, but dropped out at age 15 or 16. He stated he did not complete high school and moved into working at a video store and adult-cinema as an usher. -
Through the 1980s, Tarantino had a number of jobs. In younger years, he worked as an usher in an adult movie theater in Torrance, Ca
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Quentin Tarantino co-wrote the short film Love Birds in Bondage with Scott Magill. Tarantino produced and directed the film.
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In 1986, Tarantino landed his first Hollywood job working with Video Archives colleague Roger Avary, as production assistants on Dolph Lundgren's exercise video, Maximum Potential.
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My Best Friend's Birthday was co-written, edited, and produced by Tarantino. It was an unfinished project, but some of the dialogue was used in True Romance.
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Tarantino attended acting school at James Best Theater Company -
He played an Elvis impersonator in Sophia's Wedding Part 1; an episode in the fourth season of The Golden Girls. Tarantino recalled the pay he received helped support him through the preproduction of The Reservoir Dogs. -
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. -
Tarantino wrote, directed, and acted in the dark comedy crime film. He received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; He also received nomination for Best Director. -
Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino retreated to Amsterdam to work on the script for Pulp Fiction -
Tarantino also won the Palme d'Or award for Pulp Fiction
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After the successful film Pulp Fiction, Tarantino appeared in minor roles in films such as All-American Girl, and Destiny Turns on the Radio.
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Tarantino directed and acted in the fourth segment of "The Man from Hollywood, a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Man from the South". Later the same year he landed a supporting role in Desperado.
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Tarantino starred in Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, a simulation video game that uses pre-generated film clips
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One of Tarantino's first paid writing assignments was for From Dusk till Dawn which starred George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, and Juliette Lewis. -
Jackie Brown is one of my favorite Quentin Tarantino movies. This was his third feature film, an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. The author considered Jackie Brown to be his favorite of the 26 different screen adaptations of his novels and short stories. -
Tarantino had his first Broadway debut playing the part of an amoral psycho killer in a revival of the 1966 play Wait Until Dark. His performance did not receive favorable reviews, unfortunately.
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Tarantino went on to write and direct Kill Bill, described as a highly stylish "revenge flick" based on a character called "The Bride" Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo is the protagonist in the films. -
Kill Bill was originally a four hour long running time which prompted Tarantino to divide it into two movies. Kill Bill Volume 2 was released in 2004 -
In May of 2005, Tarantino co-wrote and directed "Grave Danger", the fifth season finale of CSI, which he was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series at the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards. -
Inglourious Basterds, a story of a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers in Nazi-occupied France in an alternate history of World War II. The movie had the highest box office gross in the US and Canada for the weekend on release. Tarantino received his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. -
Revenge of a former slave in the Southern United States in 1858. Tarantino called the proposed style "a southern". The film was released in 2012 and became his highest grossing film to date. He received his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. -
Tarantino directed a live reading of the leaked script at the United Artists Theater in the Ace Hotel Los Angeles for the Live Read series. Later, the film was released on 12/30/2015 which received positive reviews from critics. -
In February of 2018, Tarantino created Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a film about a fictional star of Westerns that lived next door to the actress Sharon Tate. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone stated, "Tarantino's all-star fantasia links Hollywood and Manson-era violence into the best and most explosive cinema we've seen all year." -
Tarantino is married to Daniella Pick and together they have two children, Adriana Tarantino and Connie Zastoupil -
In 2009, Tarantino said he intends to retire after his tenth movie: "If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don't screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career." In January of 2025, at the Sundance Film Festival, Tarantino said he was "in no hurry" to make his final film. Rumor has it he is planning to instead write a stage play.