Brett Ratner
Gender: Male
Born: 28th March 1969 (currently 42 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: After the Sunset, Beverly Hills Cop IV, Blue Blood, Cop House, Money Talks, Movie 43, Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra, New York, I Love You, Red Dragon, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 3, Shooter Series: Brett Ratner, The Family Man, Tower Heist, X-Men 4: New Breeds, X-Men: The Last Stand
Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director, film producer and music video director. He is best known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break.
Ratner was born in Miami Beach, Florida. His mother, Marcia Presman, was the daughter of Eastern European Jews who lived in Cuba before moving to Florida in the 1960s. His father was Ronald Ratner, the son of a wealthy Miami businessman. Ratner's parents married when he was in his senior year of high school, and his father died in 2006. Ratner told Aventura Business Monthly in a May, 2011, cover story interview that he "really didn't know" his biological father, and that he considers Alvin Malnik, who opened the famous Forge restaurant in Miami Beach, to be his dad, "the one who raised" him.
Ratner attended high school in Israel and graduated in 1986 from Miami Beach Senior High School. He is a 1990 graduate of New York University. In 2010, he cited the 1980 boxing film Raging Bull as his inspiration to enter the world of film.
Ratner had directed several music videos and one film, the 1997
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