Steven Soderbergh
Gender: Male
Born: 14th January 1963 (currently 49 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: 9012Live, And Everything Is Going Fine, Arthur & Lancelot, Bubble, Che: Part Two, Cleo, Contagion, Erin Brockovich, Eros, Full Frontal, Gray's Anatomy, Greatest Video Hits, Haywire, Kafka, King of the Hill, Liberace, Life Interrupted, Magic Mike, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Thirteen, Ocean's Twelve, Out of Sight, Schizopolis, sex, lies and videotape, Solaris, The Argentine, The Girlfriend Experience, The Good German, The Great Antonio, The Informant!, The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg, The Limey, The Underneath, Traffic, Wholphin: Issue 2
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (pronounced /ˈsoʊdərbɜrɡ/; born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing critically acclaimed commercial Hollywood films like Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich and Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven. He has also directed smaller, less conventional works, such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Schizopolis, Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience and Che. His most recent works are Contagion and Haywire.
Soderbergh was born in Atlanta, the son of Mary Ann (née Bernard) and Peter Andrew Soderbergh, who was a university administrator and educator. His paternal grandfather was a Swedish immigrant, from Stockholm. When he was a child, his family moved from Atlanta to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he lived during his adolescence, then moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father became Dean of Education at Louisiana State University (LSU). There he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students.
While the family resided in Baton Rouge, Soderbergh's mother appeared regularly on a
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