Sam Mendes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sam Mendes

English stage and film director

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1965

Place of Birth: Reading, England, United Kingdom

Profession: screenwriter, television producer, television director, film director, film producer, theater director

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stage director best known for his directoral debut film American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film Road to Perdition (2002), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003).
He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019. In 2000 Mendes was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to drama" and in the same year was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany.
In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".