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Steven Soderbergh
Director
Date of Birth: 1963-01-14, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Steven Soderbergh is the great challenger to the idea of 'auteur' directors - helmers who command a clear, distinct aesthetic throughout their careers. By contrast, Soderbergh is a jack of all trades, frequently crossing genres, production styles, and budgetary constraints while alternating between mega-wattage blockbusters and tiny arthouse flicks. Regardless, he's a brilliant director, substituting the consistency of contemporaries like Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese for a deft ability to, for lack of a better phrase, mess around.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 14, 1963, Soderbergh grew up mainly in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where his father held a post at Louisiana State. It was there that he discovered filmmaking at an early age, borrowing equipment from LSU and making Super 8mm films as a teen. He skipped college and moved straight to Hollywood, working various showbiz odd-jobs including duties as a cue card holder and eventually as a freelance editor. His early work includes the Grammy-nominated concert short, 'Yes: 9012 Live' and the black and white short 'Winston', which he used to attract investors to his first full-length feature.
Soderbergh wrote 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape' in eight days while home in Baton Rouge, which turned into his first feature and was easily the most impressive cinematic debut since Peter Bogdanovich's 'The Last Picture Show'. A sordid tale of sex, voyeurism, and angst, 'Sex, Lies
