Ethan Coen

AKA:
Roderick Jaynes
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
09/21/1957
Birthplace:
St Louis Park, Minnesota
biography
With director, co-writer and brother Joel, writer-producer Ethan Coen was part of the most celebrated brother act in recent entertainment memory. He helmed a series of stylish, irreverent and cinema-savvy movies that charmed critics while thrilling an initially small, but loyal band of viewers. Though they evinced a powerful fascination with film genres – particularly screwball comedy and film noir – the Coen Brothers earned a great deal of respect from the Hollywood community despite their penchant to work outside the system. These self-conscious movies-within-movies possessed humorous camera Continued
Credits
Executive Producer
2007
Director
2007
Producer
2007
Screenplay
2007
Screenplay
2007
Director
2007
Screenplay
2004
Producer
2004
Director
2004
Executive Producer
2003
Screenplay
2003
Producer
2003
screenplay
2001
Producer
2001
screenplay
2000
screenplay
2000
Producer
2000
screenplay
1998
Producer
1998
screenplay
1996
Producer
1996
Producer
1994
screenplay
1994
screenplay
1991
Producer
1991
screenplay
1987
Producer
1987
Screenplay
Executive Producer
screenplay
screenplay
screenplay
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Grew up in St Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota
 
Left high school early
 
Transferred to a private school in Massachusetts, Simon's Rock of Bard College
 
Attended Princeton University as a philosophy major
1980 
Left college to join brother Joel in NYC
1980 
Did temp work as a statistical typist at Macy's department store in NYC
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