Jane Campion

Nationality:
New Zealander
Birthdate:
04/30/1954
Birthplace:
Wellington, New Zealand
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biography
Along with Australian directors Gillian Armstrong, Jocelyn Moorhouse and Shirley Barrett, Jane Campion has emerged as a major feminist filmmaker. She has been responsible for some of the most acclaimed films to have originated from Down Under since the late 1980s. Her features all have one thing in common: a powerful, courageous woman as a central figure. From Genevieve Lemon's unhinged "Sweetie" (1989) to Kerry Fox's mentally troubled Janet Frame in "An Angel at My Table" (1990) to Holly Hunter's mute Ada in "The Piano" (1993) to Nicole Kidman's manipulated Isabel Archer in "The Portrait of a Continued
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Director
2003
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2003
Executive Producer
2000
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1996
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milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Raised in Wellington, New Zealand
1970 
Moved with family to a farm when she was aged 16 (date approximate)
 
Received degree in anthropology from Victoria College in Wellington, New Zealand
 
After graduating college, travelled to Europe; lived in Venice where she studied art; moved to Perugia to study Italian; later moved to London where she worked as an assistant to filmmaker of documentaries and commercials; eventually moved to Sydney, Australia
1980 
Directed first short film, "Tissues", while a student at Sydney College of the Arts
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