Mira Nair

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Nationality: Indian
Birthdate: 10/15/1957
Birthplace: Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India

biography

Indian born director Mira Nair began to earn critical buzz for her early documentary films, but with her feature debut “Salaam Bombay” (1988), she was catapulted into the international spotlight with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Throughout Nair’s career she made films both in the United States and in India, earning independent and film festival notoriety for the colorful family ensemble “Monsoon Wedding” (2001) and the considerably grittier “Namesake” (2006), while finding success among mainstream audiences with the interracial romantic drama “Mississippi Masala” (1992), Continued

Credits

Director
2009
(TV Show)
2008-2008
Narrator
2008
Producer
2007
Director
2007
Director
2004
Producer
2002
Director
2002
Producer
1998
From Story
1998
Director
1998
Director
1997
screenplay
1997
Producer
1997
Producer
1991
Director
1991
Director
Director

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Spent first fifteen years of her life in Orissa, a delta area in eastern India
 
Acted for amateur theater company, directed by Barry John (who later worked with her when he directed the children's workshop preceding the shooting of "Salaam Bombay"!") In Delhi for three years
1976 
Offered scholarship by Cambridge University; turned it down in favor of Harvard
1976 
Moved to USA to study at Harvard
1979 
Made first film, "Jama Masjid/Street Journal," as student thesis at Harvard
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