Todd Solondz

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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 10/15/1959
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, United States

biography

The strange film career of writer-director Todd Solondz, responsible for "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1995), a heartbreaking yet hilarious chronicle of junior high school life, has provided some quirky twists to the standard Hollywood success story. Born in Newark and raised in suburban Irvington, New Jersey, the eight-year-old future filmmaker wanted to become a rabbi. This desire propelled him through a succession of religious, public and private schools. Having decided against the ecclesiastical life, Solondz eventually landed among the decidedly humanistic literary set, studying English at Continued

Credits

Director
2005
Screenplay
2005
Director
2002
screenplay
2002
Director
1998
screenplay
1998
Screenplay
1996
Producer
1996
Director
1996
screenplay
1996
Source Material
Screenplay

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Moved with family from Newark to suburban Livingston, New Jersey in the 1960s
 
Moved to Los Angeles; worked as a messenger at the Writers Guild while writing screenplays
 
Moved to New York City and enrolled at New York University
1984 
Wrote and directed first student short, "Feelings," at NYU
1984 
Wrote and directed second student short, "Babysitter," at NYU
Continued

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