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Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski (born Raymond Roman Thierry Polanski, 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish movie director, producer, writer and actor.
Cineasta roman polanski biography
In 2003, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist.[1]p148[2]p186
Personal life
[change | change source]Polanski was born in Paris, France but his family moved back to Poland in 1937.[3]p313[4]p250 His parents were agnostics.[5] Because the family was Jewish,[6] they were persecuted by the Nazis in Poland and forced to live in a ghetto.[1]p2/4 Polanski's mother died at Auschwitz.[7]p2 He later went to film school at Lodz [8] and graduated in 1959.
Polanski won many awards for his short movies and went on to make full-length movies in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Polanski's first marriage was to actress Barbara Lass in 1959; they divorced in 1961.[9]
While filming the movie