Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall ( born October 17, 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin ) is an American film director and choreographer.
Life
Rob Marshall grew up in Pittsburgh. His first film he made as a child on the Oaklands Falk School. At twelve, he began his career in the theater.
After school, he began studying at Carnegie Mellon University. He broke it and gave However, in the early 1970s his Broadway debut in the musical A Chorus Line. In 1982 he completed his studies.
After graduating, he moved to New York, where he worked as a singer and dancer in several Broadway plays. After a herniated disc at the age of 27 years when he was cast in the musical Cats, he decided to end his own representations and began to work as a choreographer. In 1993 he received a first award for his work as a choreographer in the Broadway play Kiss of the Spider Woman. In the following years he was involved in many productions. The first -time director he had with Sam Mendes together in the revival of the play Cabaret.
In 1996, he oversee the choreography of the television production Mrs. Santa Claus and 1997 he choreographed the television version of the musical Cinderella. 1999 also still directed the successful TV movie Annie.
His big breakthrough came with his first feature film, the musical film adaptation of Chicago in the year 2002. Marshall received a nomination for Best Director in both the Golden Globe Award as well as the Academy Awards. The film won six Oscars. In 2005 he directed the award-winning drama The Geisha Director while he for his work on television production in 2007 Tony Bennett: An American Classic Variety, Music or received the Emmy in Directing for a comedy show.
Marshall lives with his partner John DeLuca in New York City.