American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
Steven Brill |
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Born | (1962-05-27) May 27, 1962 (age 62)
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Occupations |
- Actor
- director
- screenwriter
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Years active | 1989–present |
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Spouse | Ruthanna Hopper[1] |
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Steven Brill (born May 27, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote Little Nicky and directed Mr. Deeds, Without a Paddle, Heavyweights, and Drillbit Taylor. He has had cameo roles in all three Mighty Ducks movies, and appeared in The Wedding Singer, Mr. Deeds, and Knocked Up, although his role in the latter has been miscredited to Judd Apatow. He also appeared as the Barfly in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
As a director, Brill was one of the central players (alongside Harvey Weinstein) in the 2007/2008 Fanboys reshoot/editing controversy.[2][3][4]
Education
Steven Brill attended high school (1976–1980) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Brill graduated from Boston University's Film School. There he studied with poet Derek Walcott and collaborated with Marc Maron on screenplays and standup comedy during a tumultuous formative period discussed on the 500th episode of WTF with Marc Maron.[5]
Filmography
TV movies
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Director
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1999 |
Late Last Night |
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Yes
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2007 |
The Weekend |
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No
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Acting roles
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2010s |
- M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
- Dennis Dugan – Jack and Jill and Just Go with It (2011)
- Bill Condon – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
- Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, and Jonathan van Tulleken – Movie 43 (2013)
- Michael Bay – Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
- Josh Trank – Fantastic Four (2015)
- Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley – Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)
- Tony Leondis – The Emoji Movie (2017)
- Etan Cohen – Holmes & Watson (2018)
- Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
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