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Patty Jenkins Biography
Patty Jenkins is an American film director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing Monster(2003) and in 2017 she directed Wonder Woman (2017), and is slated to direct the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984.
Patty Jenkins Age
Patty was born on July 24, 1971 in Victorville, California. He is 47 years old as of 2018.
Patty Jenkins Family
Patty was born in Victorville, California. She is the daughter of William T. Jenkins, an Air Force captain and fighter pilot who earned a Silver Star in the Vietnam War, and Emily Roth, who worked in San Francisco as an environmental scientist. Patty has an older sister known as Elaine Roth.
When she was years old her father passed away during a NATO mock dogfight in the ocean at the age of 31. Patty’s mom decided to take her and her sister to San Francisco so that she could go to school to become an environmental scientist. She was being dropped by her mom at the movies to pass the time while she was at school.
That how she fell in love with the movies. Patty watched the original Superman starring Christopher Reeve and after leaving that movie she saw what superheroes were designed to do, inspire the superhero within. During that moment Patty set a goal for herself to make a movie that left people feeling the way she felt walking out of that theater.
Patty Jenkins Education
She spent kindergarten through her junior year of high school living in Lawrence, Kansas. She received her undergraduate degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1993, and her masters in directing from the American Film Institute’s AFI Conservatory in 2000.
While a student at AFI, Jenkins, an avid fan of the films of Pedro Almodóvar, made the 2001 short film Velocity Rules, that she describes as a cross between a superhero film and Almodóvar’s tone about an accident-prone housewife.
Patty Jenkins Husband
Patty married Sam Sheridan, a former firefighter and the author of the book A Fighter’s Heart. The couple has a son together and live in Santa Monica, California.
Patty Jenkins PhotosPatty Jenkins Movies
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Year |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Other |
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2020 |
Wonder Woman 1984 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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2017 |
Wonder Woman |
Yes |
No |
No |
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2003 |
Monster |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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2001 |
Velocity Rules |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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1996 |
A Modern Affair |
No |
No |
Yes |
Patty Jenkins Wonder Woman
Being a filmmaker, Patty’s main interest lies in superhero films, as apparent through Monster and Wonder Woman. In the film Monster, Patty explored the issues of morality and feminity. In Wonder Woman, she suggests that the audience experiences the journey of the lead character Diana Prince through Diana’s eyes. Diana is portrayed as the universal human character who the audiences never experience from the outside.
Patty suggests that the major theme of the film is the idea of there being no other villain, but humans themselves. Patty mentions how she was influenced by Superman and how that is incorporated in her own superhero film
Patty Jenkins I Am The Night
The US cable network TNT announced Ii July 2017 that Patty would direct the premiere of a six-episode television drama, I Am the Night, written by her author husband Sam Sheridan and featuring her Wonder Woman star Chris Pine. Additionally, she served as an executive producer.
Patty Jenkins Barbie
After years of being stuck in Development Hell at Sony, the Barbie movie it came together at Warner Bros. with Margot Robbie attached to star and Patty Jenkins in early talks to direct, according to trade reports.
Monster Patty Jenkins | Patty Jenkins Barbie Doll
Patty wrote and directed the 2003 crime drama film Monster. The film about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men in the late 1980s and early 1990s
Patty Jenkins Net Worth
Patty has an estimated net worth of $10 million dollars.
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