Birthday: Mar 27, 1963

Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee

Biography: Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter. His family moved to Los Angeles where he later got a job at a video rental store. He rapidly rose to fame in the early 1990s as a latter-day auteur whose use of nonlinear storylines, memorable dialogue, and bloody violence brought new life to familiar American film archetypes. He is one of the most famous of the young directors behind the independent film revolution of the 1990s, well-known for his pub... ... (read more...) lic persona as a motor-mouthed, geeky hipster with an encyclopedic knowledge of both popular and art-house cinema.