Quentin Jerome Tarantino (pronounced /ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ/; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and occasional actor. In the early 1990s he began his career as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and a Palme d'Or and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy awards.
EARLY LIFE
Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician who was born in Queens, New York.[1] Tarantino's father is Italian American and his mother is of Irish and Cherokee ancestry.[2][3][4] He was raised by his mother, as his parents separated before his birth.[5] When he was two years old, he and his mother moved to Torrance, California, and later to the Harbor City neighborhood where he went to Fleming Junior High School in Lomita and took drama classes.[5] He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 16. He attended acting school at the James Best Theatre Company in Toluca Lake. At age 22 he worked at the Video Archives, a defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach where he and fellow movie buffs, like Roger Avary, spent all day discussing cinema and recommending videos to customers.[6]
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