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Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes

Director · Born 1965-08-01 · Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

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Biography

Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University. He began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). For the first time, he directed an original West End stage musical with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night, and The…

Directed

  1. Skyfall (2012) — Director
  2. 1917 (2019) — Director
  3. American Beauty (1999) — Director
  4. Spectre (2015) — Director
  5. Revolutionary Road (2008) — Director
  6. Road to Perdition (2002) — Director
  7. Jarhead (2005) — Director
  8. Away We Go (2009) — Director
  9. Empire of Light (2022) — Director
  10. The Franchise (2024) — Director
  11. Cabaret (1993) — Director
  12. What They Found (2025) — Director
  13. National Theatre Live: King Lear (2014) — Director
  14. Company (1996) — Director
  15. National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue (2024) — Director
  16. National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy (2019) — Director
  17. Performance (1991) — Director
  18. The Beatles: Ringo (2028) — Director
  19. The Beatles: George (2028) — Director
  20. The Beatles: John (2028) — Director
  21. The Beatles: Paul (2028) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015) — Self - Guest
  2. Toast of London (2013) — Sam Mendes
  3. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  4. Everything or Nothing (2012) — Self
  5. The Sound of 007 (2022) — Self
  6. Allied Forces: Making 1917 (2020) — Self
  7. NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage (2014) — Self
  8. American Beauty: Look Closer... (2000) — Self
  9. Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange' (2000) — Self
  10. Who Needs Sleep? (2006) — Self
  11. Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage (2016) — Self
  12. Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (2022)
  13. Company (1996) — Self
  14. Unscripted (2005) — Sam Mendes
  15. Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes (2022) — Self
  16. A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall (2010) — Self
  17. Tom Hanks: A League of His Own (2016) — Self
  18. Performance (1991) — Self
  19. Semper Fi: Life After the Corps (2006) — Self
  20. Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing (2017) — Self
  21. "Jarhead" Diaries (2006) — Self
  22. Jarhead: Background (2006) — Self