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Sam Mendes
Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn August 1, 1965 (60 years)
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 Ferryman. On Broadway, he earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022.
In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
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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 Ferryman. On Broadway, he earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022.
In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
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Sam Mendes Filmography
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| 2024 | The Franchise (2024) (TV Series) |
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| 1991 | Performance (TV Series) |
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| 2024 | The End · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | The Franchise (2024) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | |
| 2018 | Informer (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Britannia (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Blood · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Out of the Ashes · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | The Kite Runner · as Executive Producer |
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| 2007 | Stuart: A Life Backwards · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Starter for 10 · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | |
| 2019 | 1917 · as Screenplay |
| 2023 | Beau Geste (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | The Sound of 007 · as Self |
| 2022 | Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes · as Self |
| 2022 | The 75th Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2021 | Being James Bond: The Daniel Craig Story · as Self |
| 2020 | Allied Forces: Making 1917 · as Self |
| 2020 | The Oscars · as Self - Nominee |
| 2020 | 2020 EE BAFTA Film Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2020 | The 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2020 | 2020 Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2019 | The 73rd Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2017 | Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing · as Himself |
| 2016 | Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage · as Self |
| 2016 | Keepers of the Magic · as Self |
| 2016 | The Hollow Crown: Making of The Hollow Crown · as Self - Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Spectre: Bond's Biggest Opening Sequence · as Self - Director |
| 2016 | Spectre: Video Blogs · as Self |
| 2015 | 'Spectre' Breaks Guinness World Record · as Self - Director |
| 2015 | James Bond's 'Spectre' with Jonathan Ross · as Self - Director |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2014 | NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage · as Himself |
| 2014 | Good Morning Britain (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | Skyfall: Shooting Bond · as Self - Director |
| 2012 | Everything or Nothing · as Self |
| 2012 | Toast of London (TV Series) · as Sam Mendes |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | Skyfall on Set · as Self |
| 2009 | Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2007 | Xposé (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2006 | The ONE Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | Semper Fi · as Self |
| 2006 | CBeebies Bedtime Stories (TV Series) · as Self - Storyteller |
| 2006 | Who Needs Sleep? · as Self |
| 2005 | Made In Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | Sunday Morning (TV Series) · as Self - Director |
| 2005 | 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards · as Self |
| 2005 | The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2005 · as Self |
| 2005 | Unscripted (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Culture Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | The Making of 'Road to Perdition' · as Self - Director |
| 2002 | The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self |
| 2000 | American Beauty: Look Closer... · as Self |
| 2000 | The 72nd Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
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| 2000 | The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1998 | The 11 O'Clock Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | WGN Morning News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | HBO First Look (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Performance (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1988 | This Morning (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) · as Self - Director, Spectre |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Film (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (TV Series) |
| 2014 | King Lear · as Stage Director |
| 2013 | Shrek the Musical · as Producer: Neal Street Productions Ltd. |