Director

Jennie Livingston

Directing

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 1All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 107831

IMDb ID: nm0515255

Known for: Directing

Born: February 24, 1962

Age: 64

Place of birth: Dallas, Texas, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2024

Years active: 34

Average TMDB rating: 7.22

Wikidata: Q6178010

Also known as

제니 리빙스턴

Frequent jobs

Director (3)Director of Photography (1)Producer (2)Executive Producer (1)

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Biography

Jennie Livingston is a groundbreaking filmmaker, known for her lively storytelling, nuanced character portraits, and thoughtful explorations of identity, class, race, death, sex, and gender. She works in both fiction and nonfiction. Jennie's taught at Yale, Connecticut College, and Brooklyn College, lectured widely, written for national magazines, and appeared as a subject or speaker in a number of documentaries and cultural programs. Livingston has been a recipient of grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the German Academic Exchange, the MacDowell Colony, The Newhouse Foundation, the Rosenthal Family Foundation, The Getty Center, and others. Livingston was born in Texas, raised in Los Angeles, educated at Yale, and lives in New York City.