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Meredith Monk

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Directed movies: 12Directed series: 0All crew credits: 22

TMDB ID: 1303053

IMDb ID: nm0598229

Known for: Acting

Born: November 20, 1942

Age: 83

Place of birth: Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1966 - 2025

Years active: 60

Average TMDB rating: 7.1

Wikidata: Q267170

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Biography

Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.[1] In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004). Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.

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