Biography for
Kimberly Peirce More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

Trivia

She has a B.A. in English and Japanese literature from University of Chicago and an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University. She lived in Japan for two years and worked as a photographer, and has written magazine articles about film.

Graduated from Miami Sunset High School in Miami, Florida and is a former classmate of comedian Mark Ginzo

Considered directing Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).

Spent years developing "Silent Star," which would have been about one of early Hollywood's infamous scandals, the murder of silent film director and actor William Desmond Taylor. By the end of 2003, Peirce had the film cast with Annette Bening, Hugh Jackman and Ben Kingsley, only to balk when the studio asked her to make a $30-million movie for $20 million.

Has a younger brother, Brett, who enlisted in the Army at 18.

One of 105 people invited to join AMPAS in 2008.

Personal Quotes

You talk to any director, it's tough. It's tough to make movies that you love.

I like to go for the reality, I like to go for what's underneath. And I don't even judge it. But that isn't what all Hollywood movies are. That's an example where my success in 'Boys [Don't Cry]' brought me this great Hollywood career and all these offers that I really appreciate, but I really have a very particular thing that I like doing. I love real emotion, I love real drama.

(On The Godfather) It showed me that I can take that love of the gangster movie and I can screen it through a family drama. In both my movies family is really important, violence is really important. I'm really interested in the psychological and the authentic portrayal of violence-particularly violence that comes out of emotions. Before The Godfather, I don't know that you could have such a violent psychological film that was that broadly entertaining.