Biography for
Nicole Holofcener More at IMDbPro »

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Has a 21 year old adopted brother, who is African-American.

Daughter of set decorator Carol Joffe and writer/artist Lawrence Holofcener.

Attended the film school at New York University..

Invited to join AMPAS in 2006.

Stepdaughter of Charles H. Joffe.

Divorced mother of twin sons Gabe and Joe.

Attended graduate school at Columbia University.

Lives in Venice, California with her sons [2010].

Grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City.

Older stepsister of Cory Joffe.

Stepdaughter of Julia Holofcener.

Personal Quotes

On the subject of interracial adoption: "I didn't want the character in the movie (Lovely and Amazing) to be the cute kid that makes everyone feel they had done a good deed."

But the fact that I can make movies, I don't have much to complain about. I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because in general the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power. I don't know if it's changed since we made our first movies.

I haven't been attacked for showing the girlie or frivolous sides that women have, that I can care about the size of my ass and something else really important, it doesn't mean I'm shallow. And I think that true feminism does embrace all sides of women.

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.

"I feel like I grew up in the movies. When I said, 'I want to be a movie director,' my family knew what that meant. I was on a lot of Woody's sets from the time I was a kid - I was an extra on Take the Money and Run (1969) and Sleeper (1973). So I was comfortable on a film set; I knew what they looked like".

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.