- Graduated from Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas.
- Good friends with actor Robert Kelly-Schleyer.
- Started making short films at the age of eleven using an old MOS 16mm camera and black & white film.
- Father, Michael Lee Rankin, formerly a chemical engineer, financial analysts, and genealogists, now studies/researches Earth weather history.
- Mother, Frances May (Tyler) Rankin, formerly a chemist; has been an out spoken political activist in the Houston area, taking on former House Majority leader Tom Delay by expanding the democratic voters in Delays former congressional district, and helping elect Nick Lampson against Delay: successfully.
- Abigail Adam's seventh-great-nephew, making John Quincy Adams his sixth-first cousin.
- 10th great-grandson of Job Tyler, an outspoken religious zealot and Henry Samson, Mayflower passenger.
- Family's estate house was the first private residence in Scranton, Pennsylvania with electricity and central heat.
- Edith Roosevelt, 4th great-aunt; Teddy Roosevelt 4th great-uncle.
- Great-grandfather Tyler owned the first general public auto-garage in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1901.
- Has one son, George-Quincy Keith Rankin, with his girlfriend Alexa Matz.
- 6th great-grandson of Hannah Adams, President John Adams 1st cousin.
- Was a student at the University of Houston Clear Lake: Art School for Children & Young Adults, from 1990-2001.
- The second filmmaker in his family, though they are separated by a century.
- The grandson of an oil distributor and an Accountant/Professor.
- New York City (May 2009)
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