Tamara Jenkins
Tamara Jenkins · Arts & Literature
Writer-director of Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages
1962, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
United States
Tamara Jenkins is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Writer-director of Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages
Jenkins is a writer-director whose semi-autobiographical films — 'Slums of Beverly Hills' (1998), 'The Savages' (2007) and 'Private Life' (2018) — blend comedy and pathos; 'The Savages' earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. She is Jewish, and Jewish family experience informs much of her work.
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Writer-director of Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters
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