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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1951-07-19 ) July 19, 1951 (age 74) , New York City , U.S.
- Other names
- Jimmy Boy L Jimmy Laine
- Alma mater
- Rockland Community College SUNY Purchase San Francisco Art Institute
- Occupations
- Director screenwriter actor producer musician songwriter
- Years active
- 1971–present
- Spouses
- Nancy Ferrara ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1982 , divorced ) Cristina Chiriac
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Abel Ferrara – Official Website
The official website of filmmaker Abel Ferrara. Connect to Ferrara’s Web TV channels: Watch movies, behind the scenes videos, and interviews with the director of Bad Lieutenant, Dangerous Game, King of New York, Driller Killer, and more.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Abel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.abelferrara.com
- Image
- Abel Ferrara Cannes 2017.jpg
- Work location
- United States
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- unmarried partner
- Katarzyna Figura
- name in native language
- Abel Ferrara
- ethnic group
- Irish Americans
- Commons category
- Abel Ferrara
- date of birth
- 1951-07-19
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Abel Ferrara
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Abel Ferrara ( Italian: [ferˈraːɾa]; born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the provocative and often controversial content in his movies and his use and redefinition of neo-noir imagery. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known movies include the New York-set, gritty crime thrillers The Driller Killer (1979), Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and The Funeral (1996), chronicling violent crime in urban settings with spiritual overtones.
Ferrara has worked in a wide array of genres, including the sci-fi adaptation Body Snatchers (1993), cyberpunk thriller New Rose Hotel (1998), the religious drama Mary (2005), the black comedy Go Go Tales (2007), and the biopic Pasolini (2014), as well as several documentary filmmaking projects.
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