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Rob Marshall
American film and theatre director and producer
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- Transfiguration
- Guide to Eclectus Parrots
- Paradise Broken
- Memoirs of a geisha
- Chicago
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Robert Doyle Marshall Jr. (born October 17, 1960) is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer. He is best known for directing the film version of the Broadway musical Chicago, which was based on the play of the same name by playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins. His work on the film earned him the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. He also directed the films Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Into the Woods, Mary Poppins Returns, and The Little Mermaid.
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1960 births20th-century American LGBTQ people21st-century American LGBTQ peopleAmerican fantasy film directorsAmerican gay menAmerican theatre directorsArtists from Madison, WisconsinArtists from PittsburghCarnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumniCAS Filmmaker Award honoreesDirectors Guild of America Award winnersDirectors of Best Picture Academy Award winners