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Roman Polanski Fast Facts:

In 1941, his parents were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his mother died in the gas chambers.
Made his feature-film directing debut with the 1962 Polish-language thriller Knife in the Water, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Second wife Sharon Tate was eight months pregnant with their son when she was murdered by the Charles Manson cult on August 9, 1969.
Arrested in 1977 for having sex with a 13-year-old girl who was auditioning for a Vogue photo shoot. He fled the U.S. for France to avoid prison.
Received the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for Career Achievement in 1993 and the Stockholm Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

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