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Catherine Hardwicke Biography

Birth Name:
Helen Catherine Hardwicke
Birth Place:
Cameron, Texas, United States
Profession
Director, set designer, art director, screenwriter

Fast Facts

  • For her architecture thesis project at the University of Texas, dressed up as a building and pulled off layers to demonstrate the evolution of design
  • Got her start in the film business working as production designer on such movies as The Newton Boys (1998), Three Kings (1999) and Vanilla Sky (2001)
  • Collaborated with the then 14-year-old Nikki Reed to write Thirteen (2003), which was her directorial debut
  • Her 2006 biblical film The Nativity encountered controversy when 16-year-old star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who plays Jesus' mother, Mary, announced she was pregnant two months before the movie's release
  • Delivered the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film with a female director with 2008's Twilight

Awards

  • 2004Independent Spirit Awards-Best First Feature: nominated
  • 2004Independent Spirit Awards-Best First Screenplay: nominated
  • 2003Sundance Film Festival-Directing Award: Dramatic: winner

Relationships

  • Jack Hardwicke -- Brother
  • John Benjamin Hardwicke III -- Father
  • Jamee Hardwicke -- Mother
  • Irene Hardwicke Olivieri -- Sister