Rob Marshall Biography

Fast Facts

• Made home movies with his sister as a child
• As a kid, would sneak into theater dance rehearsals and observe
• Joined a local musical-theater company at age 12
• Took time off from college to join a touring company of A Chorus Line
• In the early '80s, moved to New York City, where he performed in Broadway shows and worked behind the scenes as a dance captain and assistant choreographer
• Suffered an injury while performing in Cats, so he decided to stop performing and focus on choreography before eventually moving into directing theatrical productions
• First Broadway credit as a choreographer was 1993's Kiss of a Spider Woman
• Was given the job of directing the 2002 big-budget film Chicago, even though the 1999 TV adaptation of Annie was his only Hollywood directing credit at the time