13 Facts About Alexandre Rockwell

Charles Alexandre Rockwell is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and professor.

Alexandre Rockwell is best known for his independent films made in NYC with a small group of actors he met on the lower east side in the late 80s.

Alexandre Rockwell's filming style is described as purely independent in spirit and poetic in style.

Alexandre Rockwell's influences are wide-ranging, he has been quoted as saying his style is "as much the Three Stooges as it is Tarkovsky".

Alexandre Rockwell's father, Paul Rockwell, met his mother, Svetlana Ludmillia Alexeieff, when he was an American GI in Paris and they married and relocated to Boston, Massachusetts.

Alexandre Rockwell avoided college and instead moved to Paris where he would sneak into the French Cinematheque to watch up to three films a day when he was not assisting his grandfather in his studio.

Alexandre Rockwell then relocated to New York City in his early 20s where he drove a taxi and delivered seltzer water.

Alexandre Rockwell has made a number of New York indie films, most notably In the Soup, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1992, a seminal year for independent American film that presented the first feature-length films of Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Allison Anders.

Alexandre Rockwell followed up with Somebody to Love, starring Rosie Perez, Steve Buscemi, and Harvey Keitel.

Alexandre Rockwell struggled in Los Angeles while making Louis and Frank and Pete Smalls Is Dead.

Alexandre Rockwell left the west coast for New York City where he began teaching at NYU and met his present wife Karyn Parsons-Rockwell.

Since February 8,2003, Alexandre Rockwell has been married to actress Karyn Parsons, with whom he has two children.

Alexandre Rockwell currently is head of the directing program at NYU's graduate film school.