1. Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones was born on 30 May 1971 and is a British film director, film producer and screenwriter.
20 Facts About Duncan Jones
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Duncan Jones directed the films Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, and Mute.
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Duncan Jones is the son of English singer-songwriter David Bowie and Cypriot-born American model, actress, and journalist Angie Bowie.
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Duncan Jones's maternal grandfather, George, was a United States Army veteran and mining engineer who ran a mill for the Cyprus Mines Corporation, while his maternal grandmother, Helena, was a naturalised Canadian.
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Duncan Jones's mother was born and raised in Cyprus, and has Polish ancestry.
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Duncan Jones's birth prompted his father to write "Kooks" for his 1971 album Hunky Dory.
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Mostly raised by his father David and his Scottish nanny, Marion Skene, Duncan Jones spent time growing up in London, Berlin, and Vevey in Switzerland.
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Duncan Jones attended the first and second grade at the Commonwealth-American School in Lausanne.
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Duncan Jones reverted to his birth name around the age of 18.
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Duncan Jones then pursued a PhD degree at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, but left before completion to attend London Film School, where he then graduated in 2001.
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Duncan Jones visited the film set of Labyrinth while his father was filming, and worked for the Jim Henson Creature Shop afterwards.
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Duncan Jones was one of many cameramen at his father's widely televised 50th birthday party directed by Englishman Tim Pope at Madison Square Garden in 1997 and at two BowieNet concerts at Roseland Ballroom in New York City in June 2000.
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Duncan Jones was the in-game cinematics director for the political simulator Republic: The Revolution, as well as scripting elements of the game.
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Duncan Jones directed the 2006 campaign for the French Connection fashion label.
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Duncan Jones directed the Summit Entertainment project Source Code, a science-fiction thriller from Vendome Pictures, which was produced by Mark Gordon.
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Duncan Jones directed and co-wrote Warcraft, based on the video game series of the same name, which was released in the summer of 2016.
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Duncan Jones had been developing the project for years and described it as a "spiritual sequel" to Moon, and was inspired by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
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On 1 October 2017, Duncan Jones announced that he and Ronquillo were expecting a second child.
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Duncan Jones announced the birth of their daughter on 18 April 2018.
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Duncan Jones named her Zowie, after his own childhood name.