1. Fisher Stevens is a documentary filmmaker, having won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Cove.
22 Facts About Fisher Stevens
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Fisher Stevens directed the documentaries Crazy Love and Before the Flood.
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Fisher Stevens has acted in the Wes Anderson films The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch, and Asteroid City.
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Fisher Stevens was born Stephen Fisher in 1963 in Chicago, the son of Sally and Norman Fisher.
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Fisher Stevens's parents divorced when he was 13, after which he moved to New York with his mother.
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At age 16, Fisher Stevens landed his first film role, acting in the horror film The Burning.
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Fisher Stevens completed one year at New York University before deciding to pursue acting full time.
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Fisher Stevens adopted the stage name "Fisher Stevens" upon joining the Screen Actors Guild because the Guild had several existing actors named "Steven Fisher".
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Fisher Stevens co-founded the Naked Angels Theater Company with longtime friends Rob Morrow, Nicole Burdette, Pippin Parker, Charles Landry, Nancy Travis and Ned Eisenberg in 1986.
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Fisher Stevens co-founded Greene Street Films, a film production company located in Tribeca, New York City, in 1996.
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Fisher Stevens performed as Edgar Allan Poe on Lou Reed's album The Raven in 2003.
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Fisher Stevens appeared on two episodes of the television series Numbers.
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Fisher Stevens has a Broadway and Off-Broadway career spanning nearly three decades.
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Fisher Stevens had an early success in the 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy playing David Beckoff, the adopted son of Arnold Beckoff, the gay protagonist played by the show's writer Harvey Fierstein, and the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he succeeded Matthew Broderick in the starring role of Eugene Jerome.
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In 2010, Stevens co-founded a new media and documentary film company, Insurgent Media, with Andrew Karsch and Erik H Gordon.
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In June 2010, Fisher Stevens made his major theatrical directing debut with John Leguizamo's one-man show, Ghetto Klown, which eventually ran on Broadway from March to July 2011.
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Fisher Stevens directed the 2012 crime story Stand Up Guys, starring Al Pacino and Christopher Walken.
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Fisher Stevens teamed up with his longtime partner Alexis Bloom to direct the film Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.
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In 2018, Fisher Stevens had a recurring role as Hugo Baker in the second season of HBO's satirical-comedy-drama series Succession.
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Fisher Stevens was promoted to series regular in season 3.
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In 2021, Fisher Stevens directed the Apple TV drama film Palmer, starring Justin Timberlake.
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Fisher Stevens later dated longtime filmmaking partner and producer Alexis Bloom.