17 Facts About Jamie Babbit

Jamie Babbit directed the films But I'm a Cheerleader, The Quiet and Itty Bitty Titty Committee.

Jamie Babbit grew up in Cleveland with her father, a lawyer and law school professor, and her mother who ran a treatment program for teenagers with drug and alcohol problems, before her death in 2006.

Jamie Babbit studied West African Studies at Barnard College and began taking film classes at New York University during her summer vacations.

In 1996, after working on If These Walls Could Talk, where she met her future partner Andrea Sperling, Jamie Babbit got a job as script supervisor on David Fincher's film The Game.

Jamie Babbit followed this with 1999 comedy short Sleeping Beauties.

Jamie Babbit gave Babbit about 6,000 feet of 35 mm film.

Jamie Babbit's editor gave her free use of an Avid editing machine.

In 1999, Jamie Babbit directed her first feature film, But I'm a Cheerleader.

The film was inspired by an article that Jamie Babbit read about a man who had been sent to a similar camp.

Jamie Babbit wanted this film to have characters that reminded her of herself and the people around her, since there was minimal representation of feminine lesbians in the media.

Jamie Babbit aimed to make it a comedy because the few lesbian movies produced before hers were serious, somber films.

Jamie Babbit appeared in This Film Is Not Yet Rated discussing this film and her struggle against an NC-17 rating.

In 2020, for the film's 20th anniversary, Jamie Babbit's director's cut was released via video on demand.

In 2011 Jamie Babbit began production on Breaking the Girls, a thriller film written by Mark Distefano and Guinevere Turner.

Jamie Babbit enjoys working in television because it helps her to "keep her skills up".

Jamie Babbit has said that because television directors have less overall responsibility than film directors, she is able to concentrate on working with actors.

Jamie Babbit has two daughters, Finley and Ryder, with her former partner, producer Andrea Sperling.