1. Kimberly Ane Peirce was born on September 8,1967 and is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry, which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
17 Facts About Kimberly Peirce
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When Kimberly Peirce was three, she and her family moved to New York City, and at age eleven, they moved to Miami, Florida, where she eventually graduated from Miami Sunset Senior High School.
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Kimberly Peirce then moved to New York City to work as a photography intern for Time magazine under photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Kimberly Peirce returned to the University of Chicago to graduate with a degree in English and Japanese Literature.
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Kimberly Peirce then enrolled at Columbia University to pursue an MFA in film.
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Kimberly Peirce won honors as Best Debut Director from the National Board of Review and Best New Filmmaker from the Boston Society of Film Critics.
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In 2005, inspired by the real-life stories of American soldiers, including her own brother, fighting in Iraq and coming home, Kimberly Peirce began work on Stop-Loss.
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Kimberly Peirce traveled the country interviewing soldiers about their experiences and worked with novelist and screenwriter Mark Richard to turn the research into a screenplay.
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Kimberly Peirce was honored with the Hamilton Behind the Camera True-Grit Directing Award as well as the Andrew Sarris Directing Awards for the film.
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Shortly after the film's release, Kimberly Peirce spoke before the National Press Club and members of Congress on behalf of Soldiers and the Stop-Loss Compensation Act, which financially compensated soldiers for multiple tours of duty served because of the stop-loss policy.
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Kimberly Peirce directed a remake of the 1976 horror film Carrie, which was released on October 18,2013.
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Kimberly Peirce was in negotiations to direct and executive-produce The Enclave, a limited series for USA Network written by Andre Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton.
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Kimberly Peirce co-wrote the script for Silent Star, a murder mystery about the 1922 death of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor and the scandals that nearly destroyed the film industry.
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Kimberly Peirce is set to direct a new Amazon movie titled This is Jane.
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Kimberly Peirce is a founding member of ReFrame, an industry-wide effort to end discrimination against women and people of color in Hollywood as well as the head of the Diversity Committee for Directors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Kimberly Peirce gave the 2014 Yale Transgender Week keynote, the 2015 Outfest keynote, and the 2016 AFI Keynotes, and spoke at the 2017 Women's March in Park City.
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Kimberly Peirce received the GLAAD Media, Lambda Legal Defense, People for the American Way, Lesbian Anti-Violence Project and the 2013 OUTFEST Career Achievement Awards.