Robin Stender Swicord was born on October 23,1952 and is an American screenwriter, film director, and playwright, best known for literary adaptations.
14 Facts About Robin Swicord
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Robin Swicord wrote and directed the 2007 film The Jane Austen Book Club.
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Robin Swicord is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Directors.
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Robin Swicord's father was in the military, so the family moved often and she spent a large part of her childhood in Barcelona, Spain, until eventually settling in Florida.
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Robin Swicord said she always wrote as a child, and that later as she continued writing in college, became interested in screenplays because they were visual in nature.
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Robin Swicord graduated from Florida State University, where she double-majored in English and Theater, with an emphasis on stagecraft.
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Robin Swicord gave her a script called Stock Cars for Christ, which was sold to MGM, a job that required that she move to Los Angeles.
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Robin Swicord worked with her husband, Nicholas Kazan, on the screenplay to Matilda, adapted from the Roald Dahl book, a children's book the couple loved reading to their daughters.
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Robin Swicord wrote the screenplay for Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel The Jane Austen Book Club and directed the film, which was released in the United States on September 21,2007.
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For 2005's Memoirs of a Geisha, Robin Swicord worked collaboratively with director Rob Marshall to adapt Arthur Golden's novel.
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Robin Swicord was able to use Golden's original research and unedited manuscripts to construct the screenplay, which won a Golden Satellite Award for best adapted screenplay.
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For over 10 years, Swicord worked on the screen adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story of the same name from F Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age.
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Robin Swicord said that the adaptation was so loose that she felt that her work almost became an original screenplay.
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In 1984, Robin Swicord married screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, who is the son of director Elia Kazan.