Roger Kumble was born on May 28,1966 and is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright.
10 Facts About Roger Kumble
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Roger Kumble graduated from Northwestern University in 1988, where he wrote for the "Waa Mu" show.
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Roger Kumble began his career as a playwright and director in 1993 with the Hollywood satire "Pay or Play", which garnered him the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Comic Writing.
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In 2003, Roger Kumble completed his Hollywood trilogy with the critically acclaimed "Turnaround", again starring David Schwimmer, which sold out its entire run in Los Angeles.
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Roger Kumble returned to the theater in 2011 with his all female play "Girls Talk" starring Brooke Shields and Constance Zimmer.
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Roger Kumble made his feature-film-directorial debut with 1999's Sony Pictures box-office hit, Cruel Intentions, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair.
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Roger Kumble's screenplay transposed the French novel Dangerous Liaisons to modern New York.
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Roger Kumble followed with the Sony Pictures comedy The Sweetest Thing, starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Jason Bateman and Thomas Jane, and New Line Cinema's Just Friends, starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Amy Smart.
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Roger Kumble directed Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symone and Donny Osmond in Disney's 2008 successful family-comedy College Road Trip.
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Roger Kumble followed that with 2010's Furry Vengeance, starring Brendan Fraser and Brooke Shields.