1. Alexander Simon "Sacha" Gervasi is a British director, screenwriter and former journalist.
15 Facts About Sacha Gervasi
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Sacha Gervasi's father, Sean Gervasi, was an American economist who had worked as an economic advisor to President John F Kennedy in the White House, was an expert in Yugoslav affairs and had taught at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and at the University of Paris in Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
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Sacha Gervasi's uncle, Tom Gervasi, was an expert on intelligence matters and author of the Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy and the Arsenal of Democracy series.
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Sacha Gervasi got his filmwriting start with The Big Tease, which he co-wrote with Craig Ferguson.
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Sacha Gervasi went on to pen The Terminal, made into a 2004 film directed by Steven Spielberg.
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In 2009, Sacha Gervasi presented Steven Zaillian with the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award.
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Sacha Gervasi first met Anvil on 21 September 1982 after a gig at The Marquee Club in London.
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Sacha Gervasi introduced himself to the band as "England's number one Anvil fan".
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Sacha Gervasi subsequently became a roadie for the band on their 1982,1984 and 1985 tours, and was given the nickname "teabag" by the band.
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Sacha Gervasi reunited with Anvil after a break of 20 years, and started filming a documentary about them in November 2005.
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In 2012, Sacha Gervasi directed Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma, and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh.
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Twenty-five years after meeting Villechaize, Sacha Gervasi wrote and directed My Dinner with Herve, a biopic of the actor based on the interviews conducted only days before the actor committed suicide in 1993.
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Sacha Gervasi was later a correspondent for The Washington Post and the chief of information for the Marshall Plan in Italy.
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Sacha Gervasi's grandmother was Katherine McQuiggan from Philadelphia, but his grandfather Frank remarried, to singer Georgia Gibbs, years before Gervasi was born.
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In 2010, Sacha Gervasi married British theatre producer Jessica de Rothschild, daughter of British financier Evelyn Robert de Rothschild.