Tamara Jenkins was born on May 2,1962 and is an American filmmaker and occasional actress.
11 Facts About Tamara Jenkins
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Tamara Jenkins is best known for her feature films Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages, and Private Life.
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Tamara Jenkins's father is Jewish, and her mother is Italian American.
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Tamara Jenkins lived in Beverly Hills with her father and brothers, and attended Beverly Hills High for a year and a half.
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Tamara Jenkins enrolled in the graduate filmmaking program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the 1990s.
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Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, Tamara Jenkins attended the Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Filmmakers Lab.
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Tamara Jenkins began her career with a short film, 1991's Fugitive Love, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Tamara Jenkins took a nearly decade-long hiatus to complete her next feature film.
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Shortly after her marriage, Tamara Jenkins went to Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to work on the screenplay that would eventually become 2007's The Savages.
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Additionally, Tamara Jenkins built upon her theater work at The New Group, departing from her previously straight dramas to something far more absurd.
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Tamara Jenkins was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.