Barry Sonnenfeld
- Born: 1 Apr, 1953
Loud, brash, outspoken and highly strung, Barry Sonnenfeld embodies everything expected of a Hollywood director, and yet this man described by colleague Ethan Coen to NEWSWEEK as "an urban neurotic" is also meek and nebbishy, adjectives hardly invoking images of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock or John Huston. Go figure how this only child of overprotective Jewish parents ("My mother said if I went to what she called 'sleep-away school'--what others call 'college'--she would commit suicide") could grow up to have his finger on the pulse of what is hip and cool, but that is exactly the case for this A-list director whose sterling reputation attracts high caliber talent anxious to work with him. Although he did not know fellow NYU classmate Joel Coen while they were in scho...
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FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Sonny Sonnenfeld:
- mother Kelly Sonnenfeld: taught at Sonnenfeld's elementary school ("My mother took me to eat lunch with the teachers every day. I didn't eat with the other children until I was in the sixth grade")
- step-daughter Sasha:
- step-daughter Amy:
- daughter Chloe Sonnenfeld: born c. 1993
- wife Susan Ringo: married c. 1989 during the wrap party for "Miller's Crossing" (1990) on a boat in the middle of the Mississippi River; played small role in "For Love or Money" (1993) and served as associate producer on "Get Shorty" (1995)
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