Rob Marshall

Rob Marshall born October 17 1960 is an American theater director film director and choreographer He is a sixtime Tony Award nominee Academy Award nominee Golden Globe nominee and fourtime Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture winner Chicago Marshall was born in Madison Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Awardwining TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the bestselling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi Gong Li Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross 162242962 at the worldwide box office In 2009 Marshall directed Nine an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel DayLewis Marion Cotillard Nicole Kidman Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides the fourth chapter of Disneys Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp Ian McShane Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush which is set to open on May 20 2011 Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Marshall licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia