Andy Tennant (born in 1955) is an American dancer, screenwriter, and film and television director. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Don Tennant, a legendary creative advertising talent with Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago. As a boy, Andy spent his summers on Old MIssion Peninsula in northern Michigan and at Camp Minocqua in northern Wisconsin. He graduated from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 1973. He studied theater under John Houseman at University of Southern California. He is married to Sharon Johnson-Tennant. They have four children, including triplets. Hitch is his highest-grossing film. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Incorporated Village in 1924. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the downtown district of Los Angeles, California, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ...

Films directed by Andy Tennant

• Hitch (2005)
• Sweet Home Alabama (2002) - Tennant also wrote the film.
• Anna and the King (1999)
• Ever After (1998)
• Fools Rush In (1996)
• It Takes Two (also known as Me and My Shadow) (1995)

Hitch is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant. ... Sweet Home Alabama is a 2002 film that tells the story of Melanie (Reese Witherspoon), a young woman who goes back to her home in Alabama to get divorced from her childhood sweetheart. ... Anna and the King is a 1999 motion picture loosely based on the true story of Anna Leonowens, who was an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the 19th_century. ... Prince Henry and Danielle Ever After: a Cinderella Story is a 1998 film adaptation of the romantic fairy tale Cinderella, directed by Andy Tennant and starring Drew Barrymore in the title role. ... Fools Rush In is a Romantic comedy starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek. ... It Takes Two was a 1995 film starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. ...

Television programs directed by Andy Tennant

• Sliders
• South of Sunset
• The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (two episodes)
• The Amy Fisher Story
• Desperate Choices: To Save My Child
• Keep the Change
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose (five episodes)
• Ferris Bueller
• The Wonder Years (episodes "Heart Break" and "Math Class")

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Trivia

• Ever After is the only film that Tennant directed that is produced in Super 35 mm film cinematographic format. It Takes Two and Fools Rush In were produced in spherical cinematographic format. The other films directed by Tennant were produced in anamorphic cinematographic format, but IMDb claims that Hitch was filmed in Super 35 mm film format.

Tennant's first acting role in a motion picture was in 1980 as a high school student, Melio, on an all-night scavenger hunt in a surreal film, "Midnight Madness" which cameo'd cowboy-hatted Pee Wee Herman as a pin ball arcade manager; Andy's first big break in films came when he was cast as a dancer and chorus member in the movies "Grease" and "Grease II." If you watch for him in the first movie, he's the one in the plaid windbreaker, and at one point, is one of several high schoolers oogling up at Olivia Newton-John from under the football stadium seats during one of the musical numbers. Comparing the film area of Super 35 to CinemaScope, standard widescreen and Techniscope. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ...

External links

• IMDb entry of Andy Tennant