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Early life

She was born in San Carlos, California, USA, as the only child of a paint store manager and a librarian. Downtown San Carlos San Carlos, Spanish for Saint Charles of Borromeo, is a city in San Mateo County, California, USA on the San Francisco Peninsula. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

Bigelow entered the cinema by way of the art world, starting her creative life as a painter. She took up formal studies at the San Francisco Art Institute for two years before winning a prestigious scholarship to the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1971. Bigelow entered the graduate film programme at Columbia University, where she studied theory and criticism. The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is an accredited undergraduate and graduate school of contemporary art located in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California, United States. ... Night view of Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ...

Career

Her first short film, The Set-Up (1978), is a 20-minute deconstruction of violence in film. Bigelow's first feature was a biker movie, The Loveless (1982), which she co-directed with Monty Montgomery. Next, she directed Near Dark (1987), which she co-scripted with Eric Red. Near Dark attracted interest from both critics and horror fans for its unusual blend of genres, bringing together the vampire movie and the western. Categories: Disambiguation | Stub | 1949 films | 1978 films | 1995 films ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Near Dark (1987) is a vampire Western film, written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow, and directed by Bigelow. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Eric Red (born Eric Joseph Durdaller on February 16, 1961, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a screenwriter and director, best known for writing the horror classics The Hitcher and Near Dark. ...

In Blue Steel (1990), Jamie Lee Curtis stars as a female rookie who is aware of her own vulnerability. Point Break (1991) stars Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent who poses as a surfer to catch a team of bank robbers. The film was trashed by most critics. Blue Steel is a 1990 feature film thriller, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown. ... Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is a two time Golden Globe-winning, and Emmy Award-nominated American film actress and a successful writer of books for children. ... —:For a surfing term, see Point break Point Break is a 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. ... Keanu Charles Reeves (pronounced in IPA: ) is a Canadian actor, born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

Her 1995 film Strange Days, written and produced by her then-ex-husband James Cameron, failed to attract a major audience. A neo-noir thriller set in Los Angeles at the turn of the millennium, the film focuses on the effects on society of a new technology that records everything a person experiences, allowing others to relive the sensations when they wear the device and play back the recordings. Set against this backdrop is a murder-mystery plot, culminating in a finale during a New Year's Eve Party involving tens of thousands of extras in and around the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The film, starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett, plays with gender stereotypes, making the lead a weak ex-cop who is heavily dependent on a strong woman. Although the action heroine is a clearly visible type in all of Cameron's films, Bigelow made this theme even more explicit, dressing Fiennes in elegant, colorful printed silk shirts while Bassett wears suits and masculine leather outfits. Strange Days is the title of a 1995 science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by her ex-husband James Cameron with the assistance of Jay Cocks. ... James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a three-time Academy Award winning director, producer and screenwriter. ... The top portion of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel The Westin Bonaventure Hotel is the largest hotel in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is 367 feet (112 meters) tall and has 35 floors. ... Ralph Fiennes, (IPA: ), born 22 December 1962 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England), is a Tony Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Genie Award-nominated English actor. ... Bassett and husband Courtney Vance Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe winning American actor who has built her career with biographical film roles portraying women in American culture. ...

Based on Anita Shreve's novel of the same name, Bigelow's 2000 film The Weight of Water is a portrait of two women trapped in suffocating relationships. The film is a departure in some ways for Bigelow in that it lacks the kinetic action and technical dazzle of her previous films. Like her other work, The Weight of Water shows her continued fascination with families. Anita Shreve is an American author. ... The Weight of Water is a popular novel by Anita Shreve, published in 1997. ... The Weight of Water is a 2000 film based off the novel of the same name by Anita Shreve. ...

Her latest film was the 2002 K-19: The Widowmaker. Starring Harrison Ford, it's about a group of men aboard the Soviet Union's first nuclear powered submarine. Despite an action-packed storyline and attention to detail (also a trait of former-husband James Cameron), the film sank without a trace at the box office. Bigelow has not directed a film since. K-19: The Widowmaker is a movie released July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine K-19. ... Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...

Her TV credits include episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street (1997-1998), the post-Twin Peaks TV series Wild Palms (1993), and several others. She also directed the music video for the New Order song "Touched by the Hand of God." Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Twin Peaks is an American Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody and Golden Globe-winning serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, which first aired in the United States on April 8, 1990 and ended on June 10, 1991. ... Wild Palms is a six hour mini-series, which first aired in 1993 on the ABC Network in the United States. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, electronic drums), and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers). ...

Personal life

Besides being a director, Bigelow has also modelled for a Gap ad, as well as acting in Born in Flames (1983). Gap Inc. ... Born In Flames is set in New York City, in a hypothetical post-socialist United States. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...

Bigelow was married to fellow director James Cameron from 1989 - 1991. James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a three-time Academy Award winning director, producer and screenwriter. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...

Filmography

• The Set-Up (1978)
• The Loveless (1982)
• Near Dark (1987)
• Blue Steel (1990)
• Point Break (1991)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-99) TV Series (Episode: "Fallen Heroes: Part 1", "Fallen Heroes: Part 2", "Lines of Fire")
• Wild Palms (1993) TV Series (Episode: 4)
• Strange Days (1995)
• The Weight of Water (2000)
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Categories: Disambiguation | Stub | 1949 films | 1978 films | 1995 films ... Near Dark (1987) is a vampire Western film, written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow, and directed by Bigelow. ... Blue Steel is a 1990 feature film thriller, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown. ... —:For a surfing term, see Point break Point Break is a 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... Wild Palms is a six hour mini-series, which first aired in 1993 on the ABC Network in the United States. ... Strange Days is the title of a 1995 science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by her ex-husband James Cameron with the assistance of Jay Cocks. ... The Weight of Water is a 2000 film based off the novel of the same name by Anita Shreve. ... K-19: The Widowmaker is a movie released July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine K-19. ...

See also

• List of female directors

This is a list of female motion picture and television directors. ...

External links

• Kathryn Bigelow at the Internet Movie Database