Todd Haynes

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1961-01-02 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Todd Haynes

Biography

Todd Haynes (/heɪnz/; born January 2, 1961; Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles. Haynes first gained public attention with his controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), which chronicles singer Karen Carpenter's life and death, using Barbie dolls as actors. Superstar became a cult classic. Haynes's feature directorial debut, Poison (1991), a provocative exploration of AIDS-era queer perceptions and subversions, established him as a figure of a new transgress...

Production

1998

Velvet Goldmine

as Director

2007

I'm Not There

as Director

2007

I'm Not There

as Screenplay

2002

Far from Heaven

as Director

1995

Safe

as Writer

1995

Safe

as Director

2008

Wendy and Lucy

as Executive Producer

1991

Poison

as Director

1991

Poison

as Writer

2023

May December

as Director

1993

1993

1994

2015

Carol

as Director

2013

Six by Sondheim

as Director

1989

He Was Once

as Producer

1989

He Was Once

as Production Manager

1978

The Suicide

as Director

1978

The Suicide

as Screenplay

1978

The Suicide

as Producer

2013

Buoy

as Executive Producer

2014

Night Moves

as Executive Producer

2006

Quinceañera

as Executive Producer

2011

Meek's Cutoff

as Executive Producer

2023

Image Book

as Director

1998

Velvet Goldmine

as Screenplay

1998

2016

Certain Women

as Executive Producer

2017

Wonderstruck

as Director

1985

Tommy's

as Producer

2002

Madame Satã

as Thanks

1991

Goo

as Director

1989

La Divina

as Co-Producer

1989

La Divina

as Assistant Director

2014

Still Alice

as Thanks

2023

Earthlings

as Executive Producer

1988

Cause and Effect

as Producer

1990

Anemone Me

as Producer

1997

Office Killer

as Co-Writer

1991

Poison

as Editor

2021

2021

2019

Dark Waters

as Director

2019

2006

Old Joy

as Executive Producer

1986

2002

2007

1989

Natural History

as Producer

1984

1988

Muddy Hands

as Producer

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