Sam Mendes

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-08-01 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Sam Mendes

Biography

Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up i...

Production

2005

Jarhead

as Director

1999

American Beauty

as Director

2002

2008

2022

Empire of Light

as Director

2022

Empire of Light

as Producer

2012

Skyfall

as Director

2009

Away We Go

as Director

2017

Baby Driver

as Thanks

2015

Spectre

as Director

2022

2022

1993

Cabaret

as Director

2007

The Kite Runner

as Executive Producer

1996

Company

as Director

2002

2010

Out of the Ashes

as Executive Producer

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Beautiful Ruins

as Producer

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2025

Hamnet

as Producer

2006

Starter for 10

as Executive Producer

2019

1917

as Screenplay

2019

1917

as Director

2008

2024

The End

as Executive Producer

2019

1917

as Producer

2025

What They Found

as Director

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