Profile
Woody Allen
Actor + Writer + Director
Male
Born
Dec 1, 1935
Age
77
Hometown
Brooklyn
Alma Mater
New York University
Other Names
Konigsberg, Allan...
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright, whose career spans over half a century. He began as a comedy writer in the 1950s, penning jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of… Read More
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Romance
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Harlene RosenMarried 1954 - 1959
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Harlene Rosen KonigsbergMarried 1953 - 1957
Family
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Woody Allen
Age 77
parents
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Martin KönigsbergFather, d.2001
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Netty CherrieMother, d.2002
siblings
children
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Moses FarrowSon, Age 35
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Dylan O'Sullivan FarrowSon, Age 27
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Manzie AllenSon
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Bechet AllenSon
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Francis Levy: Cialis: Now And ThenHuffington Post - 1 day ago
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'Nikolai And The Others': Theater Review New York Daily NewsGoogle News - May 07, 2013
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R. Clifton Spargo: 12 Things You Didn't Know About F. Scott And Zelda FitzgeraldHuffington Post - May 06, 2013
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Woody Allen Casts Stars Colin Firth, Emma StoneSeattle Pi - Apr 30, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1935
Birth
Born on December 1, 1935.
1943
7 Years Old
Allen has a sister, Letty, who was born in 1943, and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn.
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TEENAGE
TWENTIES
1961
25 Years Old
In 1961, he started a new career as a stand-up comedian, debuting in a Greenwich Village club called the Duplex.
1964
28 Years Old
Examples of Allen's standup act can be heard on the albums Standup Comic and Nightclub Years 1964–1968 (including his classic routine entitled "The Moose").
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THIRTIES
He also became a successful Broadway playwright and wrote Don't Drink the Water in 1966.
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Because he was not particularly happy with the 1969 film version of his play, in 1994, Allen directed and starred in a third version for television, with Michael J. Fox and Mayim Bialik.
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1971
35 Years Old
From 1971 to 1975, Allen co-wrote, directed, and starred in Bananas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Sleeper, and Love and Death.
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FORTIES
1976
40 Years Old
In 1976, he starred in The Front (directed by Martin Ritt) a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s.
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1980
44 Years Old
Around 1980, Allen began a relationship with actress Mia Farrow, who had leading roles in several of his movies from 1982 to 1992.
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FIFTIES
1989
53 Years Old
In 1989, Allen teamed up with directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese to make New York Stories, an anthology film about New Yorkers.
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For example, in 1991, The New York Times described Allen's family life by reporting, "Few married couples seem more married.
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His 1992 film Shadows and Fog is a black-and-white homage to the German expressionists and features the music of Kurt Weill.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2004
68 Years Old
Also that year, reports of Allen writing the book for a musical based on Bullets Over Broadway surfaced, but no show ever formulated. In 2004, Allen's first full-length play since 1981, A Second Hand Memory, was directed by Allen and enjoyed an extended run Off-Broadway.
2005
69 Years Old
In a 2005 Vanity Fair interview, Allen estimated that, despite the scandal's damage to his reputation, Farrow's discovery of Allen's attraction to Soon-Yi Previn by finding nude photographs of her was "just one of the fortuitous events, one of the great pieces of luck in my life...
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2007
71 Years Old
In June 2007, it was announced that Allen would make two more creative debuts in the theater, directing a work that he did not write and directing an opera – a re-interpretation of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi for the Los Angeles Opera – which debuted at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on September 6, 2008.
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Released in 2009, Whatever Works, described as a dark comedy, follows the story of a botched suicide attempt turned messy love triangle.
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2010
74 Years Old
It was released theatrically in the US on September 23, 2010, following a Cannes debut in May 2010, and a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2010.
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It debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011.
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His next film, To Rome with Love, was a Rome-set comedy released in 2012.
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