Sam Mendes

Directing · Born 1965-08-01 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

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 in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University. He began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, a centre of…

Filmography

• Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange' as Self
• Who Needs Sleep? as Self
• NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage as Self
• Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes as Self
• The Sound of 007 as Self
• Everything or Nothing as Self
• Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage as Self
• Allied Forces: Making 1917 as Self
• American Beauty: Look Closer... as Self
• A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall as Self