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Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

Highest Rated: 93% Sneakerella (2022)

Lowest Rated: 17% Careful What You Wish For (2015)

Birthday: Not Available

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Birthplace: Stony Brook, New York, USA

In order to get over pre-teen shyness, Liz Allen was enrolled in a drama program by her mother, and the experience planted the seeds for her future interest in show business. After graduating from Cornell University, Allen moved to New York and tried to find a way to break into the film industry, lucking into a job as assistant to "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead" producer Cary Woods. Allen then enrolled in the University of Southern California's film school, where she shot her name-making short film "Eyeball Eddie." The dark, offbeat story about a young wrestler who uses his glass eye to unnerve opponents proved that Allen could tackle subjects beyond those traditionally assigned to female directors. Her feature debut was the ill-received 2006 mermaid family film "Aquamarine," but her follow-up in 2010 was the more successful "Ramona and Beezus," an adaptation of Beverly Cleary's classic series about young girl Ramona Quimby. Allen had loved the books since reading them at age five while down with chicken pox, and this background helped her successfully answer Cleary's barrage of questions before shooting started. Allen's confidence and familiarity with the material finally convinced the reluctant author to let her work come to the screen. After completing the film, demand for Allen on television productions exploded, leading her to helm episodes of popular dramas like "Gossip Girl," the relaunched "90210" franchise, and supernatural teen fantasy "The Vampire Diaries."

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Highest rated movies

93% 50% Sneakerella Watchlist
70% 71% Ramona and Beezus
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53% 62% Aquamarine
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33% 69% Purple Hearts
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17% 61% Careful What You Wish For Watchlist
Eyeball Eddie
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
33% 69% Purple Hearts Director,
Executive Producer
- 2022
93% 50% Sneakerella Director - 2022
17% 61% Careful What You Wish For Director - 2015
70% 71% Ramona and Beezus Director $26.2M 2010
53% 62% Aquamarine Director $18.6M 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eyeball Eddie Director,
Producer
- 2000

TV

Credit
70% 66% Found Director 2024
No Score Yet 69% Hawaii Five-0 Director 2018
No Score Yet 71% MacGyver Director 2017
No Score Yet 76% The Arrangement Director 2017
No Score Yet 62% Mistresses Director 2015
57% 74% Star-Crossed Director 2014
61% 84% Franklin & Bash Director 2012
No Score Yet 38% 90210 Director 2011
86% 72% The Vampire Diaries Director 2010