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Martha Coolidge

Martha Coolidge

Highest Rated: 100% Half the Picture (2018)

Lowest Rated: 4% Material Girls (2006)

Birthday: Aug 17, 1946

Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

A proficient director of mainstream Hollywood fare, Martha Coolidge began her career in her native Connecticut as a stage actress appearing with a local theater company. While attending the Rhode Island School of Design, she began to make films and found her true calling, turning out six student films. After further studies at NYC's School of Visual Arts and at Columbia University, she landed her first professional gig as a writer and producer of the Canadian daily children's show "Magic Tom." Returning to the USA, Coolidge enrolled at NYU's Institute of Film and Television and went on to turn out several award-winning documentary portraits, including two of family members, "David: On and Off" (1972), about her brother, and "Old Fashioned Woman" (1974), about her grandmother. These, along with the pseudo-documentary "Not a Pretty Picture" (1976) which reconstructed her high school date rape, helped establish her reputation as a filmmaker.

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LOST IN YONKERS, director Martha Coolidge, Neil Simon, Mercedes Ruehl on set, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures THE PRINCE AND ME, Luke Mably, Julia Stiles, Martha Coolidge, 2004, (c) Paramount LOST IN YONKERS, director Martha Coolidge, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures OUT TO SEA, Director Martha Coolidge, on set, 1997, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. LOST IN YONKERS, Richard Dreyfuss, Martha Coolidge, director and Producer Ray Stark, 1993 RAMBLING ROSE, director Martha Coolidge, 1991, ©New Line Cinema / OUT TO SEA, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, director Martha Coolidge, on set, 1997, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. RAMBLING ROSE, Laura Dern, director Martha Coolidge, producer Renny Harlin, on set, 1991. ©New Line Cinema
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
73% 83% I'll Find You Director - 2019
100% 68% Half the Picture Self $21.6K 2018
No Score Yet 48% Nora Roberts' Tribute Director - 2009
No Score Yet 59% An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong Director - 2009
4% 44% Material Girls Director $11.4M 2006
No Score Yet 38% 12 Days of Christmas Eve Director - 2004
29% 59% The Prince & Me Director $28.2M 2004
No Score Yet 33% The Flamingo Rising Director - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ponder Heart Director - 2001
No Score Yet 69% Rip Girls Executive Producer - 2000
60% 83% If These Walls Could Talk 2 Director - 2000
83% 81% Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Director - 1999
36% 52% Out to Sea Director $28.0M 1997
13% 52% Three Wishes Director $6.7M 1995
53% 33% Angie Director $9.3M 1994
71% 77% Lost in Yonkers Director $9.1M 1993
No Score Yet 27% Crazy in Love Director - 1992
100% 54% Rambling Rose Director $6.3M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bare Essentials Director - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trenchcoat in Paradise Director - 1989
No Score Yet 61% Plain Clothes Director $222.7K 1988
77% 83% Real Genius Director $130.8K 1985
No Score Yet 47% Joy of Sex Director - 1984
84% 72% Valley Girl Director - 1983
100% No Score Yet Not a Pretty Picture Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer,
Film Editing 		- 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Old Fashioned Woman Director - 1974

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 90% Siren Director 2018
No Score Yet 79% Madam Secretary Director 2014
29% 36% Killer Women Director 2014
36% 40% Cult Director 2013
No Score Yet 81% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Director,
Writer 		2006-2007 2010-2011
52% 50% Shark Director 2007
33% No Score Yet Related Director 2006
70% 79% Sex and the City Director 2002
13% No Score Yet Leap Years Director 2001-2002