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Mira Nair

Highest Rated: 95% Monsoon Wedding (2001)

Lowest Rated: 19% Amelia (2009)

Birthday: Oct 15, 1957

Birthplace: Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India

Indian born director Mira Nair began to earn critical buzz for her early documentary films, but with her feature debut "Salaam Bombay" (1988), she was catapulted into the international spotlight with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Throughout Nair's career she made films both in the United States and in India, earning independent and film festival notoriety for the colorful family ensemble "Monsoon Wedding" (2001) and the considerably grittier "Namesake" (2006), while finding success among mainstream audiences with the interracial romantic drama "Mississippi Masala" (1992), starring Denzel Washington. The common thread throughout Nair's filmmaking career was a fascination with people on the margins of society, culminating in their struggle to both conform as well as maintain their cultural identity; a struggle that the director, herself, could no doubt relate to.

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 87% Monsoon Wedding Watchlist 94% 86% Queen of Katwe Watchlist
93% 93% Salaam Bombay!
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92% 64% Mississippi Masala
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85% 79% The Namesake
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77% 66% 11-09-01: September 11
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75% 63% Hysterical Blindness
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60% 58% The Perez Family
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57% 61% The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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51% 50% Vanity Fair
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Mira Nair

Mira Nair Mira Nair Mira Nair at arrivals for QUEEN OF KATWE Premiere, El Capitan Theatre, Los Angeles, CA September 20, 2016. Photo By: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Mira Nair at arrivals for THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2013, Tribeca Performing Arts Center (BMCC TPAC), New York, NY April 22, 2013. Photo By: Gregorio T. Binuya/Everett Collection MONSOON WEDDING, director Mira Nair, 2001, (c)USA Films THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, from left: director Mira Nair, Liev Schreiber, on set, 2012. ph: Ishaan Nair/©IFC Films AMELIA, from left: Richard Gere, director Mira Nair, on set, 2009. ph: Ken Woroner/©Fox Searchlight AMELIA, from left: Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, director Mira Nair, on set, 2009. ph: Ken Woroner/©Fox Searchlight AMELIA, director Mira Nair (front), on set, 2009. ph: Ken Woroner/©Fox Searchlight VANITY FAIR, Mira Nair, 2004, (c) Focus Features View more photos

Filmography

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Ayiti mon amour 2016 Executive Producer Queen of Katwe 94% 86% 2016 Director The Reluctant Fundamentalist 57% 61% 2012 Director Amelia 19% 31% 2009 Director 8 20% 2008 Director Migration 2008 Director, Executive Producer The Namesake 85% 79% 2006 Director, Producer Vanity Fair 51% 50% 2004 Director 11-09-01: September 11 77% 66% 2002 Director Hysterical Blindness 75% 63% 2002 Director Monsoon Wedding 95% 87% 2001 Director, Producer My Own Country 100% 1998 Director, Producer Kama Sutra 42% 71% 1996 Director, Writer, Producer The Perez Family 60% 58% 1995 Director The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat 1993 Director Mississippi Masala 92% 64% 1991 Director, Producer Salaam Bombay! 93% 93% 1988 Director, Producer So Far From India 1983 Director
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