Roger Avary
Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer
Who is Roger Avary?
Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Roger Roberts Avary was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, in Canada on, to a Brazilian-raised father, who worked as a mining engineer, and a German mother, who worked as a physical therapist. The film follows an American safe-cracker (Eric Stoltz) who travels to Paris to aid a childhood friend (Jean-Hugues Anglade) with a bank heist. Avary has also directed films such as Killing Zoe (1993) and The Rules of Attraction (2002), and wrote the screenplays for Silent Hill (2006) and Beowulf (2007). In 2022, Avary reunited with Tarantino to launch a podcast called The Video Archives Podcast. They moved to Oracle, Arizona, and later Torrance, California, before settling in Manhattan Beach. In 1993, Avary directed his feature film debut with Killing Zoe.
Along the way he meets and befriends a sex worker (Julie Delpy) whose fate becomes tied with the crime.
Historical significance
He is best known for his work with Quentin Tarantino on the script for Pulp Fiction (1994), for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards.