Chris Weitz
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Chris Weitz (born 1970 in New York City, New York) is the producer and director (along with brother Paul Weitz) of American Pie, About a Boy, and other movies.
He is also credited with writing Antz and the screenplay for About a Boy. He has written and is directing a film based on the book trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
He's also a sometime actor, playing the lead role of Chuck in the 2000 comedy drama movie Chuck & Buck and a bland suburbanite in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Weitz was born in New York, New York. He is the son of actress Susan Kohner and novelist/fashion designer John Weitz. Paul Kohner and Lupita Tovar are his grandparents. He graduated with a degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) where he was a contemporary of Rachel Weisz[1].