Tate Taylor

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Tate Taylor is an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.

He was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He is a close friend of writer Kathryn Stockett, whom he has known since they were in preschool together in Jackson.^[1]

Taylor worked for 15 years in New York and Los Angeles. As of 2011 he lives on Wyolah Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi.^[2]

He debuted as a feature film director in Pretty Ugly People. He also directed the film The Help, based on Stockett's novel The Help. She gave him rights to make the film adaptation in June 2008, before the book was published.^[3]

He is set to direct Get on Up, a biopic on the singer James Brown starring Chadwick Boseman, due out for release on October 17, 2014.^[4]

Filmography

Director

Chicken Party (short) (2003)
Pretty Ugly People (2008)
The Help (2011)
Get on Up (2014)

Actor

Wannabe (2005)
Winter's Bone (2010)

References

↑ Daisy Dumas (2011-10-08). "The Help: Kathryn Stockett and Tate Taylor's friendship took the book to the big screen | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
↑ Editors, The. "The Help Director- Tate Taylor". Garden and Gun. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
↑ "Q&A: The Help hits close to home for director Tate Taylor | Arts | National Post". Arts.nationalpost.com. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
↑ http://www.collider.com/collider/?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0853238%2Fnews#!/entry/521f7820da27f5d9d013fa93

External links

Tate Taylor at the Internet Movie Database

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