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      Mira Nair

      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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      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 VANITY FAIR, Mira Nair, Julian Fellowes, 2004, (c) Focus Features VANITY FAIR, Mira Nair, 2004, (c) Focus Features THE NAMESAKE, director Mira Nair, Kal Penn, on set, 2006. ©Fox Searchlight VANITY FAIR, Mira Nair, 2004, (c) Focus Features THE NAMESAKE, director Mira Nair, on set, 2006. TM &©20th Century Fox. All rights reserved THE NAMESAKE, director Mira Nair, on set, 2006. TM &©20th Century Fox. All rights reserved THE NAMESAKE, director Mira Nair, Tabu, on set, 2006. TM &©20th Century Fox. All rights reserved
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Ayiti mon amour Executive Producer - 2016
      94% 86% Queen of Katwe Director $8.9M 2016
      57% 61% The Reluctant Fundamentalist Director $519.5K 2012
      19% 31% Amelia Director $14.2M 2009
      No Score Yet 20% 8 Director - 2008
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Migration Director,
      Executive Producer       		- 2008
      85% 79% The Namesake Director,
      Producer       		$13.6M 2006
      51% 50% Vanity Fair Director $16.1M 2004
      77% 66% 11-09-01: September 11 Director $120.0K 2002
      75% 63% Hysterical Blindness Director - 2002
      95% 87% Monsoon Wedding Director,
      Producer       		$13.9M 2001
      No Score Yet 100% My Own Country Director,
      Producer       		- 1998
      40% 71% Kama Sutra Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		$4.1M 1996
      60% 58% The Perez Family Director $2.8M 1995
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat Director - 1993
      92% 64% Mississippi Masala Director,
      Producer       		$7.3M 1991
      93% 93% Salaam Bombay! Director,
      Producer       		- 1988
      No Score Yet No Score Yet So Far From India Director - 1983

      TV

      Credit
      38% 49% National Treasure: Edge of History Executive Producer 2022-2023
      70% 58% A Suitable Boy Director 2020-2021
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter Guest 2017
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Discovery Atlas Narrator 2007