Rob Marshall
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox person Robert Doyle Marshall Jr.<ref name="all honorees">http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/getinvolved/alumniawards/all_honorees_2018june1.pdf Template:Dead link</ref> (born October 17, 1960)<ref name="filmreference">Template:Cite web</ref> is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer. He is best known for directing the film version of the Broadway musical Chicago, which was based on the play of the same name by playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins. His work on the film earned him the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. He also directed the films Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Into the Woods, Mary Poppins Returns, and The Little Mermaid.
Early life and education
Robert Doyle Marshall Jr. was born in Madison, Wisconsin.<ref name=filmreference /> His father and namesake, Robert Doyle Marshall Sr., was a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref><ref name=UPitt>Template:Cite web</ref> and his mother Anne was a teacher.<ref name="dove into"/> Like him, his younger sister Kathleen became a choreographer and director.<ref name=RawsonPPG>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1964, Robert Marshall joined the English department at the University of Pittsburgh,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Marshall family relocated to Pittsburgh.<ref name="dove into">Template:Cite web</ref> Anne would later work for Pittsburgh Public Schools and the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, and Robert would become associate professor of English and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the same university.<ref name="dove into"/>
Rob Marshall graduated from the Falk School,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and then in 1978 from Taylor Allderdice High School, into whose alumni hall of fame he later was inducted.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982,<ref name="all honorees"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Marshall worked in the Pittsburgh theatre scene, performing with such companies as Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.<ref>Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 204. Template:ISBN. Retrieved 2011-06-06</ref>
Career
Marshall went on to perform as a dancer in various Broadway shows, but suffered a herniated disc while performing in Cats and after recovering, transitioned into choreography and then directing.<ref name="Feinberg">Template:Cite news</ref>
He debuted as a director in the film industry with the TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. He went on to direct the 2002 adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162.2 million at the worldwide box office.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Marshall went on to direct the 2009 film Nine, an adaptation of the Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In August 2009, it was reported that Marshall was to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane and Geoffrey Rush,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> which opened on May 20, 2011 and grossed $1 billion worldwide.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
After working with Disney on Pirates, Marshall directed Disney's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods (2014), and produced the film under his Lucamar Productions banner.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His next film was the sequel to the 1964 film Mary Poppins, titled Mary Poppins Returns, reuniting two Into the Woods actresses: Emily Blunt as the title character and Meryl Streep in a supporting role.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
By December 2017, Disney was considering Marshall to direct the live-action/CGI adaptation of The Little Mermaid,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which he was officially confirmed to direct in December 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2024, Marshall was hired to take over for Bill Condon as director of the remake of Guys and Dolls, for which he will also co-produce and co-write the screenplay with John DeLuca, John Requa and Glenn Ficarra.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
Marshall is gay. As of at least 2007, Marshall lives in New York City with his husband, producer and choreographer John DeLuca, whom he married in 2012.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2004, they bought a $4.2 million summer home in Sagaponack, New York, part of The Hamptons.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Works
Theater
| Year | Title | Credit | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Zorba | Actor | Broadway Theatre, Broadway |
| 1984 | The Rink | Dance captain, Actor | Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway |
| 1985 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Dance captain, Actor, Assistant to the choreographer | Imperial Theatre, Broadway |
| 1987 | Blithe Spirit | Movement consultant | Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway |
| 1993 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Additional choreography | Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway |
| 1993 | She Loves Me | Musical staging | Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway |
| 1994 | Damn Yankees | Choreographer | Marquis Theatre, Broadway |
| 1995 | Company | Musical staging | Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway |
| 1995 | Victor/Victoria | Choreographer | Marquis Theatre, Broadway |
| 1996 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Choreographer | St. James Theatre, Broadway |
| 1997 | The Petrified Prince | Musical staging | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1998 | Cabaret | Co-director, Choreographer | Kit Kat Club, Broadway |
| 1998 | Little Me | Director, Choreographer | Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway |
| 2000 | Seussical | Director (uncredited) | Richard Rodgers Theatre, Broadway |
| 2014 | Cabaret | Co-director, Choreographer | Studio 54, Broadway |
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Film
| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Choreographer | Story writer |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Chicago | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:Yes | Template:No | Feature directorial debut |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | |
| 2009 | Nine | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:No | |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:No | Also musical stager |
| Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew |
Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | Making-of documentary | |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:No |
Television
| Year | Title | Director | Choreographer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts |
Template:Yes | Template:No | TV event |
| 2013 | 85th Academy Awards | Template:No | Template:Yes | TV special; Segment "All that Jazz" from Chicago |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer |
Choreographer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Victor/Victoria | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | |
| 1996 | Mrs. Santa Claus | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | |
| 1997 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella | Template:No | Template:No | Template:Yes | Also musical stager |
| 1999 | Annie | Template:Yes | Template:No | Template:Yes | |
| 2006 | Tony Bennett: An American Classic | Template:Yes | Template:Yes | Template:Yes |
Awards and nominations
Theater
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Film and television
| Year | Title | Academy Awards | BAFTA Awards | Golden Globe Awards | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominations | Wins | Nominations | Wins | Nominations | Wins | ||
| 2002 | Chicago | 13 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | Nine | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 2014 | Into the Woods | 3 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | 4 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Total | 30 | 9 | 24 | 5 | 18 | 4 | |
Directed Academy Award performances
Under Marshall's direction, these actors have received Academy Award nominations for their performances in their respective roles.
See also
References
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- 1960 births
- 20th-century American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- American theatre directors
- Artists from Madison, Wisconsin
- Artists from Pittsburgh
- Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
- CAS Filmmaker Award honorees
- Directors Guild of America Award winners
- Disney people
- American fantasy film directors
- Film directors from Pennsylvania
- Film directors from Wisconsin
- American gay men
- Helpmann Award winners
- LGBTQ people from Wisconsin
- LGBTQ theatre directors
- Living people
- Musical theatre choreographers
- People from Sagaponack, New York
- Primetime Emmy Award winners
- Taylor Allderdice High School alumni
- Directors of Best Picture Academy Award winners