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.

Weisz was born in New York, New York. He is the son of actress Susan Kohner novelist/fashion designer John Weitz. Paul Kohner and Lupita Tovar are his grandparents. Chris Weitz graduated with a degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) where he was a contemporary of Rachel Weisz[link].

External links

• [Interview]
• [Times story on film 'controversy']

 

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