Matt Reeves
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| Matt Reeves | |
| Born | Matthew George Reeves April 27, 1966 Rockville Centre, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation | film director, screenwriter, producer |
Matthew George Reeves (born April 27, 1966 in Rockville Centre, New York) is an American film writer, director and producer.
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Reeves was born in Rockville Centre, New York, and raised in Los Angeles. He began making movies at eight years old, directing friends with a wind-up camera. Reeves met J.J. Abrams when both were 13 years old, and both were having their short films aired on a cable access channel. Reeves and Abrams became friends and eventually co-created the TV series Felicity.
Reeves attended the University of Southern California. There, he produced an award-winning[citation needed] student film titled "Mr. Petrified Forest", which helped him acquire an agent, and also co-wrote a script that eventually became Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. After graduating, he co-wrote The Pallbearer, which also became his professional directorial debut.
In addition to co-creating Felicity and directing a handful of that series' episodes, including the pilot, Reeves has helmed the occasional episode of other TV series, including Homicide: Life on the Street and Relativity.[1]
More recently, Reeves appeared as an actor in the 2008 Sci Fi Pictures original film, Blood Monkey, and directed the Abrams-produced monster movie, Cloverfield.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Future Shock (1993), director, "Mr. Petrified Forest" segment
- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), writer
- The Pallbearer (1996), director and writer
- Felicity (1998-2002), co-creator and writer
- The Yards (2000), writer
- Cloverfield (2008), director
- The Invisible Woman (2009), director and writer
- Let Me In (2010), director and writer
