Sean Gullette
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| Born | Sean Leland Sebastian Gullette June 4, 1968 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, director, producer. |
| Years active | 1998—present |
Sean Gullette (born June 4, 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a writer, actor, and filmmaker.
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[edit] Biography
He was born in Boston and attended public schools and Harvard, where he acted in theater and films and directed plays.
Gullette lives in Tangier, Morocco, and in addition to his film work is the founder of the 212 Society, a US non-profit which supports cultural and educational projects in Morocco, including The Cinematheque de Tanger and Darna. The 212 Society and takes its name from the 212 telephone codes of its home city and adoptive country.
He is represented by Craig Cohen, of Chemistry; his agent for acting in Europe is Juanita Fallag of Artistes de Cinema et Theatre, Paris.
Gullette and photographer Yto Barrada have a baby daughter, Vega Violet.
[edit] Acting
His professional work in film began in 1998, when he co-wrote and played the lead role in the award-winning Pi, directed by longtime collaborator Darren Aronofsky. He has since played principal and supporting roles in some twenty films including Brad Anderson's Happy Accidents (with Vincent D'Onofrio and Marisa Tomei) and Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (with Jennifer Connelly), the German film Toskana Karrussel (with Susanna Lothar) and as a guest actor on network TV dramas. His occasional theater work has included the lead in the New York premiere of Susan Sandler's If I Were a Train.
In 2010 he played principal roles in Blue Ridge, directed by Vincent Sweeney, and Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore, with Nikolai Kinski and Morjana Alaoui, directed by Michael Dreher.
Gullette is rumored to be in talks to play the lead role in Tula Station, directed by Sergio Maroquin, from the award-winning novel by David Toscana, and the lead role in Lilith, a thriller from French director Fabien Martorell.
Gullette's spoken word piece is featured on the track "Song of Alice" from Israeli-French singer Keren Ann's fourth album, Nolita (2004) on Blue Note/Capitol/EMI Records.
He recorded vocal pieces for Northern Irish DJ and musician David Holmes's album Bow Down to the Exit Sign.
[edit] Screenwriting and filmmaking
His feature film screenwriting projects have included Trinity,Conviction, Monopolis and Kilroy. He wrote and is a producer of Thanksgiving, starring Yolonda Ross, James Urbaniak and Seymour Cassel. He wrote "New York Stories" for Donna Karan's DKNY, and directed the "Von Hummer the 1st" series of promotional spots for VH1, starring James Urbaniak. He produced Nicole Zaray's gender-inverted short film Joe's Day, featuring Deborah Harry. He has also consulted on screenplays for Warner Bros., Paramount, and independent productions. In 2009 Gullette adapted Nobel-Prize winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe's novel Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, for a French-Japanese co-production to be directed by Olivier Megaton. He produced The 8 with Sarah Riggs and Blaire Dessent; the film was selected for the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
Gullette wrote and directed Traitors (30 mins) "a night in the lives of an all-girl punk band as they illicitly shoot their first music video on the streets of Tangier." The film premiered at the 2011 New York Film Festival and the Sharjah Biennial.
Sean Gullette was announced at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival as the writer-director of Tangier, a film in-development set to star Emile Hirsch, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jeremy Irons, and Tony Shalhoub. Tangier will be produced by Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures.
[edit] Other writing
Gullette's essays, journalism and fiction have been published in magazines including The Face, Spy, Slate, Bidoun, Brill's Content, Gear, Entertainment Weekly, and KGB magazine (which he founded as editor and publisher in 1991.) His essay "Mile High" appears in the NYU Press' book 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, and his essay "Notes" appears in the Springer-Verlag anthology Art, Technology, and Cinema.
