Biography polanski roman

Roman Polanski (born Raymond Roman Thierry Polanski, 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish movie director, producer, writer and actor. In 2003, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist.^{[1]p148[2]p186}

Personal life

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Polanski was born in Paris, France but his family moved back to Poland in 1937.^{[3]p313[4]p250} His parents were agnostics.^[5] Because the family was Jewish,^[6] they were persecuted by the Nazis in Poland and forced to live in a ghetto.^[1]p2/4 Polanski's mother died at Auschwitz.^[7]p2 He later went to film school at Lodz ^[8] and graduated in 1959.

Polanski won many awards for his short movies and went on to make full-length movies in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Polanski's first marriage was to actress Barbara Lass in 1959; they divorced in 1961.^[9]

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