NAME: Woody Allen
BORN: 01/12/1935
BIRTH PLACE: Brooklyn, New York, USA


BIOGRAPHY

Woody Allen is one of only a handful of American filmmakers who can rightly be labelled as an auteur.

Allen's films, be they dramas or comedies, are remarkably personal and are permeated with his preoccupation with art, religion and love.



By 1960, he had begun his own successful career as a stand-up comedian, honing what would become his screen persona - the intellectual "schnook".



















Allen concentrated on dramatic material, peaking with the Chekhovian 'Hannah and Her Sisters'.




Their very public break-up, spurred by Allen's romantic involvement with Farrow's adopted daughter, was followed by Farrow's public accusations that Allen had molested their adopted daughter.









A running theme for his most recent films, however, seems to eerily mimic his real life romance with step-daughter and wife, Soon Yi Previn.