Catherine Hardwicke - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!
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| Name | Catherine Hardwicke |
| First Name | Catherine |
| Last Name | Hardwicke |
| Occupation | Director |
| Birthday | October 21 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
| Place of Birth | Cameron |
| Home Town | Texas |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Jack Hardwicke, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Catherine Hardwicke Biography
Catherine Hardwicke is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on October 21, 1955 in Cameron, Texas, United States. She directed Nikki Reed in both Thirteen and Twilight.
Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21, 1955) is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film’s co-star, Lords of Dogtown (2005), The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Plush (2013), Miss You Already (2015), and Miss Bala (2019).
Feeling limited, Hardwicke moved to Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA film school to explore her creative talents. Hardwicke made her first short film for her brother Jack who was marrying Nicolette Cullen. During this period in the 1980s, Hardwicke made an award-winning short, Puppy Does the Gumbo and was recognized with a Nissan Focus Award was featured in the Landmark Best of UCLA film program.
She grew up with one sister named Irene Hardwicke Olivieri.
Her most commercially successful film by 2008 was Twilight.
Hardwicke was born in Cameron, Texas on October 21, 1955, the daughter of Jamee Elberta (née Bennett) and John Benjamin Hardwicke. She has a brother, Jack, and a sister, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, who became an artist. She grew up in McAllen on the U.S.–Mexico border, where her family owned and operated a farm along the Rio Grande, and was raised as a Presbyterian. She said the border area was wild: in high school, “her principal was stabbed three times. A friend’s father was shot in the back, and another friend was murdered. And yet life could be wonderful at the same time. ‘It was a Huck Finn life, too,’ she said.” Growing up in McAllen, Hardwicke describes it as “wild”. As a child she did not attend many movies and explains, “I didn’t go to many movies. Let’s be honest: It was a cultural wasteland. At the time, you could not go to a significant museum unless you drove three hours to Corpus Christi or four to San Antonio”. However, there were other ways to have fun such as sneaking over to the bars and nightclubs of Mexico before she was even a legal adult. Speaking on her early life Hardwicke says, “It was a wonderful childhood. I’m dying to make a movie about it”.
Catherine Hardwicke Net Worth
Catherine is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Catherine Hardwicke's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
She earned a degree in architecture before pursuing a graduate degree in film.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Director |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Reed and Hardwicke wrote the script from the point of view of Tracy, a “normal” 13-year-old who begins at a new middle school. There she meets Evie, who she thinks of as more advanced and whom she wants to impress. She hopes Evie will give her entree to what she thinks is an exciting “crowd.” Tracy’s single mother Melanie, played by Holly Hunter, has tried to be a friend to her daughter and does not know how to deal with her changes. The film features female friendship and the difficulties of adolescence. Hardwicke has developed these as recurring themes in her work. The film received critical acclaim and had praise for its stars and Holly Hunter was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Thirteen earned Hardwicke the directing award at Sundance in 2003.
In 2006, Hardwicke directed this biblical film for New Line Cinema. At first she was reluctant to take on the project as she worried about finding a fresh approach to the story at the heart of Christian culture. She began to consider Mary as a young girl faced with an incredible task, and also incorporated a psychological approach to Joseph and his issues. She put it in a context of contemporary teenagers. Hardwicke tried to dramatize the account of the Bible. Hardwicke wanted to cast a young actress as Mary, traditionally held to be about 14 or 15 at the time of Jesus’ birth, given the age of marriage of girls in that culture. She wanted an actress who at least appeared to be Middle Eastern. She cast as her lead Keisha Castle-Hughes, the Oscar-nominated New Zealand actress of aborigine descent, who starred in Whale Rider (2002).
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Through the 1990s and early 2000s, Hardwicke worked as a production designer on films including Tombstone (1993), Tank Girl (1995), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), The Newton Boys (1998), Three Kings (1999), and Antitrust (2001). In 2000, she worked as production designer with director/screenwriter Cameron Crowe and actor/producer Tom Cruise on Vanilla Sky (2001). That and Three Kings were noted for their original use of color-manipulation techniques to complement the narrative.
Who is Catherine Hardwicke Dating?
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Catherine Hardwicke. You may help us to build the dating records for Catherine Hardwicke!Amid rumors of a rocky relationship with Hardwicke, in 2008 Summit Entertainment announced that she would not direct the Twilight sequel, New Moon. Hardwicke said it was her decision, although a blog reported she had been fired by Summit. She said, “I couldn’t even be fired, that’s what’s so funny,” she says. “In my contract, I had the first right of refusal.” She turned down the second film, she says, because the studio wanted to rush it out. “I do not regret it at all, thank the Lord,” she says. “The truth is I liked the first book the best.” Hardwicke went on to direct Red Riding Hood for Summit.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Catherine Hardwicke height 5 feet 6 inches Catherine weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 5 feet 6 inches |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Her following film was not a commercial or critical success. Doing an adaptation of the classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood”, Hardwicke makes this a coming of age story, exploring the theme of adolescence growing into adulthood and sexual awakening. As in Neil Jordan’s 1984 film The Company of Wolves, the wolf is a werewolf who lives as a human among the townspeople. The village becomes turned on itself as everyone is suspect. Gary Oldman arrives to help solve the mystery. Red Riding Hood is played by young actress Amanda Seyfried, with supporting roles from Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez as the love interests.
Hardwicke has worked with many of this generation’s tween idols: Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen), Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown), Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner (Twilight), who each got big breaks in her highly successful films. Hardwicke’s films have been considered “dark” in story and tone. In 2009, she was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award.
Facts & Trivia
Catherine Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Catherine Hardwicke celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.
In 2012, Hardwicke helped create a public service announcement for the National Women’s History Museum. Hardwicke came up with the idea for the announcement and contributed to the script.
What movies did Catherine Hardwicke direct?
| 2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Director |
| 2006 | The Nativity Story | Director Executive producer |
| 2008 | Twilight | Director |
| 2011 | Red Riding Hood | Director Executive producer |
Where is Catherine Hardwicke from?
Cameron, TX
Why did Twilight get a new director?
Hardwicke decided against directing the second Twilight film, because it would require too tight of a turnaround; if she had said yes, she barely would have had a chance to breathe after postproduction and promotion for the first movie. (Twilight came out in November 2008; New Moon hit theaters just one year later.)
Why did all the Twilight movies have different directors?
She was originally given the job because of this fact, so once the franchise got popular and started making money, Hardwicke was left behind and replaced with white male directors moving forward, which was why she didn’t direct any more “Twilight” films.
Why was Twilight so low budget?
released in 2008, “Twilight,” which ranked 8th highest-grossing, had the smallest budget, while 8 out of 10 of the highest-grossing domestic films had budgets exceeding $100 million. The ultimatum to make “Twilight” with a limited budget was based on the idea that the film would have little commercial success.
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