Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
“My husband and I, we’re sort of this team and we don’t have staff, any of that stuff. “It’s just not really how we roll.So separating myself from my home just mentally, to not be making shopping lists and PE kits, to do my [acting] job, does get harder.”Kate has daughter Mia, 20, by first husband Jim Threapleton, son Joe, 17, with film director Sam Mendes, and Bear, seven, with third husband Edward Abel Smith.But Kate, now playing a fossil hunter in romance Ammonite, won’t quit films.“I love this job more as I get older,” she said..
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