Robert Doyle Marshall Jr.[1] (born October 17, 1960)[2] is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer. He is best known for directing the film version of the Broadway musical Chicago, which was based on the play of the same name by playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins. His work on the film earned him the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. He also directed the films Memoirs of a Geisha, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Into the Woods, Mary Poppins Returns, and the Disney live-action remake The Little Mermaid.
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| Born | Robert Doyle Marshall Jr. October 17, 1960 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University (BFA) |
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| Partner | John DeLuca (c. 1983–present) |
| Relatives | Kathleen Marshall (sister) |
| Awards | Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Chicago (2002) |
Early life and education
editRobert Doyle Marshall Jr. was born in Madison, Wisconsin.[2] His father and namesake, Robert Doyle Marshall Sr., was a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,[3][4] and his mother Anne was a teacher.[5] Like him, his younger sister Kathleen became a choreographer and director.[6]
In 1984, Robert Marshall joined the English department at the University of Pittsburgh,[7] and the Marshall family relocated to Pittsburgh.[5] Anne would later work for Pittsburgh Public Schools and the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, and Robert would become associate professor of English and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the same university.[5]
Rob Marshall graduated from the Falk School,[8] and then in 1978 from Taylor Allderdice High School, into whose alumni hall of fame he later was inducted.[9] Graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982,[1][10] Marshall worked in the Pittsburgh theatre scene, performing with such companies as Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.[11]
Career
editMarshall went on to perform as a dancer in various Broadway shows, but suffered a herniated disc while performing in Cats and after recovering, transitioned into choreography and then directing.[12]
He debuted in the film industry with the TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. He went on to direct the 2002 adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162.2 million at the worldwide box office.[13]
Marshall went on to direct the 2009 film Nine, an adaptation of the Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In August 2009, it was reported that Marshall was to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane and Geoffrey Rush,[14] which opened on May 20, 2011 and grossed $1 billion worldwide.[15]
After working with Disney on Pirates, Marshall directed Disney's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods (2014), and produced the film under his Lucamar Productions banner.[16][17] His next film was the sequel to the 1964 film Mary Poppins, titled Mary Poppins Returns, reuniting two Into the Woods actresses: Emily Blunt as the title character and Meryl Streep in a supporting role.[18]
By December 2017, Disney was considering Marshall to direct the live-action/CGI adaptation of The Little Mermaid,[19] which he was officially confirmed to direct in December 2018.[20][21] In 2024, Marshall was hired to take over for Bill Condon as director of the remake of Guys and Dolls, for which he will also co-produce and co-write the screenplay with John DeLuca, John Requa and Glenn Ficarra.[22][23]
Personal life
editMarshall is gay. As of at least 2007, Marshall lives in New York City with his partner, producer and choreographer John DeLuca.[24] In 2004, they bought a $4.2 million summer home in Sagaponack, New York, part of The Hamptons.[25]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Choreographer | Story writer |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Chicago | Yes | No | Yes | No | Feature directorial debut |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Yes | No | No | No | |
| 2009 | Nine | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Yes | No | No | No | |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Also musical stager |
| Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew |
Yes | No | No | No | Making-of documentary | |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Director | Choreographer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts |
Yes | No | TV event |
| 2013 | 85th Academy Awards | No | Yes | TV special; Segment "All that Jazz" from Chicago |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer |
Choreographer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Victor/Victoria | No | No | Yes | |
| 1996 | Mrs. Santa Claus | No | No | Yes | |
| 1997 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella | No | No | Yes | Also musical stager |
| 1999 | Annie | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2006 | Tony Bennett: An American Classic | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Awards and nominations
edit| Year | Title | Academy Awards | BAFTA Awards | Golden Globe Awards | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominations | Wins | Nominations | Wins | Nominations | Wins | ||
| 2002 | Chicago | 13 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | Nine | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 2014 | Into the Woods | 3 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | 4 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Total | 30 | 9 | 24 | 5 | 18 | 4 | |
List of Tony Award nominations
| Year | Show | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Best Choreography |
| 1994 | Damn Yankees | Best Choreography |
| 1994 | She Loves Me | Best Choreography |
| 1998 | Cabaret | Best Choreography |
| Best Direction of a Musical |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/getinvolved/alumniawards/all_honorees_2018june1.pdf [dead link]
- ^ a b "Rob Marshall Biography (1960-)". FilmReference.com. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- ^ Marshall, Robert Doyle (1965). Dogmatic formalism to practical humanism: changing attitudes towards the passion of Christ in medieval English literature (Ph.D.). University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- ^ "Faculty of Arts and Sciences".
- ^ a b c Vancheri, Barbara (May 20, 2011). "Director Rob Marshall dove into 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on November 8, 2014.
- ^ Rawson, Christopher (August 22, 2007). "Two Marshalls win Governor's Awards for the Arts". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
- ^ "1787-1819 Footnotes | English | University of Pittsburgh". Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ Vancheri, Barbara (November 11, 2011). "Rob Marshall proves you can go home again". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on December 3, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- ^ "Allderdice to induct 6 to Alumni Hall of Fame". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. October 31, 2011. Archived from the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 204. ISBN 978-0-8229-4330-3. Retrieved 2011-06-06
- ^ Feinberg, Scott (5 January 2015). "Rob Marshall on Movie Musicals and His Journey 'Into the Woods' (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Box Office Mojo". boxofficemojo.com.
- ^ Michael Fleming (2009-08-02). "Rob Marshall circles 'Pirates'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
- ^ "Pirates of the Caribbean presented by Disney". Pirates of the Caribbean.
- ^ "Disney Sets Rob Marshall To Direct Adaptation Of 'Into The Woods'". Deadline Hollywood. January 11, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- ^ "Rob Marshall". Variety. Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ Snetiker, Marc (September 14, 2015). "Exclusive: Disney developing new original musical featuring Mary Poppins; Rob Marshall to direct". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
- ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (December 6, 2017). "Rob Marshall Top Choice To Helm Disney's Live Action 'The Little Mermaid'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
- ^ "Rob Marshall on Mary Poppins Returns and the Live-Action Little Mermaid". Collider. 21 December 2018.
- ^ "'Little Mermaid' Live-Action Director Rob Marshall Shares Production Update (Exclusive) | Entertainment Tonight". Entertainment Tonight.
- ^ Fleming Jr., Mike (September 24, 2024). "Has Lady Luck Turned In Favor Of 'Guys And Dolls' Musical? TriStar Teams Rob Marshall With Requa & Ficarra; Cue Casting Speculation On Who Plays Brando's Sky Masterson & Sinatra's Nathan Detroit". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ Hall, Margaret (September 24, 2024). "Rob Marshall Will Direct Updated Guys and Dolls Movie Musical". Playbill. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ Urban, Robert (January 23, 2007). "Powerful Gay Men in Hollywood". AfterElton.com. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 3, 2007.
- ^ David, Mark (August 4, 2015). "Rob Marshall Scoops Up Gotham Co-op". Variety. Archived from the original on August 21, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
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