Ratner grew up in Miami Beach, the only child of a famous Jewish socialite mother. He attended Miami Beach Senior High and was President of the Leo Club in 1986. He was also a member of the "fraternity" Royal Palm. He attended NYU film school currently lives in a $3.6 M house in Beverly Hills. Ratner is also a good friend of Def Jam mogul Russell Simmons, and has directed music videos for many rap stars.


Rush Hour 3 (2007): $7,500,000
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006): $8.000.000 + A percentage of final net gross
Red Dragon (2002): $6,000,000
Rush Hour 2 (2001): $5,000,000
The Family Man (2000): $5,000,000

Engaged to Rebecca Gayheart. [1997] Attended Miami Beach Senior High. Without knowing him, Steven Spielberg and his company Amblin Entertainment sent him $5000 to finish funding for his final film project at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts after he sent out 20 letters to producers asking for help. His favorite film is Scarface (1932). Favorite film director is Hal Ashby. Ranked #81 on Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. He did not rank on the 2004 list. Replaced director Matthew Vaughn just two months before filming began on X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). In Red Dragon (2002), digital technology was used to smooth over some of Anthony Hopkins's facial features so that he would look younger than he was in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Similar technology was used in the first scene of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), so that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen could play their characters twenty years younger. His mother, Marsha Presman, was just 16 when she gave birth to her son. Lives in Los Angeles, California and Miami Beach, Florida.