Nickname:	/ Midas Mendes
Known for:	American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead
Birth name:	Samuel Alexander Mendes
Birthday:	1 August 1965, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

Happy Birthday to MTV! (1981); O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981), Avenged Sevenfold musician M. Shadows (1981), "The Cosby Show" actress Tempestt Bledsoe (1973), film director Sam Mendes (1965),


New mum MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL’s maternal skills came in handy on the set of her new movie FARLANDERS when she had to calm screaming baby twins.The actress plays a hippie mum in the Sam Mendes film - her first project since becoming a mother in October 2006.And when her tiny co-stars threatened to ruin filming by
Director SAM MENDES is set to fulfil a lifelong dream - after signing up to work with one of the world’s most prestigious opera festivals.The star will direct Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the 2010 season after being courted by English opera house Glyndbourne for eight years to take the role.David Pickard, Glyndbourne’s general director, says,
Director SAM MENDES has lavished praise on Scottish actor JAMES McAVOY likening the star to screen legend DUSTIN HOFFMAN.The filmmaker insists the Last King Of Scotland star is just as good as The Graduate icon was in his youth.He says, "(McAvoy) has the charm of a young Dustin Hoffman and the emphatic everyman quality of
Director Sam Mendes has been forced to cancel two of his London theater projects after leading actor Stephen Dillane pulled out of the shows because of an illness in the family. Mendes was due to team up with his American Beauty star, Kevin Spacey, to present the William Shakespeare plays Hamlet and The Tempest at London's Old Vic Theatre next year - where Spacey serves as Artistic Director.


Director Sam Mendes is to reunite with Kevin Spacey in a three year theatre project. Spacey, Artistic Director of London's Old Vic Theatre has invited Mendes to present a double-bill of classic plays up until 2010 in the British capital and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.


Director SAM MENDES is to reunite with his AMERICAN BEAUTY star KEVIN SPACEY in a three year theatre project.Spacey, Artistic Director of London’s Old Vic Theatre, has invited Mendes to present a double-bill of classic plays up until 2010 in the British capital and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.In one production, Mendes
Kate Winslet is teaming up with her Oscar-winning director husband Sam Mendes to work on a new movie. Winslet, who has been married to the filmmaker for three years, has been interested in playing the role of 1920s circus tiger tamer Mabel Stark since 2003.

And now Mendes' company, Neal Street Productions, has bought the rights to adapt a fictionalized life of Stark by author Robert Hough.


Actress KATE WINSLET is teaming up with her Oscar-winning director husband SAM MENDES to work on a new movie.Winslet, who has been married to the AMERICAN BEAUTY filmmaker for three years, has been interested in playing the role of 1920s circus tiger tamer MABEL STARK since 2003.And now Mendes’ company, Neal Street Productions, has bought

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