Juan J. Campanella

Juan José Campanella (born July 19, 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Academy Award-nominated and two-time Daytime Emmy Award winning director.

Biography

Campanella started studying engineering, but dropped out in 1980 after four years at university. He would later remark that the decisive factor for this decision was watching "All That Jazz" on the very day he was going to apply for a fifth year. His debut as director was in 1979, with the short "Prioridad nacional". Campanella traveled to the United States and entered the Tisch School of the Arts. Four years later, in 1984, his second film, "Victoria 392", which marked the first of five collaborations with actor friend Eduardo Blanco, as well as his first collaboration with screenwriter Fernando Castets, with whom he co-directed and co-wrote the film.

After graduating from film school, Campanella went on to direct two USA films: "The Boy Who Cried Bitch" in 1991 and "Love Walked In" in 1997.

In 1999, Campanella reunited once more with Castets to write "El Mismo Amor, la Misma Lluvia", which starred actor friend Ricardo Darín (who had met Campanella 15 years before, abroad) and Eduardo Blanco. The formula would be repeated with two other films, in "El Hijo de la Novia", 2001 (nominated best foreign language film in 2002) and in "Luna de Avellaneda", 2004, all of which teamed Campanella and Castests as screenwriters, and Darín and Blanco as leading and supporting actor, respectively.

Campanella nowadays directs mostly TV series for American audiences.

He holds Spanish citizenship since 2006.

Filmography

* "Luna de Avellaneda" (2004)
* "El Hijo de la Novia" (2001)
* "El Mismo Amor, la Misma Lluvia" (1999)
* "Love Walked In" (1997)
* "The Boy Who Cried Bitch" (1991)
* "Victoria 392" (1984)
* "Prioridad nacional" (1979)

Select TV work

* "House" (2007)
* "30 Rock" (2006)
* "Six Degrees" (2006)
* "" (2000-Present)
* "Dragnet" (2003)
* "" (2002)
* "Ed" (2002)
* "Strangers with Candy" (2000)
* "Upright Citizens Brigade" (1998)
* " (Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunell Story)" (1993)

Trivia

*Campanella has worked 5 times with Eduardo Blanco, 3 times with Ricardo Darín and 2 times with Héctor Alterio. Campanella has also directed a number of acclaimed argentine actors, including Norma Aleandro, Alfredo Alcón, Ulises Dumont, Natalia Verbeke, Adrián Suar, Mercedes Morán, Valeria Bertuccelli and Rodrigo de la Serna, as well as USA actors Denis Leary, Adrien Brody, Moira Kelly, Justin Long, Vincent D'Onofrio, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Tracy Jordan, Rachel Dratch, Hope Davis, Jay Hernandez, Bridget Moynahan and Hugh Laurie.

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