Add/Update Information: Julie Taymor - Director

An American director, born in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. Her father, Melvin Lester Taymor, is a gynecologist, and her mother Elizabeth Bernstein, is a professor of political science. She spent years of her upbringing living in many countries. When she was a teenager in the 1960s, she lived in Sri Lanka and India. She then studied acting in Paris, France, and studied theater at Oberlin College, graduating in 1974. She also studied film directing in the Netherlands. She is best known for the film Frida about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in 2002, starring actress Salma Hayek.