Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an Academy Award- and Palme d'Or-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004) and Death Proof featured in Grindhouse (2007). Biography Early life Quentin Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie (née McHugh), born in Tennessee, 3 September 1946, adopted daughter of Ellis Shaffer and wife Betty, a nurse and health care executive who worked for a home medical organization, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York. Tarantino's father is Italian American and his mother had