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Rob Marshall

10 films directed

Biography

Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture winner Chicago.

Marshall was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Award-wining TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162,242,962 at the worldwide box office. In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush, which is set to open on May 20, 2011.

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The career in numbers

  • US$ 1.1 bi Total budget from 8 film(s) with data
  • US$ 2.7 bi Total box office from 7 film(s) with data
  • US$ 134 mi Average budget from 8 film(s) with data
  • US$ 386 mi Average box office from 7 film(s) with data
  • 6.5 Average rating from 8 film(s) with data
  • 2.5× Return on investment from 7 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film Year Budget Box office Rating
The Little Mermaid poster The Little Mermaid 2023 US$ 297 mi US$ 570 mi 6.2
Mary Poppins Returns poster Mary Poppins Returns 2018 US$ 130 mi US$ 349 mi 6.5
Into the Woods poster Into the Woods 2014 US$ 50 mi US$ 213 mi 5.8
Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew poster Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew 2014 6.0
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides poster Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011 US$ 379 mi US$ 1.0 bi 6.6
Nine poster Nine 2009 US$ 80 mi US$ 54 mi 5.5
Tony Bennett: An American Classic poster Tony Bennett: An American Classic 2006 7.7
Memoirs of a Geisha poster Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 US$ 85 mi US$ 162 mi 7.6
Chicago poster Chicago 2002 US$ 45 mi US$ 307 mi 7.1
Annie poster Annie 1999 US$ 8 mi 6.5

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