Alexander Stuart Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Alexander Stuart has worked with Angelina Jolie, Jodie Foster, Kiefer Sutherland and Danny Boyle - on movies including Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, and Tim Roth's film of Stuart's acclaimed novel, The War Zone, starring Tilda Swinton, Lara Belmont, Freddie Cunliffe and Ray Winstone. ...
Once my son was diagnosed with cancer, I had this huge amount of pain and anger about how this could happen to the child I loved so much. And I definitely directed that into The War Zone. I wrote it differently than anything I've written. I would rush back to the house while he was in chemotherapy and just write for two hours. I almost felt as if I were channeling it.
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Writing script of his novel "The War Zone" for Tim Roth to direct. Writing script based on book, "Among The Thugs", for Kiefer Sutherland to direct. [1996]
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A newly updated and fully revised 20th Anniversary Edition of The War Zone (novel) was published in 2009, including both the original British and American opening chapters, an Afterword by Tim Roth and a Diary of the Making of the Film by Alexander Stuart.
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Helped his wife deliver their daughter at home in Los Angeles on New Year's Day 2009, before the midwife could arrive.
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In 2007, he informally adopted the surname Chow-Stuart to celebrate the fusion of both family names in his children's surname.
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On September 22 2006, Stuart was sworn in as an American Citizen.
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Judge at the Sitges International Film Festival, Spain, 1995.
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The War Zone novel is listed for its publication year, 1989, in The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone).
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For his first venture as a producer, he persuaded director Nicolas Roeg
whom he had only met once, for a magazine interview - to see the
play, Insignificance, that Stuart was trying to get the rights to. Roeg came on the play's last night, agreed to direct the movie, and helped Stuart set the project up with producer Jeremy Thomas.
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Three children, one deceased. One son, born 1983, died 1989. One son, born 2004, and one daughter, born 2009.
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At age seventeen was commissioned by BBC TV to write and direct a short film, The Hollow Moment, and invited by Films and Filming magazine in the UK to become a regular movie critic and feature writer.
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Sarah Radclyffe, one of the producers of The War Zone, previously co-produced his short film, The Man Who Shot Christmas, which featured Jim Broadbent as Santa Claus.
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Stuart's novel, The War Zone, was awarded the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel in 1989, only to have the award withdrawn before the prize giving ceremony amid controversy involving one dissenting judge.
$5 Million
