Jordan Walker-Pearlman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jordan Walker-Pearlman (born 24 June 1967, New York City) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his movie The Visit, for which he was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. His movie Constellation was released in February 2007 and is now screened around the USA at conferences promoting racial healing in America. He has worked with actors Hill Harper, Billy Dee Williams, Phylicia Rashad, Lynn Redgrave, Rae Dawn Chong, Zoe Saldana, Gabrielle Union, Lesley Ann Warren, William Hurt, Harry Connick Jr, Obba Babatunde, Talia Shire, Glynn Turman, and David Clennon, among others.He is a political independent who once worked on US Foreign Policy issues for Congressional Candidates. He spent much of 2007 raising funds for and speaking at events on behalf of Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, whom he met through mutual friends.He is currently preparing to film his new movie, entitled Dawana.He is the nephew of Gene Wilder.
I prefer not to have Actors read lines when they meet me about a part. I'd rather have a conversation. I don't think I'm going to get anywhere knowing that a professional can memorize lines. I want to know what approach internally and emotionally this person is going to take to the role. I don't believe there is such a thing as bad acting, there's good acting and bad directing (of the actor). That begins in the casting process. For me it's less important that an actor comes in memorializing a scene than they can live a part.
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My uncle's personality is one part Willy Wonka, one part Frederick Von Frankenstein, one part the voice that narrates his novels, and that other part is just as special and unique and not easily described other than it breathes love, humor, curiosity, and tolerance.
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Had two best men at his wedding, his closest friend actor Hill Harper and his Uncle, actor Gene Wilder.
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Was the Best man of his Uncle Gene Wilder when the actor married Karen Boyer Webb on September 8th, 1991. At Walker-Pearlman's Wedding on April 25th, 2015, Wilder served as Best Man Emeritus, Ring Bearer, and "Parent of the Groom.".
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Married to Screenwriter Elizabeth Hunter on April 25th, 2015 at First Calvary Baptist Church in Harlem, New York.
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Taught the Master Class in Directing at the Bahamas International Film Festival. [2011]
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MC for the All-Star Jazz concert Bricktop: Queen Of The Night at the Apollo Theater in New York in December 2008.
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Sometimes uses the alias or nom de plume of Jeffery Seaver, as in the opening quote in his movie Constellation. He created the name from his Grandmother's dog (Jeff) and his childhood cat (Seaver).
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A member since birth of First Calvary Baptist Church Of Harlem.
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In 2006 George Clooney's "Good Night And Good Luck," and Jordan Walker-Pearlmans "Constellation," were the two films chosen to screen as special events at the United States Embassy in London.
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Fund Raiser for the Presidential Campaign of Senator Barack Obama.
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Grandson of Harlem child-welfare activist Adele Walker, whom "The New York Times" nicknamed "Mother Love".
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