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Tamara Jenkins (born May 2, 1962) is an American filmmaker and occasional actress. She is best known for her feature films Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), The Savages (2007), and Private Life (2018).
Tamara Jenkins was born on 2 May 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and writer, known for The Savages (2007), Private Life (2018) and Slums of Beverly Hills (1998). She has been married to Jim Taylor since 2002.
- January 1, 1
- Director, Writer, Actress
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Tamara Jenkins
Oct 5, 2018 · Tamara Jenkins, the writer/director of Netflix's "Private Life", a comedy-drama about a couple's fertility struggles, talks about her personal experience, her process and her vision. She reveals how she balanced comedy and drama, and why she chose to end the film with ambiguity.
Oct 26, 2022 · The Indie Woman of the Year talks about her Oscar-nominated debut "Slums of Beverly Hills" and her latest Netflix drama "Private Life". She also shares her insights on working with Philip Seymour Hoffman, editing and her favorite movies.
Tamara Jenkins is a director and writer of films such as The Savages, Private Life and Slums of Beverly Hills. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1962 and married Jim Taylor in 2002.
- May 2, 1962
Oct 3, 2018 · Filmmaker Tamara Jenkins, whose her latest film, Private Life, debuts October 5 on Netflix, on how to turn life’s gloppiness into cinema.
Oct 4, 2018 · Her latest, “ Private Life ,” starring Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti as a New York couple struggling with infertility treatments, comes 11 years after her last one, the Oscar-nominated “The Savages.” For Jenkins’ fans, such prolonged absences (it was nine years following her 1998 debut, “The Slums of Beverly Hills”) are a disappointment.
