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Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), which won Hilary Swank her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Peirce's second feature, Stop-Loss, was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her third film Carrie was released on October 18, 2013.
Kimberly Peirce was born on 8 September 1967 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Boys Don't Cry (1999), Stop-Loss (2008) and Carrie (2013).
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- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Feb 7, 2014 · Twenty years ago, in 1994, filmmaker Kimberly Peirce was a down-on-her-luck 27-year-old film student at Columbia University. Living in an enclave of artists, intellectuals, and queers in...
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Kimberly Peirce was born on September 8, 1967 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Boys Don't Cry (1999), Stop-Loss (2008) and Carrie (2013).
- September 8, 1967
Oct 9, 2019 · The director Kimberly Peirce, then a graduate student at Columbia University, was there, too, traveling with the Transexual Menace activist group as research for the film about Teena she was ...
Nov 26, 2013 · The tragic story of transgender teenager Brandon Teena, murdered in Nebraska when his identity was discovered, the 1999 movie became a touchstone in the national debate on sexuality. It also...
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Dec 12, 2019 · Their chief concerns were that Swank and Peirce are cisgender (Peirce identifies as genderqueer), and that the film’s graphic depiction of violence was exploitative of trans people.
