Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She had been the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving in March 2011, after four months of previews (the longest preview period for any show in Broadway history), following artistic differences with the producers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Taymor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: Newton, Massachusetts, USA, 1952-12-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2006	Hollywoods Oper - Eine Oper für Los Angeles	Self	0
2	2007	Lights, Action, Music	Self	70
3	2008	Creating the Universe		0
4	2010	Dante Ferretti: Production Designer	Self	63
5	2010	Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino	Herself	85
6	2011	Kurosawa's Way	Self	54
7	2011	Pride of The Lion King	Herself	100
8	2013	Muse of Fire	Self	65
9	2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Stage and Film Director	67
10	2017	Julie Taymor: Shakespeares Kino	Herself	0
11	2018	Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché	Self	73
12	2019	On Broadway	Self (archive footage)	87
13	2025	The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	71

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1992	Behind the Scenes		60
2	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
3	2005	The Colbert Report		69

Julie Taymor

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