Charles Alexandre Rockwell (born August 18, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

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, producer

Film producer

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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Personal life

Rockwell is the grandson of the Russian animator Alexandre Alexeieff who invented the pinscreen. His Grandmother was a stage actress in Paris, as well as an artist. His father was also an actor and filmmaker. His mother, Svetlana Alexeieff Rockwell, currently living in Westport MA, is originally from Paris, France and emigrated to the US to marry Alex's father. She is a painter. Rockwell grew up in Cambridge MA, and moved to NYC in his early 20's.

From 1986 to 1996, he was married to actress Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals

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. Beals introduced Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell

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 to Alexandre, who has subsequently cast him in four of his films. They are not related.

Since February 8, 2003, he has been married to actress Karyn Parsons

Karyn Parsons

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, with whom he has two children - a daughter named Lana (born 2003) and a son named Nico (born 2007).

Rockwell currently teaches directing at NYU's Graduate film school and resides in Los Angeles. His wife Karyn (of Fresh Prince of Belair fame) has her own production company, Sweetblackberry.com.

Filmography

• Pete Smalls Is Dead (2010)
• 13 Moons
  13 Moons
  13 Moons is a 2002 comedy-drama film by director Alexandre Rockwell. The title is a reference to the saying of a minor character's mother, who suggested that if nights of the full moon are strange, then "this must be the night of thirteen moons."- Plot :...
  
  (2002)
• Louis & Frank (1998)
• Four Rooms
  Four Rooms
  Four Rooms is a 1995 portmanteau comedy film telling four stories set in a hotel in the US city of Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Tim Roth stars as the principal character of the frame tale; he also takes part to some degree in all four stories....
  
  (1995)
• Somebody to Love (1994)
• In the Soup
  In the Soup
  In the Soup is a 1992 independent film comedy directed by Alexandre Rockwell. It stars Steve Buscemi as a self-conscious screenwriter who has written an unfilmable 500-page screenplay and is looking for a producer....
  
  (1992)
• Sons (1989)
• Hero (A Strange World of Misfits) (1983)

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