Director

Jessica Hausner

Directing

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 20

TMDB ID: 19896

IMDb ID: nm0369618

Known for: Directing

Born: October 6, 1972

Age: 53

Place of birth: Vienna, Austria

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1995 - 2024

Years active: 30

Average TMDB rating: 6.17

Wikidata: Q79003

Also known as

Джессика Хауснер • 杰茜卡·豪斯纳

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Director (6)Casting Director (1)Producer (5)Writer (3)Consulting Producer (1)Dramaturgy (1)Screenplay (1)Script Editor (1)Story Editor (1)

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Biography

Jessica Hausner (born 6 October 1972; Vienna) is an Austrian filmmaker. She received international attention in 2001 when her film Lovely Rita, a portrait of a young girl who feels confined by family constraints, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later she returned to Cannes with her film Hotel. Her 2014 film Amour Fou was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Jessica Hausner is the daughter of Viennese painter Rudolf Hausner, sister of costume designer Tanja Hausner and half sister of set designer and painter Xenia Hausner. She studied at Filmacademy Vienna. With fellow directors Barbara Albert and Antonin Svoboda and director of photography Martin Gschlacht, she founded the Viennese film production company coop99 in 1999. She was appointed a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017.