Kathryn Bigelow
A stylish film director whose background as a painter and Whitney Museum fellow seems at odds with the action-fueled fare she's best known for, Kathryn Bigelow was born Nov. 27, 1951, in San Carlos, Calif.

After studying film theory and criticism at Columbia University, Bigelow launched her career as a feature director with The Loveless in 1982 -- a movie that also marked Willem Dafoe's big-screen debut. She went on to direct Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in Point Break (1991) and Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days (1995), and was briefly wed to director James Cameron.

In 2009, after a seven-year absence from filmmaking, Bigelow garnered widespread critical acclaim for The Hurt Locker, a taut thriller set in war-torn Iraq. As luck would have it, the Golden Globe and Oscar nods that followed had her competing against ex-husband Cameron, who was also nominated for his sci-fi blockbuster Avatar.

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