Michael Almereyda
American film director and screenwriter · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1959 · age 67
Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied art history at Harvard University but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nikola Tesla.
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A typical day, 30 days to 24 June 2026
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Something wrong?A life in dates
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control OfficeFilm, Director, Writer2020
TeslaFilm, Director, Writer2017
EscapesFilm, Director, Writer2015
ExperimenterFilm, Director, Writer2014
CymbelineFilm, Director, Writer2012The Ogre's FeathersFilm, Director, Writer2008New Orleans, Mon AmourFilm, Director, Writer2005
William Eggleston in the Real WorldFilm, Director, Writer2004
DeadwoodSeries, Director2002
Happy Here and NowFilm, Director, Writer1998
The EternalFilm, Director, Writer1997
The Rocking Horse WinnerFilm, Director1995Sitges Film Festival Best Director awardAward1993
AliensFilm, Director1989
TwisterFilm, Director, Writer1985
A Hero of Our TimeFilm, Director, Producer1959Born7 April 1959People around Michael
Close ties
Anthony Katagas Produced Happy Here and Now (2002)
Karl Geary Michael directed Tesla, Hamlet and Nadja
Ethan Hawke Michael directed Tesla, Hamlet and Cymbeline
Lois Smith Michael directed Tesla and Marjorie Prime
Paula Malcomson Michael directed Hamlet and The Eternal
Bob Gosse Produced Tonight at Noon, also in Nadja (1995)
John Leguizamo Michael directed Experimenter and Cymbeline
Kyle MacLachlan Michael directed Tesla and Hamlet
Anton Yelchin Michael directed Experimenter and Cymbeline
Jared Harris Michael directed Nadja and The Eternal
Jim Gaffigan Michael directed Tesla and Experimenter
Josh Hamilton Michael directed Tesla and Experimenter
Hannah Gross Michael directed Tesla and Marjorie Prime
Isabel Gillies Also in Another Girl Another Planet and Nadja
Christopher Walken Michael directed The Eternal (1998)
Suzy Amis Cameron Michael directed Nadja (1994)
Lori Singer Michael directed Experimenter (2015)
Vondie Curtis-Hall Michael directed Cymbeline (2014)
David Lynch Michael directed Nadja (1994)
Milla Jovovich Michael directed Cymbeline (2014)
Bill Murray Michael directed Hamlet (2000)
Ed Harris Michael directed Cymbeline (2014)
William S. Burroughs Michael directed Twister (1989)
Peter Fonda Michael directed Nadja (1994)
Known for
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Experimenter 2015
Marjorie Prime 2017
Cherry 2000 1987
Tesla 2020
Hamlet 2000
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 39
84 credits on file
Television 1
Awards
About this person
His films include Hamlet (2000) and Experimenter (2015). His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project.
