Nick Cassavetes

Premiere: Nick Cassavetes at the LA premiere for New Line's John Q - 1/7/2002 Photo: Steve Granitz/Wireimage.com

Biography

Born 05/21/1959

This tall (6'4"), handsome supporting player of feature films and TV gradually began playing leading roles in B-movies and the occasional supporting turn in big studio films, but then shifted career tracks to became a very capable director. Scion of maverick independent filmmaker and actor John...
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Highlights

  • In 2009, Directed the film adaptation of "My Sister's Keeper," based on the novel by Jodi Picoult
  • In 2007, Wrote and directed the film "Alpha Dog"; loosely based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, the youngest man ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list
  • In 2004, Directed his mother Gena Rowlands in the film adaptation of "The Notebook"; based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks

Family & Companions

  • wife: mother of Virginia and Sasha Cassavetes
  • Heather Wahlquist: wife (Second wife; has appeared in several of his films )
  • Isabelle Rafalovich: wife (Married Sept. 8, 1985; mother of his two daughters; divorced)

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