Celebrities born on May 20

Massimo Zeri, born in Rome, Italy, started shooting short films at the age of 12 with his father's 8mm camera. He was enrolled at the “Roberto Rossellini” Film School of Rome, where he graduated with adegree in camera techniques and cinematography. He began working as a cameraman for several television networks in Rome. But only after attending UCLA was he able to break into the motion pictures industry. He began working as camera assistant and operator for such renowned cinematographers and directors as Nestor Almendros, Jack Cardiff, Donald McAlpine, Vittorio Storaro, Luciano Tovoli, Vilmos Zsigmond, Bruce Beresford, Federico Fellini, Alberto Sordi, Paul Mazursky and Francis FordCoppola. Massimo's credits includes “Tempest” starring John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia; “Table for Five” starring Jon Voight, Richard Crenna and Molly Perkins; “King David” starring Richard Gere and “New York Stories” starring Giancarlo Giannini.

Zbigniew Preisner (born 20 May 1955) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Preisner is best known for the music composed for the films directed by fellow Pole Krzysztof Kieślowski. His Song for the Unification of Europe, based on the Greek text of 1 Corinthians 13, is attributed to a character in Kieślowski's Three Colors: Blue and plays a dominating role in the story. His music for Three Colors: Red includes a setting of Polish and French versions of a poem by Wisława Szymborska, a Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet. After working with Kieślowski on Three Colors: Blue, Preisner was hired by the producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for The Secret Garden, directed by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Although Preisner is most closely associated with Kieślowski, he has collaborated with several other directors, winning a César in 1996 for his work on Jean Becker's Élisa. He has won a number of other awards, including another César in 1994 for Three Colors: Red, and the Silver Bear from the 47th Berlin International Film Festival 1997 for The Island on Bird Street. He was nominated for Golden Globe awards for his scores for Three Colors: Blue (1993) and At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991). In 1998, Requiem for My Friend, Preisner's first large scale work not written for film, premiered. It was originally intended as a narrative work to be written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and directed by Kieślowski, but it became a memorial to Kieślowski after the director's death. The Lacrimosa from this Requiem appears in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The Dies Irae from this Requiem appears in the film La Grande Bellezza, directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Preisner composed the theme music for the People's Century, a monumental twenty-six part documentary made jointly in 1994 by the BBC television network in United Kingdom and the PBS television network in the United States. He has also worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 film It's All About Love. He provided orchestration for David Gilmour's 2006 album On An Island as well as additional orchestrations for the show at Gdańsk shipyards at which he also conducted the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, this was documented on the album Live in Gdańsk (2008). Silence, Night and Dreams is Zbigniew Preisner's new recording project, a large-scale work for orchestra, choir and soloists, based on texts from the Book of Job. The premier recording, was released in 2007 with the lead singer of Madredeus, Teresa Salgueiro and boy soprano Thomas Cully from Libera.

Chris Smith (born in 1970) is an American film director, cameraman, producer, writer, and editor. He is best known for directing American Movie, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Smith completed his first film, American Job, while attending the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's Graduate Film Program. Chris met Mark Borchardt (the subject of American Movie) while editing American Job, and began filming a documentary about the making of Mark's psychological thriller Coven. Both films played at the Sundance Film Festival, and American Movie was bought by Sony Pictures for $1 million. Chris Smith's directing credits include: Collapse (2009), The Pool (2007), The Yes Men (2003), Home Movie (2001), American Movie (1999), and American Job (1996). He is signed to Smuggler for representation.

Rafael Corkidi Acriche (May 20, 1930 - September 18, 2013) was a Mexican filmmaker and videographer who collaborated, as director of photography with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the tapes Fando and Lis (1968), El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain(1973). He was the director of the first Mexican and Latin American feature film made entirely in video format, Figures of Passion (1983).

Guo Jiayi is a Chinese film and television actress. She is also a National martial arts champion and a graduate from Beijing Sport University.

Hiroshi Nishikiori (Japanese: 錦織博, born May 20, 1966) is a Japanese anime director from Kyoto, Japan. He debuted in 1999 with I'm Gonna Be An Angel! Two years later, he directed Angelic Layer, which won the Animation Kobe in the television category. In 2002, he directed the anime adaptation of Azumanga Daioh. He was also the casting director and storyboard artist of the anime and contributed to The Very Short Movie by directing, writing the screenplay, and drawing the storyboard. From 2008 to 2019, he directed the anime adaptation of A Certain Magical Index, as well as its theatrical film, A Certain Magical Index: The Movie – The Miracle of Endymion. In 2020, he directed From Argonavis. He has also worked on such anime series as Love Hina, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Negima!, most frequently as a storyboard artist. Sources: Wikipedia, Fandom

Nigerian American Comfort Fedoke is a multi-talented, choreographer, actor, singer, and Emmy award winning dancer. Known for competing on So You Think You Can Dance Season 4, and was invited back for several years as an All-Star , choreographer, and mentor. On stage, Comfort has worked and performed live with talented artists such as H.E.R, John Legend, Florence and the Machine, Harry Styles, Kanye West, LL Cool J, Chaka Khan, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Wale, Jason Derulo, JLo, Travis Scott, Drake, Gwen Stefani, Lizzo, Missy Elliott, etc. Her work doesn't end on the dance floor, she also worked alongside legendary Sway Calloway for Red Bull TV as a commentator and host. Comfort continues to be a host and voice for numerous events for Red Bull TV and radio, as well as judge on a hit Nigerian TV show called Maltina Dance All. Commercially Comfort has done numerous amounts of work. She was a solo feature in Nike's 30-year celebration of Air Max - promoting the new VaporMax shoe, Michael Jackson's Pepsi generation Super Bowl commercial, along with having world wide campaigns with Apple. She has acted and choreographed in a number of films, TV, and Stage shows, such as Footloose, Step Up 5 All In , The Mindy project, The Funny Dance show on E, Blindspotting, High Strung, That 90's show, The Big Leap, and The Santa Clauses. You can also now catch Comfort on Disney + as "DrosselMeyer" on the holiday family film "Hip Hop Nutcracker". Comfort currently resides in London, where she is completing her work as an associate choreographer on the new film "Wicked", directed by John Chu; and associate choreographer for London's # 1 West end show " Cabaret". It's been recently announced that Comfort will be a new judge on So You Think You Can Dance season 18, premiering March 4th 2024 on Fox.

Shiboprosad Mukherjee is an Indian Bengali film maker, actor and Screenwriter. He, along with director Nandita Roy, are amongst the few director duos in the history of Bengali cinema to have achieved success both critically and commercially in their very first film Icche (2011). The director duo is known for directing socially relevant entertaining films. They have directed films like Icche, Muktodhara, Accident, Alik Sukh and Ramdhanu all of which have achieved both critical and commercial success. He is a partner at Windows Productions. Shiboprosad Mukherjee was born on 20 May 1974 in Baranagar, Kolkata. He attended Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Baranagar Mission and later did his high school from Hindu School. He perused his graduation in Political Science Honours from Jadavpur University. After completion of high school he joined the theatre group as trainer. He was part of T.I.E. Project (Theater in Education), under the guidance of Rudra Prasad Sengupta. He also attended workshop conducted by Ibrahim Alkazi. During his acting days he was also working as a freelance journalist in 'Anandalok' (a film Magazine of A.B.P. Group), guided by Rituporno Ghosh. He started acting in television serials like Ekushe Pa, Ghoom Nei, Janmabhoomi etc. He got his first acting career break in the year 1995 in the serial "Ekushe Pa" directed by Raja Dasgupta for Zee Bangla. He has been associated with ETV Bangla - a 24-hrs regional satellite channel of Eenadu Group right from its inception where he is responsible for conceptualizing, designing & producing 6 hours of original programming daily. He was a senior programming associate at ETV Bangla (1999 to 2002). He has designed more than 50 non-fiction shows for Bengali television. He conceptualised the first Bengali women's magazine programmes on television - 'Sreemoti'. He launched the first reality show format in Bengali television - Ritur Mela Jhoom Tara Ra Ra as a director and producer he has worked with all leading channels in West Bengal and Bangladesh. He has designed more than 10,000 hours of television programme. He started his own company named 'Windows Productions' along with his partner Nandita Roy. Together they produced many non-fiction and fiction programmes.

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