Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel on October 22, 1969), is an American director of music videos and commercials, and an Academy Award-nominated director and producer in film and television, most notably the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 filmAdaptation., both written by Charlie Kaufman.
Jonze was born in Rockville, Maryland, and raised in Bethesda, Maryland. His father was Arthur Spiegel III, a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family, who founded APM Management Consultants. His mother, Sandra Granzow, is a writer (Our Dream: A World Free of Poverty, Oxford University Press and the World Bank), communications consultant in developing countries, and artist (MFA candidate, School of Visual Arts, 2007). His brother Sam (aka Squeak E. Clean) is a producer and DJ. Jonze attended Walt Whitman High School.
Jonze fronted Club Homeboy, an international BMX club, with Mark "Lew" Lewman and Andy Jenkins, both co-editors of Freestylin' Magazine in the mid to late 1980s. The three...
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