Garth Jennings
Biography
Garth Jennings is an English filmmaker who works as a director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Essex, he helped found the production company Hammer & Tongs in 1993, and it made music videos, among them a clip for Radiohead's Lotus Flower that brought him a Grammy Awards nomination. He moved to features with the science fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), adapted from Douglas Adams's franchise, and directed the coming of age film Son of Rambow (2007), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He followed those with the animated features Sing (2016) and Sing 2 (2021), and in Sing he also voiced Miss Crawly, an elderly iguana who assists Buster Moon. In 2019 he wrote, directed and co-produced the short Madame.
54years old
Turns 55 on March 4in 123 days
- Born London
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 12 years2009 to 2021
Every film, newest first
- 2021Sing 2IMDb rating 7.3
- 2016SingIMDb rating 7.1
- 2009Fantastic Mr. FoxIMDb rating 7.9
Genres
Share
Did you know?!
Behind the camera
Hammer & Tongs, a production company, was co-founded in 1993 by Garth Jennings together with Dominic Leung and Nick Goldsmith. Directing and writing music videos was the company's main work.
Beyond film
Jennings voiced Miss Crawly, an elderly iguana who works as an administrative assistant to Buster Moon, in the animated film Sing, which he also wrote and directed.
Behind the camera
Jennings directed, wrote and co-produced the 2019 short film Madame, set inside a grand Parisian apartment where an elegant elderly lady lives and a monster lives inside her.
Garth Jennings movies on Netflix
Most often with
Eleven actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Also two films together5 more actors
- Jennifer SaundersSing 2 (2021) and Sing (2016)
- Taron EgertonSing 2 (2021) and Sing (2016)
- Wes AndersonSing 2 (2021) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Adam BuxtonSing 2 (2021) and Sing (2016)
- Tori KellySing 2 (2021) and Sing (2016)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.