Robert Schwartzman

Biography

Robert Schwartzman is an American filmmaker, actor and musician who sings lead for the rock band Rooney. Born in Los Angeles, he and some friends started the band in 1999 during his junior year of high school, and Rooney signed to Geffen/Interscope after he left college; the self-titled debut album came out in 2003, followed by Calling the World in 2007. He acted in his cousin Sofia Coppola's Lick the Star and The Virgin Suicides (1999) and starred in The Princess Diaries (2001). He put out a solo album, Double Capricorn, in 2011 and scored Palo Alto in 2013. He wrote and directed Dreamland (2016), directed The Unicorn (2018) and The Argument (2020), and co-founded the distribution company Utopia Media in 2018.

43years old

Turns 44 on December 24in 83 days

Born December 24, 1982Los Angeles
Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
Also credited as Robert Carmine

Movie Career

Films: 3
Career span: 20 years1999 to 2019

Every film, newest first

2019Lost TransmissionsIMDb rating 5.1
2001The Princess DiariesIMDb rating 6.4
1999The Virgin SuicidesIMDb rating 7.2

Genres

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Behind the camera
Schwartzman both wrote and directed Dreamland, a 2016 movie with Johnny Simmons and Amy Landecker. Its world premiere came at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 14, 2016.
Behind the camera
Schwartzman co-founded Utopia Media in 2018, a distribution company he described as filmmaker first, and in 2020 it launched Altavod, a platform for filmmakers to distribute and profit from their films.
A change of course
Schwartzman was a junior at Windward School in Los Angeles when he and some friends formed Rooney in 1999. In 2001 he went to Eugene Lang College in New York City.
A change of course
In the summer of 2002, Schwartzman's band Rooney served as the opening act on Weezer's headlining tour, their first national support slot. The Strokes were the next tour the band landed.