Alex Proyas
Alex Proyas
Alexander Proyas ( PROY-əs; born 23 September 1963) is an Australian filmmaker. He is known for directing the films The Crow) (1994), Dark City) (1998), I, Robot) (2004) and Knowing) (2009).
Early life
Alexander Proyas was born in Alexandria (then in the United Arab Republic and now in Egypt) on 23 September 1963, the son of a Greek Cypriot mother and a father from Egypt whose Greek ancestors had moved to Egypt many generations ago.
Early life
When he was three years old, the family moved to Australia, where he grew up in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. He grew up on a housing estate where the main tenants were fellow immigrants and Indigenous Australians, with whom he felt a kinship because they were all often subjected to racism by white Australians.
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