Patty Jenkins

At 52 years old, Patty Jenkins has this physical status:

Patricia Lea Jenkins (born July 24, 1971) is an American film and television producer and screenwriter.

She produced Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017), and the forthcoming Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).

She was nominated for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series by the Primetime Emmy Award for her role on the pilot episode of The Killing.

Early life

Jenkins was born in Victorville, California, to William T. Jenkins, a US Air Force officer and fighter pilot who earned a Silver Star in the Vietnam War, and Emily Roth, who later worked in San Francisco as an environmental scientist. Elaine Roth, Elaine's elder sister, is Jessica Jenkins Murphy, while her younger sister is Jessica Jenkins Murphy.

Due to her father's military service, she spent her early childhood moving often. The family then settled in Lawrence, Kansas, after being briefly in Thailand and Germany. Her father died at the age of 31 when she was seven years old. Jenkins and her sister were dropped off at a movie theater in Kansas to San Francisco, where they saw the original Superman starring Christopher Reeve. Jenkins found the film inspiring, and the experience sparked an interest in filmmaking as a career.

While living in Lawrence, she attended kindergarten through her junior year of high school. Patty and her family then moved to Washington, D.C., where Patty spent her senior year of high school. She earned her undergraduate degree in Painting from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1993 and a master's degree in directing from the American Film Institute in 2000. Jenkins, a long-time Pedro Almodóvar fan, made the 2001 short film Velocity Rules, describing her as a cross between a superhero film and Almodóvar's portrayal of an accident-prone housewife.

Jenkins was involved in photography, painting, and screen-printing from the beginning of junior high school. When working on set for free at age 20, she heeded a suggestion that she might obtain film training if she worked on set for free. Jenkins converted to his second assistant camera and focus puller, then spent eight years as a photographer after doing so for some months. When shooting a Michael Jackson music video, her producer of photography suggested that she attend the American Film Institute to learn filmmaking. She made a superhero short film that debuted at the AFI Festival later this year. Brad Wyman, who later introduced her to producer Donald Kushner, was involved in her first feature film, Monster (2003).

Personal life

In 2007, Jenkins married Sam Sheridan, a former firefighter and the author of the book A Fighter's Heart. They have a son and reside in Santa Monica, California.

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Career

Patty Jenkins made her debut as director with Just Drives (2001), and she'd later follow it up with Velocity Rules (2001). This film follows a housewife who finds out she is a superhero and then has to choose whether she likes excitement and glamour or her husband. The film turned out to be a Recipient of the Warner Brothers Production Grant.

This brought her closer to the film Monster (2003); at first she tried to convince producer Brad Wyman to direct, but she ended up writing the script herself under his guidance. Jenkins wound up writing about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a street prostitute who went on a 1989-1990 murder spree for seven of her male clients, and was on death row at the time. Wuornos were initially suspicious of Jenkins, but Jenkins learned that she was the only one with the ability to control Jenkins on the night.

Monster ended up being a critical and commercial success, with a budget of $1.5 million and Charlize Theron attached to the film, earning the actor her first and only award for Best Actress in a Leading Role to date. Roger Ebert, a film critic, named Monster (2003) "the best film of the decade" and later in 2009, it ranked 3rd on his list of the decade's top 100 films. Jenkins received the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and the Franklin J. Schaffner Award of the American Film Institute, as well as an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Screenplay for this film.

Jenkins was approached by former United States Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager to produce a film about his life after the success of the film Monster. When the idea didn't come to fruition, she attempted to make a Ryan Gosling film titled I Am Superman, but it didn't happen until she became pregnant. Jenkins spent the next decade in television.

In 2011, she produced one segment of the made-for-television anthology film Five. Patty was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the film. Jenkins produced several advertisements and TV shows based on episodes of Arrested Development and Entourage. She has been nominated for her film work on AMC's The Killing pilot, earning an Emmy Award once more. She was hired to direct Thor: The Dark World, the first sequel to 2011 superhero film Thor, but she had to leave the project after less than two months due to creative differences. She was attached to Sweetheart, a film about a female assassination, but the film was never made.

Jenkins landed as director of Wonder Woman, the DC Extended Universe film, with a screenplay by Allan Heinberg and a story co-written by Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs, as well as actress Gal Gadot. Jenkins was the first domestic opening for a female filmmaker, troubling previous record holder Fifty Shades of Grey by Sam Taylor-Johnson in June 2017. Jenkins also became the first female producer of an American studio superhero film with this film. Both critics and viewers loved the film, and the worldwide sales of over $800 million exceeded box office original expectations. Wonder Woman became the highest-grossing film directed by a woman, defeating previous record holder Mamma Mia! Phyllida Lloyd was the author of Phyllida Lloyd's book. However, Jennifer Lee's (with Chris Buck) and Captain Marvel, directed by Anna Boden, became number 1 and 2 respectively in 2019, dropping Wonder Woman and Jenkins to number 3 in comparison to number 3.

Jenkins said she would probably produce a limited television series with her husband while raising Wonder Woman. Riprore, a horror film that was later revealed on Shudder's video-on-demand service, will premiere. Jenkins, a writer and actress, and actress Chris Pine of Wonder Woman announced in July 2017 that Jenkins would be the host of a six-episode television drama, I Am the Night, written by her author husband Sam Sheridan and starring her Wonder Woman actress Chris Pine. She also worked as an executive producer.

Jenkins would return to direct Wonder Woman 2 in September 2017, according to Variety. Jenkins, on MTV's "Happy, Sad, Confused" podcast, said she was considering leaving the sequel due to a wage dispute between her and Warner Bros.

Wonder Woman 1984 was supposed to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on June 5, 2020, but the publication was postponed worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It had been planned for November 1, 2019, but the sequel received a mixed-to-negative critical reception and was a box office setback. She has been negotiating the terms of her Warner Brothers' deal, which would be a record-breaking salary for a female filmmaker. She went on to direct a second film with no promise of directing another one, but she anticipated the second one during the making of Wonder Woman, which turned out to be very helpful. When she was hired on to do the second film, she had the opportunity to make a much higher salary than she would have if she had signed on to do both films from the start. Her main aim with her talks was to ensure she would get the same salary as her male counterparts were getting for doing this film, and she seems to have succeeded.

Gal Gadott and Jenkins will be teaming up again for the film Cleopatra in October 2020. Gadot will appear in the film as the titular Cleopatra, ancient Egypt's historical pharaoh, with Jenkins as the director. Jenkins departed from the film in December 2021, but the filmmakers continued as a director, focusing instead on a third Wonder Woman film and the Star Wars spin-off film Rogue Squadron.

A spin off film set in the Wonder Woman universe focusing on the Amazons of Themyscira was announced in early development in November 2020. Jenkins will not return to direct the film, but it did cowrite the script with writer Geoff Johns. Warner Bros. introduced a new Iteration of the Wonder Woman franchise in 2021, with Jenkins as the writer and producer.

Jenkins has been hired to direct Rogue Squadron, a Star Wars spin-off film based on the group of starfighter pilots of the same name, which will be released in December 2020. The film was scheduled to be released on December 22, 2023. Jenkins will be the first female director to direct a Star Wars film, but not the first female director in the overall series. Matthew Robinson had been hired by Lucasfilm to write the script in June 2021, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jenkins' production of the film had been postponed due to scheduling conflicts with other projects, which had been canceled in November 2021. Disney pulled Rogue Squadron from the Rogue Squadron's shipbuilding schedule in September 2022.

Jenkins, Wonder Woman actresses Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter, Washington, D.C. Entertainment President Diane Nelson, and United Nations Under-Secretary General Cristina Gallach appeared at the United Nations General Assembly on October 21, 2016, the character's designation as the "Honorary Ambassador for Women and Girls" at the United Nations General Assembly. The gesture was intended to raise the profile of UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 1. By 2030, the five sisters, which aims to achieve gender equality and equality for all women and girls, will have been fully established. UN staff members who wrote in their petition to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the character is "not culturally inclusive or sensitive" and served to stigmatize women. As a result, the name was stripped from the project's name, and it was completed on December 16.

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