Todd Field

Born: 24 February 1964
Where: Pomona, California

Field skipped college to move to New York to study acting. Once there, he began performing as both an actor and musician, and won his debut role in Woody Allen's Radio Days.

In 1989 he landed his first major part alongside future production partner Matthew Modine in Gross Anatomy, as well as writing a song for the soundtrack.

Field teamed up with Victor Nunez for the director's award-winning character study Ruby in Paradise. He received positive reviews and seemed poised for bigger and better things, but instead, Field took time off to study directing at the American Film Institute.

He made several short films including Too Romantic, the Sundance-screened Smoking (co-directed with Matthew Modine), Delivering, When I Was a Boy and Nonnie and Alex, which earned an honourable mention at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.

Resuming his acting career, he was cast alongside off screen pal Eric Stoltz in Sleep With Me, and enjoyed box-office success with the blockbuster Twister.

While biding his time in search of the perfect project with which to make his feature directorial debut, Field remained busy in front of the camera, with small roles in The Haunting and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.

2001 marked Field's feature directorial debut. Adapting a short story by Andre Dubus, Field co-wrote and directed In the Bedroom, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival to a rapturous reaction.