Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Born: 1962
Where: San Francisco
The former child actor-turned-director first made his name behind the camera with How Stella Got Her Groove Back in 1998.
Starting as a stage actor, Sullivan began winning TV parts and landed the role of Tommy in Happy Days.
Big screen roles followed in More American Grafitti, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and Night Shift.
By the end of the 1980s, he'd begun to make a name for himself as a television writer/director, working on shows such as Fame, Frank's Place and I'll Fly Away.
"I'm not interested in making Chinese food when you're hungry later. I want you to leave the cinema having had a good time and later going 'there's something in there that speaks to me',"
Sullivan's second feature was Barbershop 2: Back in Business, starring Ice Cube and Queen Latifah.
Recent work includes Guess Who, his remake of the 1967 classic Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.
