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Whit Stillman

Whit Stillman
Born John Whitney Stillman
(1952-01-25) January 25, 1952 (age 65)
Washington, D.C.
Alma mater Harvard University (BA, 1973)
Occupation Screenwriter, film director
Years active 1973–present
Notable work Metropolitan (1990)
The Last Days of Disco (1998)

John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 1998 romantic drama The Last Days of Disco. Stillman's newest film Love & Friendship premiered in January 2016, starring Kate Beckinsale playing a widow trying to arrange a marriage for her daughter with a wealthy gentleman whom she eventually marries herself.

Whit Stillman was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C., to Margaret Drinker (née Riley), from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a Democratic politician, John Sterling Stillman, an assistant secretary of commerce under President John F. Kennedy (a classmate of Stillman's father at Harvard), from Washington, D.C. His great-grandfather was businessman James Stillman and his great-great-grandfather, Charles Stillman, was the founder of Brownsville, Texas. Stillman grew up in Cornwall, New York and experienced depression during puberty. "I was very depressed when I was 11 or 12," he told The Wall Street Journal. "I was sent to the leading Freudian child psychologist in Washington, D.C. It was heck. The last thing I needed to talk about was guilt about sex." However, when his parents separated, he found that his depression ceased: "I actually felt healthier."

Stillman's godfather was academic E. Digby Baltzell. He attended the Collegiate School, Potomac School and Millbrook School, and then studied history at Harvard University, where he was a member of the Fly Club and wrote for The Harvard Crimson.


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