Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra
Collet-Serra in June 2015
Born	(1974-03-23) 23 March 1974 (age 42) Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Spain
Occupation	Film director producer
Years active	2005–present

Jaume Collet-Serra (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈʒawmə kuˈʎɛt ˈsɛrə]; born 23 March 1974) is a Spanish film director and producer. He is known for directing the horror remake House of Wax (2005), the psychological thriller Orphan (2009), the action-thrillers Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), and Run All Night (2015), and the survival horror-thriller The Shallows (2016).

Collet-Serra was born in Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Spain. Soon after graduating, he began his career as an editor before moving on to direct music videos and television commercials for companies such as Sony, Budweiser, and Verizon.

In 2005, Collet-Serra was given an opportunity to direct his first feature film by producer Joel Silver (The Matrix). The film, House of Wax, was a remake of the 1953 original of the same name. Despite reviewers giving the film a negative critical reception, it was a financial success, and starred Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray. Two years later, Collet-Serra directed Goal II: Living the Dream. The film finds star European soccer player Santiago Muñez (Kuno Becker) bumped by his agent (Stephen Dillane) from England's Newcastle United team to Real Madrid's Galácticos. He reunited with producer Silver for the third film of his career, Orphan, a 2009 American psychological thriller starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman. The film centres on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious nine-year-old girl. Orphan was produced by Joel Silver and Susan Downey of Dark Castle Entertainment and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran of Appian Way Productions. The film received mixed critical reviews but was a box office success.