Karyn Kusama
| Karyn Kusama | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Karyn Kiyoko Kusama March 21, 1968 St. Louis, Missouri United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California United States |
| Education | New York University |
| Occupation | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Known for | Girlfight, Jennifer's Body, The Invitation |
| Home town | St. Louis, Missouri United States |
| Spouse(s) | Phil Hay (2006–present) |
| Children | 1 |
Karyn Kusama (born March 21, 1968) is an American independent film director known for the 2000 film Girlfight, which she wrote, directed, and produced. Kusama went on to direct 2005's Æon Flux and 2009's Jennifer's Body. She directed the 2015 horror film, The Invitation, and has recently worked as a television director.
Kusama grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, to father Haruo Kusama, a child psychiatrist, and mother Susan Kusama (née McGuire), an educational psychiatrist. Her father is Japanese and her mother is white.
Kusama graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1990, Kusama received a BFA in Film & TV from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
After graduating from NYU, where she won a Mobile Prize for a student film called Sleeping Beauties, Kusama worked as an editor on documentary films, in production on independent film and music videos, as a nanny, and painting houses. Through her nanny job she met filmmaker John Sayles and worked as his assistant for three years while he was making the film, Lone Star, as well as the development of his films Men with Guns and Limbo. While working for Sayles, she continued to write screenplays. In 1992, Kusama started boxing at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, training with Hector Roca. She began collecting ideas for Girlfight, but didn't start writing it until two years later.
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