Robin Swicord
| Robin Swicord | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Robin Stender Swicord October 23, 1952 Columbia, South Carolina US |
| Alma mater | Florida State University |
| Occupation |
Screenwriter Director |
| Years active | 1979-present |
| Known for | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| Notable work |
Little Women The Jane Austen Book Club |
| Spouse(s) | Nicholas Kazan (m. 1984) |
| Children | 2 |
Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter and film director. She is known for literary adaptions. In 2008, her screenplay for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. She wrote the screenplay for the film Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Golden, for which she won a 2005 Satellite Award. Her other screenplay credits include Little Women, Practical Magic, Matilda, The Perez Family, and Shag.
Swicord was born in Columbia, South Carolina, the daughter of Jean Carroll Swicord (née Stender) and businessman Henry "Hank" Grady Swicord II. Swicord's father was in the military, so the family moved often and she spent a large part of her childhood in Barcelona, Spain, until eventually settling in Florida. She has a brother, Steven Swicord.
Swicord said she always wrote as a child, and that later as she continued writing in college, became interested in screenplays because they were visual in nature.
She graduated from Florida State University, where she double-majored in English and Theater, with an emphasis on stagecraft. While at Florida State, Swicord worked as a photographer at the school newspaper, Florida Flambeau.
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