Shane Black

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shane Black
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Dec 16, 1961(1961-12-16)
Age	63
Birthplace	Pittsburgh
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Shane Black Biography

Shane Black is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on December 16, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Writer and director who made one of the most significant box office successes ever through Iron Man 3 in 2013. He started his career as a screenwriter, writing the action-comedy of 1987 Lethal Weapon.

He was the first director to direct He first directed Robert Downey Jr. in 2005’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. in the 2005 film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

After living in the suburbs of Lower Burrell and Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, his family moved to Fullerton, California, during his sophomore year of high school. There he attended Sunny Hills High School and later UCLA where he majored in film and theater and graduated in 1983. While Black had a long history writing comic strips, short stories, and journalism, only during his senior year did he decide to make a living from it once his classmate Fred Dekker showed him a science fiction script he did for an assignment. Black’s older brother Terry also wrote short stories and decided to move into screenplays starting with 1988’s Dead Heat, in which Shane has a cameo.

After graduating, Black worked as a typist for a temp agency, a data entry clerk for the 1984 Summer Olympics and an usher in a Westwood movie theater. Eventually he asked for financial support of his parents during the six-month development of a script, The Shadow Company, a supernatural thriller set in Vietnam. With Dekker’s help, the script landed him an agent and several lunch meetings with mid-level studio executives. This attracted 20th Century Fox executives, who were interested in having Black rewrite scripts. Eventually Black wrote an action film script, Lethal Weapon, in about six weeks, which landed him a $250,000 deal with Warner Bros. During the rewrites, Black asked producer Joel Silver for a small acting role in another film Silver was preparing at the time, Predator, a film for which Black also made uncredited contributions to the script. At the same time, Black helped Dekker write The Monster Squad, which along with Lethal Weapon and Predator came out in 1987. Since then, Black has acted in five additional films and in two episodes for the TV series Dark Justice.

The brother of his screenwriter is Terry Black.

Shane Black Net Worth

Shane Black is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shane Black 's net worth $16 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His birthplace was in Pittsburgh and went on to study film and theatre at UCLA.

He played an uncredited actor part in the action-film Predator.

Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American filmmaker and actor who has written such films as Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2, The Monster Squad, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero and The Long Kiss Goodnight. As an actor, Black is best known for his role as Rick Hawkins in Predator (1987).

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Shane Black Dating?

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Black received the Distinguished Screenwriter Award from the Austin Film Festival October 21, 2006. In 2005, he received the Best Original Screenplay award for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang from the San Diego Film Critics Association.

Facts & Trivia

Shane Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Shane Black celebrates birthday on December 16 of every year.

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Top Facts about Shane Black

1. Shane Black was born on December 16, 1961.
2. He wrote the screenplay for Lethal Weapon at age 23.
3. Black directed Iron Man 3, which grossed over $1 billion.
4. He has a net worth of approximately $30 million.
5. Black’s directorial debut was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005.
6. He played Hawkins in the original Predator film (1987).
7. Black co-wrote and directed The Nice Guys (2016).
8. His films have grossed over $2 billion worldwide.
9. Black won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Lethal Weapon.
10. He is known for his witty dialogue and action-packed scripts.