Woody Allen

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"

"Eighty percent of success is showing up"

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons"

Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian and playwright. He was born December 1st 1935 (79 years old) and was born in The Bronx, New York City.

• He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s
• Writing jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humour pieces.
•  In the beginning of the 1960s, Woody Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, emphasising monologues rather than traditional jokes.
• By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, he started with specialising in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material, which was influenced by European Art Cinema during the 1970s. His  best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), and Hannah and Her Sisters(1986). Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema.
• Woody Allen has been nominated 24 times and won four Academy Awards
• 3 for Best Original Screenplay and 1  for Best Director (Annie Hall).