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Ned Benson

Directing

Birth Date

April 3, 1977

Place of Birth

New York, New York, U.S.A.

Biography

Ned Benson (born April 3, 1977) is an American filmmaker. He attended Deerfield Academy and graduated from Columbia University in 2001. Benson had a long-term relationship with Jessica Chastain, but they broke up in 2010. After working on The Westerner, Benson made his directorial debut film, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. After Chastain asked questions about the background, Benson wrote another script devoted entirely to her perspective, and she joined the cast. It was shot as two films simultaneously. They were premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival under the title The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her.Benson later edited the films into one film, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The Weinstein Company had a limited release in September 2014. On January 16, 2019, Benson and Jac Schaeffer served as story writers for Black Widow. He was later replaced by Eric Pearson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ned Benson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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