- Date of Birth: 12 May, 1963
- Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Biography: Gavin Hood (born May 12, 1963, in Johannesburg, South Africa) is filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and director the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi (2005). He is the director of the 20th Century Fox film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released May 1, 2009.
Filmography
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
- Rendition (2007)
- Tsotsi (2005)
- In Enemy Hands (2005)
- King Solomon's Mines (2004)
- W pustyni i w puszczy (In Desert and Wilderness) (2001)
- A Reasonable Man (1999)
- Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday (1998)
- Rhodes (1998)
- 52 Regent East (1993)
- American Kickboxer (1991)
News
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Gavin Hood Talks Wolverine 2 & District 9
screenrant.com –
2009-10-16
Hood: 'I'd love to direct Magneto film'
digitalspy.co.uk –
2009-09-22


ACLU Interveiw with Gavin Hood, director of "Rendition"
"Rendition" di Gavin Hood
Conferenza Stampa/Press Conference "Wolverine - The Origins" Hugh Jackman e Gavin Hood/Part4
Wolverine - Gavin Hood II