Eli Raphael Roth is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is known for his role as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Award and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award . He is part of a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack, because of their dedication to the genre and their relentless horror films. Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Dr. Sheldon Roth, a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and Cora Roth, a painter. His grandparents emigrated from Austria,... Russia, and Poland; Roth was raised Jewish. Roth began shooting films at the age of eight after watching Ridley Scott's Alien . He made over 50 short films with his brothers Adam and Gabe before graduating at Newton South High School and attending film school at New York University, from which he graduated in 1994. By the age of 20, and while still a student at NYU, Roth ran the office of producer Frederick Zollo, eventually leaving to devote himself to writing full-time.
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