Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning Foreign Language Film Tsotsi . He is the director of the 20th Century Fox film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on 1 May 2009. Hood was born in Johannesburg. He was educated at St. Stithians College and the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied law, and at the film school of the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. He first came to the South African public's attention when he starred in the SABC TV production The... Game, a drama series focusing on the game of rugby union. Hood got his start at directing when he was commissioned to make several short educational dramas for the South African Department of Health. He directed his first commercial short film, The Storekeeper, in 1998. His first feature film, A Reasonable Man, followed in 1999. The film portrays the accidental killing of a young child who is mistaken for a tokoloshe. He also starred in, co-produced and wrote the script for this movie.
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