Woody Allen

**Woody Allen** (born **Allen Stewart Konigsberg**; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans over 50 years. He has won the Academy Award three times, and many others in his very long career. His many works and his cerebral movie style, mixing satire and humour, have made him one of the most respected movie directors in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in most of them. To inspire himself for his movies, Allen uses literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived all life.

## Early life

Allen was born at Mount of Eden Hospital in The Bronx, He was raised in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Nettie (born Cherrie; November 8, 1906 – January 27, 2002), a bookkeeper at her family's delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg (December 25, 1900 – January 13, 2001), a jewellery engraver and waiter. His family was Ashkenazi Jewish; his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. Both parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Allen has a sister, Letty, who was born in 1943, and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn.

## Career

Allen started writing scripts for _The Ed Sullivan Show_, _The Tonight Show_ and other television shows when he was 19. He started working as a comedian in 1961. His first movie, _What's New Pussycat?_, was released in 1965. In 1966, he wrote his first play, the Broadway play _Don't Drink The Water_. In 1986. Allen's movie _Hannah and Her Sisters_ made $18 million.

## Personal life

Allen is a vociferous atheist, but of Jewish descent.

Allen has had three wives. He dated Mia Farrow for 12 years. However, they never married and lived in different houses. Allen and Farrow adopted Dylan and Mosche Farrow together. Mia said in 1994 that Allen molested her 7-year-old daughter, Dylan Farrow. In February 2014 an open letter by Dylan was published by the _New York Times_. In the letter, Dylan said that Allen had molested her. Her brother Mosche, who is now known as Moses Farrow, said that Allen did not molest her. Allen said the allegations were "untrue and disgraceful". On February 7, 2014, Allen wrote a response to Dylan in the _New York Times_.

In 1992 Farrow realized that Allen was cheating on her with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. She found naked pictures of Soon-yi in Allen's house. Farrow and Allen broke up. In 1997, Allen married Previn. Previn and Allen have two adopted daughters.

### Movies

|rowspan="2" style="width:26px;"|Year|rowspan="2" style="width:275px;"|Film|colspan="4"|Credited as||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|1965|_What's New Pussycat?_||||Victor Shakapopulis|
|style="text-align:center;"|1966|_What's Up, Tiger Lily?_||||Himself / Various voices|
|style="text-align:center;"|1967|_Casino Royale_||||Dr. Noah / Jimmy Bond|
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1969|_Don't Drink the Water_|||||
|_Take the Money and Run_||||Virgil Starkwell|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1971|_Bananas_||||Fielding Mellish|
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1972|_Play It Again, Sam_||||Allan Felix|
|_Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)_||||Victor Shakapopulis / Fabrizio / The Fool / Sperm #1|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1973|_Sleeper_||||Miles Monroe|
|style="text-align:center;"|1975|_Love and Death_||||Boris Grushenko|
|style="text-align:center;"|1976|__||||Howard Prince|
|style="text-align:center;"|1977|_Annie Hall_||||Alvy Singer|
|style="text-align:center;"|1978|_Interiors_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1979|_Manhattan_||||Isaac Davis|
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1980|_Stardust Memories_||||Sandy Bates|
|_To Woody Allen, From Europe with Love_||||Himself|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1982|__||||Andrew|
|style="text-align:center;"|1983|_Zelig_||||Leonard Zelig|
|style="text-align:center;"|1984|_Broadway Danny Rose_||||Danny Rose|
|style="text-align:center;"|1985|__|||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|1986|__||||Himself|
|_Meetin' WA_||||Himself|||
|_Hannah and Her Sisters_||||Mickey Sachs|||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|1987|_Radio Days_||||Joe (voice)|
|_September_|||||||
|_King Lear_||||Mr. Alien|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1988|_Another Woman_|||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1989|_New York Stories_ (segment: _Oedipus Wrecks_)||||Sheldon|
|_Crimes and Misdemeanors_||||Cliff Stern|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1990|_Alice_|||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1991|_Scenes from a Mall_||||Nick Fifer|
|_Shadows and Fog_||||Kleinman|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1992|_Husbands and Wives_||||Gabe Roth|
|style="text-align:center;"|1993|_Manhattan Murder Mystery_||||Larry Lipton|
|style="text-align:center;"|1994|_Bullets Over Broadway_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|1995|_Mighty Aphrodite_||||Lenny Weinrib|
|style="text-align:center;"|1996|_Everyone Says I Love You_||||Joe Berlin|
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1997|_Deconstructing Harry_||||Harry Block|
|_Wild Man Blues_||||Himself|||
|_Antz_||||Z (voice)|||
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|1998|_AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies_||||Himself|
|_Celebrity_|||||||
|__||||Audition Director|||
|style="text-align:center;"|1999|_Sweet and Lowdown_||||Narrator|
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2000|_Company Man_||||American Ambassador|
|_Small Time Crooks_||||Ray|||
|_Light Keeps Me Company_||||Himself|||
|_Picking Up the Pieces_||||Tex Crowley|||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2001|__||||C.W. Briggs|
|_Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures_||||Himself|||
|style="text-align:center;"|2002|_Hollywood Ending_||||Val Waxman|
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2003|__||||Himself|
|_Anything Else_||||David Dobel|||
|_Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin_||||Himself|||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2004|_François Truffaut, une Autobiographie_||||Himself|
|_Melinda and Melinda_|||||||
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2005|__||||Himself|
|_The Outsider_||||Himself|||
|_Match Point_|||||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2006|_Scoop_||||Sid Waterman|
|_Home_||||Himself|||
|style="text-align:center;"|2007|_Cassandra's Dream_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2008|_Vicky Cristina Barcelona_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2009|_Whatever Works_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2010|_You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2011|_Midnight in Paris_|||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2012|_Paris Manhattan_||||Himself|
|_To Rome with Love_||||Jerry|||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2013|_Blue Jasmine_|||||
|_Fading Gigolo_||||Murray|||
|style="text-align:center;"|2014|_Magic in the Moonlight_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2015|_Irrational Man_|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2016|_Café Society_||||Narrator (voice)|
|style="text-align:center;"|2017|_Wonder Wheel_|||||
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2019|_Woody's Roundup: The Movie_||||Woody's Roundup Announcer (voice)|
|_A Rainy Day in New York_|||||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2020|_Rifkin's Festival_|||||

## Other websites

- IMP Poster Gallery
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
- Woody Allen Movies
- La De Da: _Annie Hall_ as Divine Tragicomedy  Essay Extended version of essay
- Woody Allen in Barcelona. The shooting of a film.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Woody Allen
- **image**: Woody Allen Cannes 2016.jpg
- **caption**: Allen in Cannes 2016
- **birth name**: Allen Stewart Konigsberg
- **birth place**: The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
- **years active**: 1956–present
- **relatives**: Letty Aronson
- **awards**: List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen, See Awards and Nominations
- **signature**: Woody Allen signature.svg