| Birth Day | February 7, 1946 |
| Birth Place | Argentina |
| Age | 74 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | Jul 13, 2016 (age 70) |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Director of the critically acclaimed films Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ironweed.
His breakout film Pixote, which was about Brazil's impoverished children, came out in 1981.
He underwent a bone marrow transplant to cure lymphatic cancer in 1994.
His father was from the Ukraine and his mother was a Polish-Jewish immigrant.
He acted alongside Javier Bardem in the Oscar-nominated 2000 film Before Night Falls.
