Eli Roth Biography

Eli Raphael Roth was born in Newton Massachusetts to Cora a painter and Sheldon Roth a psychoanalyst psychiatrist and clinical professor. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent (from Austria Hungary Russia and Poland). He began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight after watching Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) and vomiting and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director. With his brothers and friends ketchup for blood and his father's power tools he made over fifty short films before attending film school at N.Y.U. where he won a student Academy Award and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1994. He worked in film and theater production in New York City for many years doing every job from production assistant to assistant editor to assistant to the director. At the age of 20 Roth was development head for producer Fred Zollo a position he soon left to write full time.
To earn a living Roth did budgets and schedules for the films A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Illuminata (1998) and often worked as a stand-in where he could watch directors work with the actors. In 1995 Roth co-wrote the script that would eventually become Cabin Fever (2002) with friend Randy Pearlstein and the two spent many years unsuccessfully trying to get the film financed. Roth left New York in 1999 to live in Los Angeles and within four months got funding for his animation series Chowdaheads (1999). Roth and friend Noah Belson (Cabin Fever (2002)'s Guitar Man) wrote and voiced the episodes which Roth produced directed and designed. The episodes were due to run on W.C.W.'s #1 rated series WCW Monday Nitro (1995) but the C.E.O. was fired a day before they were scheduled to air and the episodes never ran. Roth used the episodes to set up a stop motion series called The Rotten Fruit (2003) which he produced directed and animated as well as co-wrote and voiced with friend Belson.

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