- Born
- Birth nameJoshua Jacob Marston
- Joshua Marston earned an MFA in filmmaking from New York University in 1998. Prior to that he received an MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a BA in Social Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1991-92 he taught English at a high school in Prague. He speaks French, Spanish and Italian and has also studied Czech, German and Albanian. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014) and a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Guy Bellinger
- Has directed one Oscar nominated performance: Catalina Sandino Moreno in Maria Full of Grace (2004).
- Went to the same High School as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Corben Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, and Richard Dreyfuss.
- Speaks Spanish.
- Once studied political science at a grad school but did not like it and left.
- Studied film and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
- [on Maria Full of Grace (2004)] About a year into the process, I realized that aside from making the film about a girl who lived very far away, I was making a film about a girl who was doing something universal in trying to figure out the meaning of her life.
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