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Roman Polanski (born Raymond Roman Thierry Polanski, 18 August ) is a French-Polish movie director, producer, writer and actor. In , he won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist.^[1]p[2]p

Personal life

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Polanski was born in Paris, France but his family moved back to Poland in ^[3]p[4]p His parents were agnostics.^[5] Because the family was Jewish,^[6] they were persecuted by the Nazis in Poland and forced to live in a ghetto.^[1]p2/4 Polanski's mother died at Auschwitz.^[7]p2 He later went to film school at Lodz ^[8] and graduated in Polanski won many awards for his short movies and went on to make full-length movies in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Polanski's first marriage was to actress Barbara Lass in ; they divorced in ^[9]

While filming the movie Fearless Vampire Killers he met an act