About
Director of the critically acclaimed films Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ironweed.
Before Fame
His breakout film Pixote, which was about Brazil's impoverished children, came out in 1981.
Trivia
He underwent a bone marrow transplant to cure lymphatic cancer in 1994.
Family Life
His father was from the Ukraine and his mother was a Polish-Jewish immigrant.
Associated With
He acted alongside Javier Bardem in the Oscar-nominated 2000 film Before Night Falls.
