The film director and writer Mark Stephen Waters He was born on June 30, 1964 in the town of Wyandotte (Michigan), in the United States. His brother is the actor and director Daniel Waters. He studied Film at the American Film Institute.
His first job as a writer and director was in the dramatic comedy “The House of Yes“, released in 1997. He then shot the feature film”How to lose your mind“(2001), starring Monica potter Y Freddie Prinze Jr.; to which they would follow “put yourself in my place“(2003), with Jamie Lee Curtis Y Lindsay Lohan; “Bad Girls“(2004), where he again directed Lindsay Lohan; Y “I wish it were true“(2005), romantic comedy whose cast headed Reese witherspoon Y Mark Ruffalo.
In 2008 he directed the fantasy film “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, the cast of which was headed by the young man. Freddie highmore; and a year later he did the same with “The ghosts of my ex-girlfriends“(2009), another romantic comedy that this time featured the protagonists of Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer garner Y Emma Stone. That same year he produced the feature film “500 days together“(2009), with Zooey Deschanel, Y Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
His latest work recently released and starring by Jim Carrey, it is “Daddy’s penguins“(2011), which narrates the crazy misadventures of a smart New Yorker, when he receives five penguins from Antarctica as a gift.
In his personal life, Waters he married the actress Dina spybey in November 2000. The director has a daughter named Zoe. In 2006 he was one of 120 invited to join the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.