Alan Taylor Net Worth 2023, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Salary, Movies, TV Shows

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Introduction

Alan Taylor is an American television director, film director, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his work on television series such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones. He also directed films such as Palookaville, Thor: The Dark World, Terminator Genisys, and The Many Saints of Newark.

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Taylor won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for The Sopranos episode “Kennedy and Heidi”. In 2008 and 2018 he was also nominated in the same category for the Mad Men episode “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and the Game of Thrones episode “Beyond the Wall”, respectively.

Early life

Name	Alan Taylor
Net Worth	$5 million
Occupation	Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Age	64 years
Height	1.83m

Alan Taylor net worth

Alan Taylor was born on January 13, 1959 (age 64 years) in the United States. He is the son of American parents. His father, James J. Taylor, was a private in the U.S. Army translating for Voice of America, stationed in Yokohama, who subsequently held numerous jobs before becoming a videographer in Washington, D.C.

Taylor’s mother, Mimi Cazort, was curator emerita for the National Gallery of Canada. His sister is the indie rock musician Anna Domino. He spent part of his life in Manor Park, Ottawa, Canada, and attended Manor Park Public School and Lisgar Collegiate Institute high school. As part of the Communications Club at Lisgar, he acted in its production of The Mouse That Roared.

He went on to major in history at the University of Toronto and then at New York City’s Columbia University before transferring to New York University in his late 20s to study film under instructors including director Martin Scorsese.

Career

Alan Taylor has directed numerous programs on both network television and premium cable, most often on HBO. Taylor’s early work on television includes work on The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and The West Wing.

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Taylor joined the crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a director for the first season in 2004. He directed the pilot episodes of Mad Men (“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”) and Bored to Death as well as subsequent episodes of each.

He joined the HBO series Game of Thrones, directing seven episodes including the critically acclaimed season 1 episode “Baelor.” He worked on a television adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers’ 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic for the WGN America network. Besides his television work, Taylor’s early films include Palookaville, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and Kill the Poor.

In the 2010s, Alan Taylor began working on large-budget blockbuster films. He was hired to direct Thor: The Dark World (2013) a superhero film and sequel to 2011’s Thor. He was approached by Marvel producer Kevin Feige following director Patty Jenkins’s exit from the project and hoped he would inject a darker tone into the project after seeing Taylor’s work on Game of Thrones.

Alan Taylor’s next film was Terminator Genisys, a film that Taylor hoped to fix following his reading of the script, citing his love of the first two Terminator films. After directing nine episodes for the HBO series The Sopranos, Taylor was approached by show creator David Chase to return to direct the 2021 prequel film The Many Saints of Newark.

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In August 2022, it was announced that Taylor was hired to direct multiple episodes of the second season of House of the Dragon. He is one of the richest and most influential film directors in the United States. He stands at an appealing height of 1.83m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.

Wife

Alan Taylor was married to his longtime wife Nicki Ledermann, they had their wedding in 2004 and divorced in 2020. His ex-wife is an award-winning makeup artist and they have three children together. As of April 2023, Alan is single and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.