Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski (Polish: Polański , pə-LAN-skee, [ˈrɔman pɔˈlaj̃skʲi] (Listen); born Raymond Thierry Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. Polanski is also a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country in 1977 while awaiting sentencing for unlawful intercourse with a minor.His Polish-Jewish parents moved the family back from Paris to Kraków in 1937. Two years later, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany starting World War II and the Polanskis found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roman Polanski has received more than 18,387,966 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Roman Polanski is the 7th most popular film director (up from 10th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from France (up from 134th in 2019) and the most popular French Film Director.

Roman Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is most famous for directing the films Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, and The Pianist.