Abel Ferrara

Birthday: July 19, 1951

Independent New York filmmaker Abel Ferrara became best-known for his low-budget, shockingly violent films that explore the roughest parts of the Big Apple and the darkest reaches of the human soul, with films such as China Girl (1987) -- his unique version of +Romeo and Juliet -- generating a devoted following. Ferrara was born in the Bronx, but spent most of his childhood in ...more