Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York.
Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as
a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school,
Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and
animation). He won several film awards after completing his senior
thesis film, "Supermarket Sweep", starring
Sean Gullette, which went on to becoming a
National Student Academy Award finalist. Aronofsky didn't make a
feature film until five years later, in February 1996, where he began
creating the concept for Pi - System im Chaos (1998). After
Darren's script for Pi - System im Chaos (1998) received great
reactions from friends, he began production. The film re-teamed
Aronofsky with Gullette, who played the lead. This went on to further
successes, such as
Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Wrestler - Ruhm, Liebe, Schmerz (2008) and Black Swan (2010). Most recently, he completed the films Noah (2014) and Mother! (2017).
