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 Best Known As: Film Director

Gist: Roman Raymond Pola?ski (born August 18, 1933) is a Polish-French film director, writer, actor and producer.

Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated Academy Award-winning director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974).

Polanski is one of the world's best known contemporary film directors.

He is also known for his turbulent and controversial personal life.

Polanski survived the Holocaust in German occupied Poland during WWII.

In 1969, his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson Family.

In 1977, he was arrested in Los Angeles and pleaded guilty to "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor", a 13-year-old girl.

Released after a 42-day psychiatric evaluation, Polanski fled to France.

He is considered by U.S. authorities to be a fugitive from justice and cannot return to the United States without risking arrest and imprisonment.

Polanski has since avoided visits to countries that were likely to extradite him, such as the United Kingdom.

As a French citizen, he is protected by France's limited extradition with the United States, and Poland is also unlikely to extradite him.

He travels mostly between France, where he resides, and Poland.

Polanski has continued to direct films in Europe, including Frantic (1988), Death and the Maiden (1994), The Ninth Gate (1999), the Academy Award-winning (for best director) and Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or-winning The Pianist (2002), and Oliver Twist (2005).

He has also done occasional work in theatre and in the films of other directors.

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