Noah Baumbach, the third of four siblings, was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 3, 1969. He is the son of the Jewish academic, novelist and critic Jonathan Baumbach, and Protestant mother Georgia Brown, at one time a Village Voice film critic.
Baumback made his debut, Kicking and Screaming in 1995, at the age of 26.
Of the filmmakers of his generation, he has been one of the most reliable consistent and prolific, directing a dozen features (including one weak documentary) in 24 years.
His most fully realized feature to date is The Squid and the Whale, which world premiered to great acclaim at the 2005 Sundance Film Fest, and was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay.
Filmography
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Mr. Jealousy (1997)
Highball (1997)
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Greenberg (2010)
Frances Ha (2012)
While We’re Young (2014)
Mistress America (2015)
De Palma (2015) (documentary)
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
Marriage Story (2019)