Tamara Jenkins (born May 2, 1962) is an American screenwriter, actress and director. She is best known for her two feature films, Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) and The Savages (2007).
Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Lillian and Manuel Jenkins. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Italian American. After her parents divorced, her father, a car salesman and former nightclub owner, took custody of her and her thre...
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Tamara Jenkins (born May 2, 1962) is an American screenwriter, actress and director. She is best known for her two feature films, Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) and The Savages (2007).
Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Lillian and Manuel Jenkins. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Italian American. After her parents divorced, her father, a car salesman and former nightclub owner, took custody of her and her three brothers, moving the family to California to work as a car salesman. She lived in Beverly Hills with her father and brothers and attended Beverly Hills High for a year and a half, during which legal custody of Jenkins was awarded to her oldest brother.
A stage actor and a performance artist in New York's East Village during the 1980s, she enrolled in the Graduate Filmmaking program at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts in the '90s. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, Jenkins also attended the Sundance...
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