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name: "Alfonso Gomez-Rejon"
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born: "6 November 1972"
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updated: "2026-09-17T01:13:27.463227+00:00"
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# Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Director. Born 6 November 1972 in Laredo, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 6 November 1972, Laredo, Texas, USA

## Biography

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is an American film and television director. Born on 6 November 1972 in Laredo, Texas, he holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the American Film Institute. He began his career as a personal assistant to Martin Scorsese, Nora Ephron and Alejandro González Iñárritu, later working as a second unit director on films including *Babel* (2006), *Julie & Julia* (2009) and *Argo* (2012).

Gomez-Rejon made his feature directorial debut with the slasher film *The Town That Dreaded Sundown* (2014). He subsequently directed the coming-of-age film *Me and Earl and the Dying Girl* (2015) and the historical drama *The Current War* (2017). His television credits include directing episodes of *Glee* (2010–2012) and *American Horror Story* (2011–2014), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie for the episode from *Coven*. He has also directed episodes of *Hunters* (2020).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Glee* (2009), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/glee.md)

## Also known for

- *American Horror Story* (2011), Director
- *Me and Earl and the Dying Girl* (2015), Director
- *Eat Pray Love* (2010), Second Unit Director
- *Spanglish* (2004), Script Consultant
- *The Current War* (2018), Director
- *Hunters* (2020), Director
- *The Town that Dreaded Sundown* (2014), Director
- *Chambers* (2019), Director

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