Biography
Catherine Hardwicke is an American film director, production designer and screenwriter. She studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and film at UCLA before working as a production designer on features including Three Kings (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001) and Lords of Dogtown (2005).
Hardwicke made her directorial debut with Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed. Subsequent films include The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Miss You Already (2015), Miss Bala (2019) and Mafia Mamma (2023). The opening weekend of Twilight set a record at the time for a female director.
