--- name: "Rob Marshall" canonical: "https://film.one/person/rob-marshall" fi1m_id: "rob-marshall" imdb_id: "nm0551128" tmdb_id: 17633 wikidata_id: "Q353501" roles: ["Director","Producer"] born: "17 October 1960" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 59 average_as: "director" average_over: 6 updated: "2026-10-03T00:23:27.311480+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Rob Marshall ## Identity Rob Marshall - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rob-marshall - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** rob-marshall - **IMDb ID:** nm0551128 - **TMDB ID:** 17633 - **Wikidata ID:** Q353501 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Marshall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353501, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551128/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17633 Director and producer. Born 17 October 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Producer - **Born:** 17 October 1960, Madison, Wisconsin, USA - **Active:** 2002–present - **Also known as:** 롭 마샬 - **Frequently works with:** [Marc Platt](https://film.one/person/marc-platt.md), [John DeLuca](https://film.one/person/john-deluca.md), [David Magee](https://film.one/person/david-magee.md), [Emily Blunt](https://film.one/person/emily-blunt.md), [Johnny Depp](https://film.one/person/johnny-depp.md), [Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://film.one/person/lin-manuel-miranda.md), [Penélope Cruz](https://film.one/person/penelope-cruz.md) - **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 59, as director, over 6 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 60 (2), 2010s 59 (3), 2020s 58 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 59 to 60 across 6 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 3 under 60 - **Genres:** Fantasy 4, Comedy 3, Adventure 2, Drama 2, Family 2, Romance 2 - **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $2,539m across 6 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Marshall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353501, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551128/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17633 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Mary Poppins Returns*](https://film.one/film/mary-poppins-returns.md) (67), [*Into the Woods*](https://film.one/film/into-the-woods.md) (65), [*The Little Mermaid*](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid.md) (58), [*Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides*](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides.md) (45) - **Paramount+:** [*Chicago*](https://film.one/film/chicago.md) (73), [*Nine*](https://film.one/film/nine.md) (46) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Rob Marshall > A Broadway choreographer who directs as he once staged. Rob Marshall can make a room full of bodies move to music, and did it well in *Chicago*. Asked since to build whole worlds, he keeps the numbers and lets the film sag between them. Watch Rob Marshall when there are bodies to move. In *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* (2011), Jack Sparrow swings from a chandelier and rides the roof of a carriage through London, and for a few minutes the film has a lightness it never finds again. In *The Little Mermaid* (2023), Halle Bailey sings 'Part of Your World' and the picture wakes up. Marshall came to film from Broadway, where he danced and then choreographed, and he has never stopped thinking in numbers: a stretch of screen time with a beginning, a build and a finish, after which the lights change. The trouble is what happens when the lights change. He made his screen debut with a television *Annie* in 1999 and his feature debut with *Chicago* (2002), a set of numbers held together by a plot short enough not to get in the way, and the film that made studios believe audiences would sit through singing again. He then tried a period drama without songs, *Memoirs of a Geisha* (2005), and went back to musicals with *Nine* (2009), *Into the Woods* (2014) and *Mary Poppins Returns* (2018), before *The Little Mermaid*. The shape of the career is a man who found one thing he could do superbly and has been asked, ever since, to do something slightly different with it. When the thing he is asked to do is a number, he still delivers. We were frightened, properly, for ten minutes of a 12A about pirates, because Marshall stages the mermaids' arrival in *On Stranger Tides* as he would a song: one figure surfaces beside a rowing boat and sings, then there are more, then the water turns on the sailors, and Dariusz Wolski keeps the faces under the surface visible only when they choose to be. It is the one sequence in that film that remembers the sea is dangerous. Bailey's four minutes in *The Little Mermaid* work the same way; she is given a beginning and an end and nothing to cross. Crossing is where he goes dull. *On Stranger Tides* runs 136 minutes and is mostly a walk. *The Little Mermaid* runs 135, and its second hour is where the caution shows; Dion Beebe, who has shot three of his films, gives the underwater kingdom a grey-green haze that reads as murk, so that Ariel's red hair is often the only thing in the frame we can follow. The complaint about *Into the Woods* was that the camera followed the action and did little else, and we recognise that from the films we have seen. John Myhre on production design and John DeLuca as choreographer and producer build him rooms to stage in. Nobody, on the evidence, builds the corridor between them. He is at his best when the plot is short and the room is small. Someone should give him one of those again. ## Biography Rob Marshall is an American film and theatre director, producer and choreographer. Born on 17 October 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, he was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and trained at Carnegie Mellon University. He began his career in theatre and made his feature-film debut directing the 2002 musical *Chicago*, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Marshall has since directed *Memoirs of a Geisha* (2005), *Nine* (2009), *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* (2011), *Into the Woods* (2014), *Mary Poppins Returns* (2018) and *The Little Mermaid* (2023), on which he also served as producer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee and has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (6) - *The Little Mermaid* (2023), Fi1m 58, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid.md) - *Mary Poppins Returns* (2018), Fi1m 67, Director, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/mary-poppins-returns.md) - *Into the Woods* (2014), Fi1m 65, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/into-the-woods.md) - *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* (2011), Fi1m 45, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides.md) - *Nine* (2009), Fi1m 46, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/nine.md) - *Chicago* (2002), Fi1m 73, Director, Choreographer — [page](https://film.one/film/chicago.md) ## Complete filmography (14) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Little Mermaid* (2023), Producer, Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid.md) - *Mary Poppins Returns* (2018), Director, Producer, Story, Choreographer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/mary-poppins-returns.md) - *Into the Woods* (2014), Director, Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/into-the-woods.md) - *Chicago in the Spotlight: A Retrospective with the Cast and Crew* (2014), Director - *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides* (2011), Director — Fi1m 45, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides.md) - *Nine* (2009), Director, Producer, Choreographer — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/nine.md) - *Tony Bennett: An American Classic* (2006), Executive Producer, Director - *Memoirs of a Geisha* (2005), Director - *Chicago* (2002), Director, Choreographer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/chicago.md) - *Annie* (1999), Director, Choreographer - *Cinderella* (1997), Choreographer - *Mrs. Santa Claus* (1996), Choreographer - *Victor/Victoria* (1996), Choreographer - *Guys and Dolls*, Director, Screenplay, Producer ## Gallery - ![Rob Marshall speaking at a ceremony for Penélope Cruz to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/17828/gallery-309c69c6ab87.jpg) Rob Marshall speaking at a ceremony for Penélope Cruz to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (2011) — Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/RobMarshallApr2011.jpg/1280px-RobMarshallApr2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Rob Marshall](https://film.one/media/person/17828/gallery-d283464e5c40.jpg) Rob Marshall — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2003: Best Director (nominated), for *Chicago* ### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won - 2007: Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series (won), for *Duets: An American Classic* ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical 1998: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (nominated) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/rob-marshall