Heywood “Woody” Allen, an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian with a career spanning more than six decades and numerous Academy Award-winning productions, was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on November 30, 1935.
He started out as a television writer in the 1950s, mostly for Your Show of Shows (1950–1954), when he collaborated with Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. In addition, he authored a number of books with short tales and contributed humorous essays to The New Yorker. He shared the stage in Greenwich Village with Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers during the beginning of the 1960s.
Instead of using conventional jokes, he created a monologue style there, adopting the persona of an educated, anxious, nervous nebbish. In the middle to end of the 1960s, he put out three comedic albums.
His 1964 comedy album, simply titled Woody Allen, received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album. On a list of the top 100 stand-up comedians published by Comedy Central in 2004, Allen was voted number four, while a UK survey placed him as the third-best comedian.
From the middle of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s, Allen was a key figure in the New Hollywood movement. Allen and Diane Keaton starred in the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), which won four Oscars. His work from the 1980s has been referred to as his most mature.
He has won four Academy Awards and nine British Academy Film Awards. In 2014, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Writers Guild of America named Annie Hall first on its list of the “101 Funniest Screenplays”.
Woody Allen family, wife,
Allen has had three marriages: to Louise Lasser from 1966 to 1970, Soon-Yi Previn since 1997, and Harlene Rosen from 1956 to 1959.
Along with romances with Stacey Nelkin, Diane Keaton, and Mia Farrow, he also had a 12-year relationship with the actress Mia Farrow.
Woody Allen children,
Allen and Mia Farrow worked together on 13 movies over a ten-year period, giving birth to the journalist Ronan Farrow in 1987.
Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia and Andre Previn, and Allen started dating in 1991, which led to the separation of the couple.
Farrow accused Allen of assaulting their adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, then seven years old, in public in 1992. Although Allen adamantly rejected the allegations, they received a lot of media attention. Allen was never indicted or prosecuted.
In 1997, Allen wed Previn, and the two of them adopted two kids.
Allen’s other children are Manzie Tio Allen, Bechet Allen, and Moses Farrow.
Woody Allen parents,
Allen’s birth took place in Mount Eden Hospital in the Bronx even though his family resided in Brooklyn.
He’s Jewish. Allen’s parents were Martin Konigsberg (1900-2001), a jewelry engraver, and Nettie Konigsberg (1906-2002), a bookkeeper at her family’s delicatessen. His ancestors came to this country as immigrants from Austria and Panevys, a city in Lithuania.
Woody Allen siblings
He grew up in Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood with his younger sister, film producer Letty Aronson.
