Karyn Kusama
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Raised in St. Louis to a Japanese-American psychiatrist father and a Scots-Irish mother, she earned a BFA in Film & Television from NYU’s Tisch School and honed her craft through varied jobs-including editing documentaries and assisting John Sayles-while training as a boxer, an experience that later shaped her debut feature. Her first film, a gritty sports drama, captured both the Director’s Prize…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
