David Fincher

Briefly lived outside of San Francisco in grade school, while the infamous Zodiac Killer murders were occurring.  Later directed the 2007 film Zodiac about the murders. Lived two doors down from George Lucas while growing up, and worked at the director's Industrial Light & Magic visual-effects company for a few years in the early '80s. Directed a controversial commercial for the American Cancer Society that featured a fetus smoking a cigarette. Directed well-known music videos for Madonna ("Vogue"), Paula… Show more Abdul ("Cold Hearted"), Aerosmith ("Janie's Got a Gun") and George Michael ("Freedom '90"). Made his feature-film directorial debut in 1992 with the sci-fi sequel  Alien³ . Cast Rooney Mara as the lead in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) after she played a small role in his previous film, The Social Network (2010). ~ Rovi

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