Nicole Holofcener Movies and Career Information

Nicole Holofcener (born March 22, 1960) is an American film and television director. She has directed four feature films, most recently Please Give. The daughter of an artist father, Lawrence Holofcener, and a set decorator mother (Carol), Holofcener's parents divorced when she was one year old. When she was eight, her mother married film producer Charles H. Joffe, who moved the family to Hollywood. Since her stepfather produced Woody Allen's films, Nicole spent enough time on Allen's sets to be an extra in Sleeper and Take the Money and Run. Joffe was responsible for Holofcener's first "real" job in the movie industry: a production assistant on Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy in 1982. She moved up to apprentice editor for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Holofcener's first experiences with film as a child left her either frightened or sad; she recalled her fright at Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor. Returning East to college, Holofcener originally wanted to become an artist like her father, but felt she wasn't as talented as others in her classes. From there she gravitated into taking some film courses. She studied film at Columbia University, and made two shorts titled