Known For: American filmmaker (born 1959)
Category: Directors
Occupation: actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer, film editor, film actor, executive producer, director
Country: United States of America
City: Royal Oak
Date of Birth: Friday, 23 October 1959
Language English
Samuel M. Raimi is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing the first three films in the Evil Dead franchise (1981–present) and the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007). He also directed the superhero movie Darkman (1990), the revisionist western The Quick and the Dead (1995), the neo-noir crime thriller A Simple Plan (1998), the supernatural thriller The Gift (2000), the supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell (2009), the Disney fantasy Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and the Marvel Studios film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).
| BirthPlace | Royal Oak |
| Education | Q270222, Q4916710 |
| Awards | Q2687578, Q24051550, Q25405526, Q3101822 |
| Spouses | Gillian Greene |
| Children | Lorne Raimi, Henry Raimi, Oliver Raimi |
| Relatives | Ted Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Lorne Greene |
| Wikipedia | Sam_Raimi |
Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, to a Conservative Jewish family. He is a son of merchants Celia Barbara (née Abrams) and Leonard Ronald Raimi. His ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Hungary. His younger brother Ted is an actor, and his older brother Ivan is a screenwriter and physician. His older sister, Andrea Raimi Rubin, is a court reporter. Another older brother, Sander, died at 15 in an accidental drowning in Israel; Raimi has said that the trauma knitted the remaining family closer together and "colored everything he's done for the rest of his life". Raimi also mentioned that Sander first introduced him to Spider-Man, igniting his love for comics. Raimi graduated from Groves High School and later went on to attend both Michigan State University and Università Bocconi, where he studied English but left after three semesters to film The Evil Dead.
