



His parents were both born to Russian Jewish immigrant families. Steven Allan Spielberg was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Leah Frances (Posner), a concert pianist and restaurateur, and Arnold Spielberg, an electrical engineer who worked in computer development. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, producer or writer since launching the summer blockbuster with Щелепи (1975), and he has done more to define popular film-making since the mid-1970s than anyone else. One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best knownĭirector and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world.
