Greg Glienna
Glienna (born in Chicago, Illinois, August 23, 1963) is an American director and screenwriter best known as the creator of the original 1992 film Meet the Parents. Glienna also wrote A Guy Thing and wrote and directed Relative Strangers. He is also the co-author (with Mary Ruth Clarke) of the play Suffer the Long Night which had its Los Angeles premiere August 2008.
Also recorded as Greg M. Glienna
Greg Glienna
- Name
- Greg Glienna
- Born
- 23 August 1963
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Occupation
- Director, producer, writer
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Maine South High School
- Languages
- English
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Glienna (born in Chicago, Illinois, August 23, 1963) is an American director and screenwriter best known as the creator of the original 1992 film Meet the Parents. Glienna also wrote A Guy Thing and wrote and directed Relative Strangers. He is also the co-author (with Mary Ruth Clarke) of the play Suffer the Long Night which had its Los Angeles premiere August 2008.
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• Name — Greg Glienna • Born — 23 August 1963 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, United States • Occupation — Director, producer, writer
Life and career
Life and career
Glienna grew up in the Park Ridge suburb of Chicago and took an interest in filmmaking from an early age, often working alongside his childhood friend James Vincent, who later produced the original Meet the Parents. He attended Columbia College Chicago before dropping out to study improvisational comedy at The Second City while continuing to make short films. He conceived of the core idea for the original Meet the Parents after acting out a scene with a friend wherein he portrayed a man meeting his girlfriend's father, turning it into a short film entitled The Vase, in which he played a man meeting both of his girlfriend's parents who breaks their prized vase. Hoping to make this concept into a full-length feature, Glienna wrote the 80-page screenplay for Meet the Parents alongside Mary Ruth Clarke in one month, to the approval of comedian Emo Philips, who signed on as a producer, wrote the film's title theme, and cameoed as a video store employee.
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Director
• The Road Dog (2023) • Slutvinka: With Love, from Russia! (2013) • The Coin Machine (2012) • The Elevator (2010) • Relative Strangers (2006) • Desperation Boulevard (1998) • The Can Man (1992) • Meet the Parents (1992)
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Actor
• Slutvinka: With Love, from Russia! (2013) • The Coin Machine (2012) • The Elevator (2010) • Desperation Boulevard (1998) • Meet the Parents (1992)
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Producer
• The Elevator (2010) • Meet the Parents (2000)
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1963
Greg Glienna born at Chicago.
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• Slutvinka: With Love, from Russia! (2013) • The Coin Machine (2012) • Little Fockers (2010) (characters) • The Elevator (2010) • Relative Strangers (2006) (screenplay) (story) • Meet the Fockers (2004) (characters) • A Guy Thing (2003) (screenplay) (story) • Meet the Parents (2000) (1992 screenplay) (story) • Desperation Boulevard (1998) • Meet the Parents (1992)
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Greg Glienna is recorded as film director, actor, screenwriter and writer.
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