James McTeigue

58, from Sydney, Australia

Artwork for The Matrix ResurrectionsImage of James McTeigue

Biography

James McTeigue is an Australian film director. He has been an assistant director on many films, including No Escape (1994), the Matrix trilogy (1999–2003) and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), and made his directorial debut in the 2006 film V for Vendetta.

Born on Sydney's North Shore, he grew up in Collaroy Plateau, a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. McTeigue attended Marist Brothers North Sydney then Cromer High School, in Cromer, a northern beach suburb of Sydney. He completed tertiary study in film at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga Campus.

Timeline

2021Aged 54

  • Poster for The Matrix Resurrections

    Innocuous Man

2018Aged 51

  • Poster for Breaking In

    Director

2015Aged 48

  • Poster for Survivor

    Director

2014Aged 47

  • Poster for Caserta Palace Dream

    Writer

2012Aged 45

  • Poster for The Raven

    Director

2010Aged 43

  • Poster for Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

    Self (archive footage)

2009Aged 42

  • Poster for Ninja Assassin

    Director

2008Aged 41

2006Aged 39

  • Poster for V for Vendetta

    Director

  • Poster for 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked

    Director

2004Aged 37

  • Poster for The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase

    Self

2003Aged 36

2002Aged 35

  • Poster for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

    First Assistant Director

2001Aged 34

  • Poster for The Monkey's Mask

    Assistant Director

2000Aged 33

  • Poster for Looking for Alibrandi

    First Assistant Director

1999Aged 32

  • Poster for The Sugar Factory

    Second Assistant Director

  • Poster for The Matrix

    First Assistant Director

1998Aged 31

  • Poster for Dark City

    Assistant Director

1997Aged 30

  • Poster for Paradise Road

    Second Assistant Director

  • Poster for The Well

    Second Assistant Director

1996Aged 29

  • Poster for The Island of Dr. Moreau

    Production Assistant

  • Poster for To Have and to Hold

    Second Assistant Director

1994Aged 27

  • Poster for No Escape

    Second Second Assistant Director

1988Aged 21

  • Poster for Midnight Dancer

    Production Office Assistant

Year unknown