Paul Feig
Birthdate: September 17, 1962 (63 Years Old)
Birthplace: Mount Clemens, Michigan, USA
Paul Feig has been closely associated with comedy maestro Judd Apatow, starting with the cult TV comedy series, Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000), and launched his feature filmmaking career as director/writer of the historical drama, I Am David (2003), starring Joan Plowright, Ben Tibber, and Jim Caviezel, and premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. Feig directed the Christmas comedy, Unaccompanied Minors (2006), based on Susan Burton’s radio story produced by NPR’s This American Life, co-starring Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, and released to poor returns by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Feig enjoyed one of his biggest successes as a director with the hit comedy produced by Judd Apatow, Bridesmaids (2011), starring and co-written by Kristen Wiig, co-written by Annie Mumulo, co-starring Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, and Chris O’Dowd, and delivering a huge $306.4 million gross for Universal Pictures. Feig continued in the lucrative Melissa McCarthy business as director of the buddy cop comedy hit, The Heat (2013), co-starring Sandra Bullock and McCarthy, with Demian Bichir, Marlon Wayans, Michael Rapaport, and Jane Curtin, and which delivered a huge $230 million gross for distributor 20th Century Fox.
Paul Feig was director/writer/producer of the next Melissa McCarthy comedy hit, Spy (2015), co-starring Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Miranda Hart, Bobby Cannavale, Morena Baccar, and Allison Janney, and delivering a similar box office result to the previous Feig-McCarthy collaboration with a $235 million gross. Feig (as director/co-writer/executive producer) and star McCarthy didn’t have the same success with their next project, the rebooted, all-female cast Ghostbusters (2016), co-starring Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Charles Dance, Michael K. Williams and Chris Hemsworth, co-produced by Columbia Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures/Ghost Corps and grossing a disappointing (based on estimated costs) box office of $229 million for Sony Pictures Releasing.
Feig was director/producer of his first foray into black comedy, A Simple Favor (2018), based on Darcey Bell’s 2017 novel and co-starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, with Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Linda Cardellini, Jean Smart and Rupert Friend, resulting in a robust box office return for Lionsgate of nearly $98 million globally; Feig continued as director/producer of the sequel, Another Simple Favor (2025), again co-starring Kendrick and Lively and streamed by Amazon Prime Video. F, as director/producer, continued to be a reliably commercial filmmaker with the rom-com, Last Christmas (2019), inspired by the song of the same title by the music group Wham! For co-screenwriters Emma Thompson (who also co-starred and produced with Feig, David Livingstone, and Jessie Henderson) and Bryony Kimming, and story writers Thompson and Greg Wise, which starred Emilia Clarke, Henry Goldi, and Michelle Yeoh, and grossed five times the estimated costs with a $123.4 million gross.
Paul Feig was director/co-writer/producer of his first fantasy movie, The School for Good and Evil (2022), based on Soman Chainani’s 2013 novel, co-starring Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie, and originally set with Universal Pictures but eventually made and streamed by Netflix, and then Feig was director/producer of another streamed movie, Jackpot (2024), with Awkwafina, John Cena, Ayden Mayeri, Sam Asghari and Simu Liu, and which was streamed by Amazon Prime Video. Feig, as director/producer finally returned to theatrical cinemas after a six-year absence with the thriller, The Housemaid (2025), adapted by screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine from Freida McFadden’s 2022 novel and co-starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, with Brandon Sklenar, Michele Morrone, and Elizabeth Perkins, produced by Feig’s Feigco Entertainment and Hidden Pictures and released wide by Lionsgate.
Feig was the producer only of The Peanuts Movie (2015), Snatched (2017), Someone Great (2019), and the executive producer only of Holler (2020). Feig also has a multi-decade run as an actor in small supporting roles, including in Zombie High (1987), Three O’Clock High (1987), Ski Patrol (1990), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), The TV Wheel (1995), Heavyweights (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), My Fellow Americans (1996), Stealing Harvard (2002), I Am David (2003), Knocked Up (2007), Bad Teacher (2011), Ferdinand (2017) and Song of Back and Neck (2018), as well as several uncredited roles in movies he directed.
Personal life
Paul Feig was born and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan, by parents Elaine and Sanford Feig. Feig attended and graduated from Chippewa Valley High School in Clinton Township, Michigan. Feig has been married to Laurie Karon since 1994. Feig’s height is 6’. Feig’s estimated net worth is $30 million.
Paul Feig Movies
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- 2019 |
Last Christmas
Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Working as an elf in a year-round Christmas store is not good for the wannabe singer. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn--that seems too good to be true.
- 2018 |
A Simple Favor
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
- 2016 |
Ghostbusters
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
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- 2024 |
The World According to Allee Willis
The World According to Allee Willis
Songwriter/artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling to fit established gender and sexual norms - until she found a path to love.
Facts About Paul Feig
Winner, Winner: Paul Feig won $29,000 as a contestant on The $25,000 Pyramid in 1982, which he used to finance his stand-up career.
Gin Mommy: Feig is a co-owner of the gin company, Artingstall’s, which is his mother’s middle name.
Christian Scientist: Paul Feig was raised in the Christian Science faith, which his Jewish-born father converted to when he met his future wife.
