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One of her professors at NYU's Tisch School of The Arts was Spike Lee.

She is the first Asian woman to be nominated for and win the Academy Award for Best Director, as well as the first woman of color ever nominated and win in that category.

Father is the manager of a Beijing steel company. Her mother is a hospital worker who once was in a performance troupe for the People's Liberation Army.

Talked Sarah Michelle Gellar back into the role of Buffy l'ammazzavampiri (1997). Chloé Zhao is reportedly a big fan of the series, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale will be her television debut.

Directed 1 actress to an Oscar win: Frances McDormand, who won for Nomadland (2020).

Her father was a successful executive at Shougang Group, one of the country's largest state-owned steel companies. After amassing significant personal wealth, he moved on to real-estate development and equity investment. Her family's wealth allowed her to attend the Sussex boarding school Brighton College from 1998 to 2000. After that, she completed high school in Los Angeles and then enrolled in Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She attended the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Graduate Film Program, at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out.