Cameron Crowe

The incredible, multi-talented creative Cameron Crowe is a writer, director, actor, lyricist, and journalist. He is best known for the movies Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Singles, Jerry Maguire, and Vanilla Sky. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2001 for Almost Famous. He was also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still writes.

Born and raised in California, Crowe began writing for his school’s newspaper and by the time he was 13 was contributing music reviews to the underground publication The San Diego Door. He later wrote for the rock magazine Creem, as well as for Circus, and after leaving High School at the age of 15 he was hired to write for Rolling Stone magazine, becoming their youngest ever contributor. He later joined the staff as a contributing editor and became an associate editor, interviewing such greats as Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Steely Dan, and Led Zeppelin.

In his early twenties Crowe had turned his attention to writing a book, and secured a contract which saw him pose as a High School student and write about his experiences. Before the book came out in 1981 it was optioned as a movie, and the result, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, was released in 1982. It became a sleeper hit and launched the careers of then unknowns Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, and Forest Whitaker. Since then Crowe has gone on to write and direct a number of modern-day classics, such as his debut Say Anything…, the Oscar winners Jerry Maguire, and Almost Famous, as well as Vanilla Sky, and Elizabethtown.

Crowe regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Twitter, posting pictures and comments about his life in and around the film industry.