Eli Roth is an American producer, director, screenwriter, and actor, recognized as one of the finest horror directors of the early 21st century. He is best known for directing horror films such as Koller (2002), Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007). Eli also directed horror films The Green Inferno (2013), Knock Knock (2015) and Death Wish (2018). In 2018 he undertook a project to make his first PG-13 rated film entitled The House With A Clock In The Wallswith Jack Black, Cate Blanchett and Owen Vaccaro. After working primarily as a film producer between 1994 and 2015, Eli also began working as an executive producer on the TV series Hemlock Grove in 2013 and through 2015.

In 2015 he co-founded a digital company called Short Form Horror Krypta-TV . After that, Eli continued his career producing TV series like 1 Minute Horror (2015), Violet (2015), South of Hell (2015), Real Horrors (2015-2016), #15SecondScare (2015-2016), Afterlife ( 2017) and Eli Roth’s Horror Story (2018). As a film actor, he also starred in Fever (2002), 2001 Maniacs (2005), Proof of Death (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Don’t Look Up(2009), Rock of Ages (2012), Aftershocks (2012), The Man With an Iron Fist (2012) and Clown (2014). Eli has built a large following on social media consisting of 300,000+ followers on Twitter, 300,000+ followers on Instagram and 200,000+ followers on Facebook.

Born name

Eli Raphael Roth

nickname

Gorilka, David Kaufbird, Alois von Eichberg

Sun sign

Aries

Place of birth

Newton, Massachusetts, USA

Residence

Los Angeles, California, United States

nationality

training

Eli Roth attended Newton South High School in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.

Upon graduation, Eli enrolled at New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan, New York, New York, USA, graduating summa cum laude in 1994.

occupation

Producer, director, actor, screenwriter

family

• Father – Sheldon Roth (Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst, Clinical Professor)
• Mother – Cora Roth (painter)
• Siblings – Gabriel Roth (Younger Brother) (Producer, Writer, Director), Adam J. Roth (Older Brother) (Actor, Director)
• Others – Milton Morris David Roth (paternal grandfather), Anna Cohen (paternal grandmother), Philip Bialis/Biolis (maternal grandfather), Libby/Libbie Lang (maternal grandmother), Max Roth (paternal grandfather), Esther Stella Randel (paternal grandmother ), Jacob Cohen (paternal grandfather), Gussie Rosanoff (paternal grandfather), Gershon/Harry Bialis (maternal grandfather), Minnie/Mindel Bialis (maternal grandfather), Isaac/Isak Reuben/Rubin Lang (maternal grandfather), Chaya Hinde “Annie ” Gouldner/Goldner (maternal grandmother)

Manager

Eli Roth is represented by –

• William Morris Endeavour (WME) Entertainment (Talent Agent) in Beverly Hills, Kalifornien, USA
• Rowe PR (publicist) in Los Angeles, California, USA and New York City, New York, USA
• Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal Laviolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman (Legal Representative) in Beverly Hills, California, USA
• Dragonfly Entertainment (CEO, Producer) in Encino, California, USA
• Exquisite Corpse (CEO, Producer) in Encino, California, USA
• Raw Nerve (Company Producer) in the United States
• The Arts District (Company Producer) in the United States

To build

Athletic

Height

6ft or 183cm

weight

82 kg or 181 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Eli Roth dated –

1. Cerina Vincent (2002-2003) – He dated actress Cerina Vincent for a year after she starred in the popular film he was directing. Cabin Fever (2002).
2. Courtney Peldon (2004-2005) – Eli and actress Courtney Peldon began dating in 2004. They dated for almost a year before splitting in 2005.
3. Barbara Nedeljakova (2005-2009) – Eli was in a long-term relationship with the Slovak actress for 4 years from 2005 to 2009. A spark ignited between them after he directed her in his film Hostel (2005).
4. Peaches Geldof (2010) – In 2010, Eli was in a relationship with TV personality, Peaches Geldof. Even though they split up at the end of the year, they stayed on good terms. In May 2011, the two partied together in Los Angeles, California, although Peaches already had a new boyfriend. Sadly, she died in April 2014 from a heroin overdose that still pained Eli, even though they had long since broken up.
5. Lorenza Izzo (2011-2018) – Eli’s most famous relationship was with the Chilean actress and model, whom he began dating in 2011. They were three and a half years old and married on November 8, 2014 on a beach in a Chilean town, Zapallar. The strength of their marriage was shown in 2015 after Eli directed and wrote a film Knock Knock. In many scenes Lorenza and another actressAna de Armas had violent scenes with Keanu Reeves before Eli. He claimed he was comfortable and said they all did their jobs professionally. Unfortunately, Lorenza and Eli divorced on July 18, 2018, citing irreconcilable differences. When asked the exact reason, they both said they would have killed each other had they not gone their separate ways.

race/ethnicity

White

He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.

hair colour

dark brown

eye color

dark brown

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Large, athletic build
• Haircut combed back

brand promotion

Eli Roth endorsed his own brand Krypta-TV (2015).

Known for

• His producer credits for TV series Hemlock Grove (2013-2015), 1 Minute Horror (2015), South of Hell (2015), Real Horrors (2015-2016), #15SecondScare (2015-2016), Afterlife (2017) and Eli Roth’s Tale of Horror (2018) as well as the films cabin fever (2002), hostel (2005), grinding house (2007) and hostel: part II (2007)
• As a film director for The Green Inferno (2013), Knock Knock (2015), Death Wish (2018) and The House with a Clock in the Walls (2018)
• His roles in cabin fever (2002), 2001 Maniacs (2005), Proof of Death (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Rock of Ages (2012) and Clown (2014)

first movie

Eli Roth made his big screen debut as a college student in the 1996 romantic comedy The Mirror Has Two Faces .

A recognized actor, Eli Roth made his big screen debut as Shocked Onlooker in the comedy horror film. Terror tighter in 1999.

First TV show

Eli Roth made his first appearance as himself in an episode entitled 50 Worst Songs, Britney’s New Video and More of the comedy series Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins in 2004.

Personal trainer

Eli checked his physique for the big part of his life, and though paparazzi caught him carrying a dad at one point, he quickly got back into shape. He is a big fan of going to the gym but also running in nature along the riverbank. Eli was also voted “Most Fit Director” in the June/July issue of Men’s Fitness Magazine. There were also reports that he went on to gain 35 pounds of muscle/fat weight to play the role of Donny Donowitz in Inglourious Basterds (2009).

In 2017, he reported he was obsessed with Jaguar morning push-ups. As for nutrition, Eli always tries to get up at 7am. But every morning he sleeps longer if he wrote too late the day before. He drinks a cold-pressed grapefruit juice for breakfast and is a big proponent of drinking alkaline water and washing his face in the morning. Eli also drinks yam, oatmeal, brown rice, eggs, and often grinds his own coffee beans, which he didn’t start drinking until he was 33.

Eli Roth favorite things

• Horror Movies – The Uninvited (1944), Ugetsu (1953), House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Innocents (1961), Carnival of Souls (1962), Don’t Look Now (1973), The Exorcist (1973), The Legend of Hell House (1973), Burnt Sacrifice (1976), The Mist (1980), Bugjuice (1988), The Terrifying Ones (1996), The Others (2001), Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Dark Waters (2002) , It follows (2014)
• Actresses – Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen
• Actor – Peter Sellers
• Music genre – classic rock
• Bands – Guns N’Roses, AC / DC, Iron Maiden, Die Beatles, Die Rolling Stones, Die Boomtown-Ratten
• Singer – David Bowie, Devo
• Scientist – Nikola Tesla
• Animals – dog, horse, shark, lion, jaguar, tiger, donkey, camel, cobra
• Activities – diving with the sharks, skiing
• Drink – coffee

Eli Roth The fact

1. He made his first film in 1979 after seeing Ridley Scott’s masterpiece. foreigners . Before graduating from college, he made over 100 short films with his friends using ketchup for blood and his father’s power tools.
2. While attending New York University, he and his friends worked as Cybers*x telephone operators, pretending to be female to fund their films.
3. Eli was an assistant on The Privates , a film based on Howard Stern’s autobiography. At night he wrote scripts for films in the studio while Howard slept.
4. His college work film, Restaurant Dogs, a tribute to Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs, earned him a 1995 Student Academy Award.
5. He came up with the idea for his big break film Lagerkoller (2002) after riding a pony in Iceland and contracting a dangerous flesh-eating disease.
6. The character of a p*rn director Eli in the film The Girl Next Door (2004) was based solely on him.
7. A director named Chloe Nichole, after being on the set of Cabal (2002) directed a P*rn parody film S*x Fever (2003). Eli was flattered but disappointed that she didn’t invite him to visit her set.
8. Eli shared almost all of the profits from the film Cabal (2002) with his cast and crew. With a budget of just $1.5 million, the film earned $8.6 million in its first week and more than $21 million in the US alone.
9. He has a tendency to make voice impressions of people he works with. Eli uses this ability to keep his crew busy and entertained during long hours of shooting.
10. Eli suffers from psoriasis, a genetic non-contagious skin disease.
11. He was fired from a director while working on Meet Joe Black (1998). Eli still worked as a production assistant, but had to hide in the basement and even turn off the air conditioner to avoid detection.
12. In 2007, Eli was interviewed by Italian Vogue magazine and spoke about his love for fashion. He also joked that he made films to fulfill his dream of being a supermodel on the red carpet.
13. Despite being a well-known horror director and producer, he cannot bear to see real blood as it makes him sick. Fake blood doesn’t affect him in the slightest.
14. Eli has a life-threatening allergy to cats and can’t even be in the same house as her.
15. He is also allergic to cigarettes and has asthma. Because of this, smoking is banned on his sets and he has to watch from a separate room if smoking is required in the scenes.
16. In low light, Eli claims to be red/black as well as blue/black color blind.
17. Eli handwrites all of his scripts, which he learned from Quentin Tarantino. In case he loses the notebooks, his handwriting is intentionally unreadable.
18. A haunted house titled Eli Roth’s Goretorium opened in September 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The company that owned the house closed in October 2013.
19. He filmed a horror in The Green Inferno (2013) in an Amazonian village, accessible only by a motorboat, and with no running water or electricity. The locals didn’t know what a movie was and Eli had to bring a TV to show them. After getting permission, the whole village signed up to play cannibals.
20. In April 2013, Eli directed the music video for Snoop Dogg’s lead single entitled Snoop Lion La La La .
21. Eli rewrote the screenplay for Death Wish (2018) in just 3 weeks. Bruce Willis played the main character of Paul Kersey in the film.
22. He worked on the production of the film Baywatch (2017) with Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra and Alexandra Daddario. Eli was replaced before the film came out but was still credited as a co-producer for his efforts.
23. In May 2019, he created Eli Roth’s Horror Story: Uncircumcised , a podcast in which he interviewed well-known horror directors and producers in the industry.
24. Visit his official website @ crypttv.com.
25. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.