Max Landis - Biography
Last Modified: Sep 18, 2020
| Profession: | Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Director |
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| Best Known For: | American Ultra, Victor Frankenstein (films) |
| Salary: | Under Review |
| Net Worth: | $6 million |
Personal Details
| Born on : | July 3, 1985 (age 35) |
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| Birth Name / Full Name: |
Max Landis |
| Birth Place: | Beverly Hills, California, USA |
| Horoscope: | Cancer |
| Father's Name: | John Landis |
| Mother's Name: | Deborah Nadoolman Landis |
| Siblings: |
1 Rachel Landis (older sister) |
| High School: | Beverly Hills High School |
| University: | University of Miami |
| Ethnicity: | Ashkenazi-Jewish |
| Nationality: | American |
Relationships
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
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| Marital Status: | In Relationship |
| Girlfriend Name: | Ani Easton Baker |
Body Measurements
| Height: | 1.93 meter (6 feet 4 inch) |
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| Weight: | N/A |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Eye Color: | Dark Brown |
| Shoe Size: | N/A |
| Bicep Size: | N/A |
| Chest Size: | N/A |
| Waist Size: | N/A |
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Who is Max Landis?
Max Landis is a screenwriter, filmmaker by profession and American by nationality. He is the son of director John Landis and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis and is known for writing Chronicle, American Ultra, Victor Frankenstein, Bright, among others.
Max Landis – Bio, Age, Parents, Siblings
Max Landis’ birth took place on August 3, 1985, in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He was born to father John Landis, a director and mother Deborah Nadoolman Landis, an author, professor, historian, costume designer.
He is not the only child of his parents and has a sibling- an older sister named Rachel Landis. His grandmother Shirley Levine Landis was an actress and grandfather Marshall Landis was an Interior designer.
Education, Ethnicity
For education, he attended Beverly Hills High School but left for a therapeutic boarding school in Connecticut. Landis later returned to Beverly Hills High School and graduated from the same. He later enrolled at the University of Miami.
His ethnicity is Ashkenazi-Jewish.
Max Landis – Girlfriend, Wife, Children, Divorce
Max Landis is currently dating actress Ani Easton Baker. Otherwise, he is unmarried, sans wife, children and as he has never married, divorce is out of context.
Max Landis, Ani Easton Baker (Instagram)
Before 2019 his love life was well hidden. But in June 2019 several women come out to accused him of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, most of whom were his ex-girlfriends and women he had hooked up with.
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Max Landis – Career
Early Career
Landis had brief appearances in his father's films The Stupids (1996), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Burke and Hare (2010). At the age of 16, he started writing and at the age of 18, he was able to sell his first script.
Films, shows
Over the years Max Landis has worked as a writer in Chronicle (2012), American Ultra (2015), Victor Frankenstein (2015), Mr. Right (2015), as a writer and producer in Mr. Right (2015), Bright (2017), and as a writer and director in Me Him Her (2015).
Of TV series, he has written Masters of Horror (2005), Fear Itself (2009), executively produced Channel Zero (2016-2017) and as a writer and Executive producer of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016-2017).
Moreover, Max Landis has directed the music video for Ariana Grande’s One Last Time and a few web series as well as short films.
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Worked with
Max Landis has worked with Josh Trank, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Jonah Hill, Mark Wahlberg.
Max Landis – Controversy, Sexual assault accusations
Landis had been criticized for several statements he has made about women. In a 2013 interview, Max Landis said, “the most f***** up thing was that I cheated on a girl who I also gave a crippling social anxiety, self-loathing, body dismorphia, eating disorder to." Later he claimed that he had been drunk during the interview.
In December 2017, former co-worker Anna Akana accused him of sexual assault and in June 2019 he was accused of emotional abuse, sexual misconduct by 8 women including his former girlfriend Whitney Moore.
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Max Landis – Net Worth, Salary
His net worth is estimated to be around $6 million while there has been no estimate on his annual salary.
Max Landis – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
On social media, Max Landis is active on Instagram with over 31.6k followers. But he is absent from Twitter and Facebook.
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