Florian Marc Ballhaus (born 1965) is a German
cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...
. He is best known for his work on ''
The Devil Wears Prada'', ''
Marry Me'' and the movies directed by
Robert Schwentke, such as ''
Flightplan'', ''
The Time Traveler's Wife'' and ''
The Divergent Series: Insurgent''.
He is also son of the late cinematographer
Michael Ballhaus.
Life and career
Ballhaus was born in
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with Fra ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...
, the son of Helga Mavia Betten and noted German cinematographer
Michael Ballhaus.
At the age of 16, he moved to the U.S. with his family, when his father began working on American films such as ''
After Hours''. He began working as a second cinematographer's assistant and then later as a camera assistant and operator. He returned to Germany in his adulthood to make his own name in his father's profession, debuting in episodes of the television show, ''Alles außer Mord'', then in 1996 with ''Sandman''. He returned to the U.S. seven years later to shoot episodes of ''
Sex and the City
''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO. An adaptation of Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the same name, the series premiered in the United Stat ...
''.
In 2005, he earned praise for his work in the thriller ''
Flightplan''. Later he reunited with
David Frankel, one of the ''Sex and the City'' directors, for ''
The Devil Wears Prada''.
Filmography
Films
Television
TV series
TV movies
References
External links
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1965 births
German cinematographers
German expatriates in the United States
Living people
People from Baden-Baden
Film people from Baden-Württemberg
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