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   Full name — Christopher Jonathan James Nolan.

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   Color blind, cannot distinguish between green and red.

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   In the early 1990s he graduated from University College London with a degree in English literature.

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   Christopher Nolan is colorblind. He cannot distinguish between green and red.

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   Christopher Nolan has four children: Oliver, Magnus, Rory, and Flora.

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   Christopher Nolan is a proponent of film cameras and prefers to shoot a significant portion of his film projects with them, despite the noisiness and bulkiness of such setups.

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   Brother of Jonathan Nolan.

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   Full name — Christopher Edward Nolan.

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   Born into a family of an Englishman and an American. He has Irish, English, and French roots on his mother's side. Christopher's father worked on advertising projects, and his mother was a flight attendant.

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    At the age of seven, Chris watched George Lucas's "Star Wars," and immediately after that, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," which had been re-released in UK cinemas following the space-themed craze caused by Lucas's film. Watching these two films determined his future path. It was then that he began writing scripts for short science fiction films.

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    Christopher Nolan is left-handed.

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    In the early 1990s, Nolan took part in African charity projects by photojournalist Dan Eldon shortly before Eldon was killed in Somalia in 1993. Nolan worked as a cinematographer.

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    In the early '90s, Christopher graduated from University College London with a degree in English literature.

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    He was born into a family of an Englishman and an American woman. Christopher's father worked on advertising projects, and his mother was a flight attendant.

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    At the age of seven, Chris watched George Lucas's Star Wars, and immediately after that, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Watching these two films determined his future path. It was then that he began writing scripts for short science fiction films.

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    In the early '90s, Christopher completed his studies at University College London with a degree in English literature.