ABOUT TIM BURTON
Director, producer, animator, and artist known for his highly stylized gothic-fantasy films. His best-known features include Batman , Batman Returns , Ed Wood , Beetlejuice , Edward Scissorhands , Big Fish , and The Nightmare Before Christmas .
He would make silent stop motion films in his backyard on 8mm film as a kid. He made the short animated film The Island of Doctor Agor when he was 13.
He wrote and illustrated a poetry book entitled The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories in 1997.
He married German artist Lena Gieseke on February 22, 1989, but left her for model and actress Lisa Marie , whom he met while filming Ed Wood and Mars Attacks! He had two children named Billy and Nell with English actress Helena Bonham Carter , whom he was in a relationship with from 2001 to 2014.
He and Johnny Depp worked together on many movies across several decades, including Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street .
