<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1996--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Lorenza Izzo (2014--present) </Td> </Tr> <P> Eli Raphael Roth (born April 18, 1972) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor . As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, first coming to prominence by directing the 2005 film Hostel and its 2007 sequel, Hostel: Part II . As an actor, his most prominent role was as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Award (Best Ensemble) and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award (Best Acting Ensemble). Journalists have included him in a group of filmmakers dubbed the Splat Pack for their explicitly violent and bloody horror films . In 2013, Roth received the Visionary Award for his contributions to horror, at the Stanley Film Festival . His most recent directorial effort was the 2015 erotic horror film Knock Knock . His next project is the vigilante action film Death Wish, a remake of the 1974 original . </P> <P> Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Dr. Sheldon Roth, a psychiatrist / psychoanalyst and clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and Cora Roth, a painter . Roth was raised Jewish (his family is from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland). Besides English, he speaks French, Italian and Russian . </P>

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