Kevin Mukherji
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Kevin Mukherji has worked with such notable directors as Steven
Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Harold Ramis, John Sayles, John McNaughton, Pamela Adlon, Albert Brooks,
and Patty Jenkins. Kevin Mukherji was born in Calcutta, India but grew
up in the Chicagoland area. Mukherji was entertaining the neighborhood
kids with his hand drawn cartoon short movies by the age of seven, and
made over fifty short super 8 and video movies before the age of
fourteen. Mukherji made his first broadcast documentary about antique
cars at the age of sixteen called Car Fever. Mukherji graduated from
Von Steuben High School in three years and then received a master
degree in filmmaking from Northern Illinois University. He studied
acting at Second City and Victory Gardens in Chicago. Mukherji is
delighted to work alongside a variety of noted actors and directors in
his career. Among those actors were Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's The
Terminal, Ashley Judd and Luke Perry in John McNaughton's Normal Life,
Albert Brooks in Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World, C. Thomas
Howell in The Hillside Strangler, and Tommy Lee Jones in U.S. Marshals.
Mukherji directed the feature psychological drama Death And Taxis, and
the feature documentary American Storytellers with John McNaughton,
Harold Ramis, John Sayles and Forest Whitaker. His television credits
include Better Things, Southland, Parenthood, Shameless, Without A Trace and Arrested
Development among others. Kevin Mukherji is the founder of Magnum
Independent Pictures, a film production and distribution company.
Mukherji's latest directed feature documentary We Are One narrated by
Forest Whitaker and features Jimmy Carter and Monika Gandhi among
others. Mukherji is also has several features in different stages of
development and production.