Andy Tennant
| Andy Tennant | |
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 Tennant at the 2011 Dallas International Film Festival | |
| Born |
June 15, 1955 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Children | 4 |
Andy Tennant (born June 15, 1955) is an American screenwriter, film and television director, and dancer.
Life and career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Tennant was raised in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father was Don Tennant, a legendary creative advertising talent with Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago. As a boy, he spent his summers on Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan and at Camp Minocqua in northern Wisconsin. He graduated from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 1973. He studied theater under John Houseman at University of Southern California.
Tennant's first acting role in a motion picture was in 1980 as a college student, Melio, on an all-night scavenger hunt in a surreal film, Midnight Madness which cameo'd cowboy-hatted Pee Wee Herman as a pin ball arcade manager; Andy's first big break in films came when he was cast as a dancer and chorus member in the movies Grease and Grease 2.
Tennant is married. He and his wife have four children, three of whom are triplets.
Filmography
- It Takes Two (also known as Me and My Shadow) (1995)
- Fools Rush In (1997)
- Ever After (1998)
- Anna and the King (1999)
- Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
- Hitch (2005)
- Fool's Gold (2008)
- The Bounty Hunter (2010)
- Wild Oats (2016)
Television
- Ferris Bueller (Unknown episodes, 1990)
- The Wonder Years (2 episodes, 1989–1991)
- Parker Lewis Can't Lose (5 episodes, 1990–1991)
- Keep the Change (1992)
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (Unknown episodes, 1992)
- Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992)
- The Amy Fisher Story (1993)
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (2 episodes, 1993)
- South of Sunset (Unknown episodes, 1993)
- Sliders (1 episode, 1995)
- The American Embassy (1 episode, 2002)
Writing credits
- Moving Target (Teleplay, 1988)
- Ferris Bueller (Unknown episodes, 1990)
- What She Doesn't Know (Teleplay, 1992)
- Ever After (Screenplay, 1998)
- The Wedding Album (Pilot, 2006)
- Fool's Gold (Screenplay, 2008)