Rob Cohen is one more of the people the industry actually runs on, an American director better known from credit lists than from press coverage. 'xXx' belongs on any short list of the work. 26 entries make up the record, most of them known only to people who read credits. The most visible credit is 'The Fast and the Furious'.
Rob Cohen
Director · Producer
77 years (Mar 12, 1949)Cornwall, USACornwall, New York, USA
Rob Cohen is one more of the people the industry actually runs on, an American director better known from credit lists than from press coverage. 'xXx' belongs on any short list of the work. 26 entries make up the record, most of them known only to people who read credits. The most visible credit is 'The Fast and the Furious'.
Rob Cohen (born March 12, 1949) is an American film director, writer and producer. He is best known for directing the first Fast and the Furious installment (2001), as well as the action films xXx (2002) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer (2008). He's a graduate in Anthropology and Visual Studies from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and while working as a reader for Universal in the early-1970s discovered the screenplay for what would become The Sting (1973).