Peyton Reed is an American television and film director.

Reed was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

. Reed directed the motion pictures Bring It On

Bring It On (film)

Bring It On is a 2000 teen comedy film about two competing high school cheerleading squads, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union...

, Down with Love

Down with Love

Down with Love is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake. It stars Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, and is a pastiche of the romantic comedies of the early 1960s starring Doris Day, Rock Hudson and Tony Randall such as Pillow Talk and Lover...

, and The Break-Up

The Break-Up

The Break-Up is a 2006 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Peyton Reed, starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. It was written by Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick and produced by Universal Pictures.-Plot:...

; all comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 films. He has also acted in small roles in some films including his own and has written a few original songs for his soundtracks. He has also produced a few music videos.

Most recently Reed directed Yes Man

Yes Man (film)

Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins, Rhys Darby, Maile Flanagan, Danny Masterson, and Terence Stamp...

, starring Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario...

. Yes Man is an adaptation of Danny Wallace's autobiography about his decision to say "yes" to whatever offer, invitation, challenge, and opportunity that are presented to him.

Reed is divorced and lives in the Los Angeles area.

Filmography

Feature Films

• Bring It On
  Bring It On (film)
  Bring It On is a 2000 teen comedy film about two competing high school cheerleading squads, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union...
  
  (2000)
• Down with Love
  Down with Love
  Down with Love is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake. It stars Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, and is a pastiche of the romantic comedies of the early 1960s starring Doris Day, Rock Hudson and Tony Randall such as Pillow Talk and Lover...
  
  (2003)
• The Break-Up
  The Break-Up
  The Break-Up is a 2006 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Peyton Reed, starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. It was written by Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick and produced by Universal Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  (2006)
• Yes Man
  Yes Man (film)
  Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film directed by Peyton Reed, written by Nicholas Stoller, Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel and starring Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins, Rhys Darby, Maile Flanagan, Danny Masterson, and Terence Stamp...
  
  (2008)

Television

• Back to the Future: The Animated Series
  Back to the Future: The Animated Series
  Back to the Future: The Animated Series is an animated series for television based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films. The series lasted two seasons, each featuring 13 episodes, and ran on CBS from September 7, 1991 to November 28, 1992. It reran until August 14, 1993...
  
  (1991)
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
  The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (TV)
  The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a 1995 TV remake of the 1969 film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. It starred Kirk Cameron....
  
  (1995 remake)
• The Love Bug
  The Love Bug (1997 film)
  The Love Bug is made-for-television film starring Bruce Campbell and a sequel to the original The Love Bug film. The sequel included a Dean Jones cameo, tying it to the previous films...
  
  (1997 remake)
• The Weird Al Show
  The Weird Al Show
  The Weird Al Show is a television show hosted by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Produced in association with Dick Clark Productions, it aired Saturday mornings on the CBS TV network from September to December 1997. The show was released on DVD on August 15, 2006...
  
  (1997)
• Mr. Show
  Mr. Show
  Mr. Show with Bob and David is an American sketch comedy series featuring former Saturday Night Live writer/actor Bob Odenkirk and stand up comedian/actor David Cross...
  
  (5 episodes of Season 4, 1998)
• Upright Citizens Brigade (2000)
• Cashmere Mafia
  Cashmere Mafia
  Cashmere Mafia is an American television dramedy which ran on ABC from January 6, 2008 to February 20, 2008. The series was created by Kevin Wade, who also served as executive producer alongside Darren Star, Gail Katz, Jeff Rake and Michael Pressman, with Susie Fitzgerald co-executive producing....
  
  (2008; pilot
  Television pilot
  A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
  
  )

Documentaries / Short Films

• Back to the Future: The Ride
  Back to the Future: The Ride
  Back to the Future: The Ride is a simulator ride based on and inspired by the Back to the Future trilogy and is a mini-sequel to 1990's Back to the Future Part III. In the United States, it was replaced by The Simpsons Ride...
  
  (Screenwriter) (1991)
• The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy (1990)
• Through The Eyes Of Forrest Gump (Making Of) (1994)

Commercials

• "Pretty Khaki" (for GAP, 2/28/2005)

External links

• Photograph (at The Break-Up premiere)
• Digitally Obsessed Interview
• MoviePoopShoot.com Interview (for Down With Love)
• DVDFile.com Interview (for Bring It On)
• BTTF.com Interview (for the Back to the Future documentary)