How old is Tim Burton?

A talented American filmmaker, producer, screenplay writer, animator, and artist, Tim Burton is famous for his unique adventure, superhero, horror, and fantasy movies. Timothy Walter Burton was born in 1958 in California, and since the early childhood he loved painting, drawing, and watching movies. His career began in the early 1980s after he studied character animation in one of the universities of California. A short movie Vincent was his first one to reach the big screens. Overall, Burton became truly known after directing Beetlejuice (with Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, and Alec Baldwin), followed by other horror masterpieces like Edward Scissorhands (with Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder), Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Batman Forever, Mars Attacks (with Jack Nicholson), Superman Lives!. The 2000s were marked by creating new movies like Planet of Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with Johnny Depp), Bride Corpse, Sweeny Todd, 9, etc. In the early 2010s, he successfully collaborated with Depp again, in the movies Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through Glass. Other later movies made or produced by Burton include Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Dark Shadows, Big Eyes, and others. Tim Burton was married to a model Lisa Marie Smith, and then to an actress Helena Bonham Carter, who is the mother of his two children.

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