Robert Eggers

Robert Eggers is the kind of filmmaker who makes you feel like you've been cursed after watching his movies — and I mean that as the highest compliment. This guy from a small New Hampshire town has built an entire career out of refusing to make anything set after 1900, and honestly? Good. The Witch had me genuinely unsettled in ways I couldn't shake for days, The Lighthouse was like watching two men slowly lose their minds in real time, and The Northman proved he could go full epic without losing that obsessive attention to historical texture. What gets me most is that he writes, designs, and directs the whole vision himself — the guy's a one-man authenticity machine. With Nosferatu in 2024, he finally brought his dream vampire project to life after years in development, and it was exactly as atmospheric and unnerving as you'd hope. There's no one else making films quite like his.

Name (English)

Robert Eggers

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・エガース

Reading

ろばーと・えがーす

Born

July 7, 1983 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

Origin

Lee, New Hampshire, United States

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / production designer / director

High school

Oyster River High School

Awards & achievements

• 2015 Sutherland Trophy

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://roberteggers.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9

Tags

• New Hampshire
• film director
• screenwriter
• production designer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.