![]() ![]() The film's supporting cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary as the boy's parents, as well as Rosie O'Donnell, Julia Stiles, and Camryn Manheim. The drama dealt with a ten-year-old Catholic schoolboy ( Joseph Cross) who, after the death of his grandfather ( Robert Loggia), searches for God. His parents were the film's associate producers. He wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake. Shyamalan made his first film, the semi-autobiographical drama Praying with Anger, while still a student at NYU, using money borrowed from family and friends. On each DVD release of his films, beginning with The Sixth Sense and with the exception of Lady in the Water, he has included a scene from one of these childhood movies, which, he feels, represents his first attempt at the same kind of film. By the time he was seventeen, he had made forty-five home movies. Though his father wanted him to follow in the family practice of medicine, his mother encouraged him to follow his passion. Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age. It was while studying there that he adopted "Night" as his second name. Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan, graduating in 1992. Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988, and was also a National Merit Scholar. When he was a student there, a teacher once became upset because he "got the best grade and wasn't Catholic". He felt like an outsider and remembers that teachers would say that whoever was not baptized would go to hell. He attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal Academy, a private Episcopal high school located at the time in Merion Station, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan's parents immigrated to the United States when he was six weeks old. Shyamalan, is a Malayali neurologist from Mahé and a JIPMER graduate, his mother, Dr. ![]() The son of Indian parents, his father, Dr. Shyamalan was born in Mahé, India, a town in the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
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