Kent Osborne Movies
An East Coast native, multihyphenate
Kent Osborne (the brother of director
Mark Osborne) graduated from Hunterdon Central High in Flemington, NJ.
Osborne gravitated to the west coast in subsequent years, then made an early on-camera appearance as an actor in the racially charged youth drama
School Ties (1992) (alongside
Matt Damon and
Ben Affleck). Almost a decade later,
Osborne reemerged on the scene, this time as both an actor (
Surviving Christmas,
Open House) and as one of Hollywood's more offbeat screenwriters; scripting credits included the 2004 animated outing The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie) and the slice-of-life, "mumblecore" comedy
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) (in which he also acted). In 2008,
Osborne reteamed with
Hannah stars
Greta Gerwig and
Joe Swanberg for a supporting role in the duo's co-directorial outing
Nights and Weekends. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
