Jaume Collet-Serra

Producer, Director

Birthdate: March 23, 1974 (52 Years Old)

Birthplace: Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Catalonia, Spain

Jaume Collet-Serra is a reliable Hollywood-based director of genre material, from horror to thrillers. He quickly established his skills as director of the Village Roadshow/Warner Bros. production, House of Wax (2005), with Elisha Cuthbert and Paris Hilton, produced by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. Collet-Serra’s next directorial project was the U.K.-Spain-Germany co-production, the soccer drama Goal II: Living the Dream (2007), a sequel to 2005’s hit film, Goal!, starring Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, and Rutger Hauer.

Rejoining producer Silver, as well as producer Leonardo DiCaprio, Collet-Serra directed the psychological horror movie, Orphan (2009), with Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, CCH Pounder, and Margo Martindale. Collet-Serra continued with producer Silver and collaborated for the first time with star Liam Neeson in the action-thriller Unknown (2011), with Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, and Frank Langella, earning $136 million globally. By the time of his fourth film with Silver, Non-Stop (2014), Collet-Serra had virtually become a team between him, the producer, and star Neeson, who co-starred here with Julianne Moore. Once again, Collet-Serra directed Neeson in an action thriller distributed by Warner Bros., in this case, Run All Night (2015), with Joel Kinnaman, Common, Ed Harris, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Nick Nolte.

In a departure from his usual collaborators, Jaume Collet-Serra directed star Blake Lively in the oceanic thriller, The Shallows (2016), released by Columbia Pictures, and with Brett Cullen, earning over $119 million worldwide. Collet-Serra reunited with Liam Neeson for the subway thriller, The Commuter (2018), with Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, and Sam Neill; the movie’s global earnings remarkably matched those of The Shallows: an estimated $119 million. In his first huge-budget spectacle for Disney, Jaume Collet-Serra directed Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramirez, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti in Jungle Cruise, whose estimated $200 million budget barely matched its $221 million global gross.

In his biggest project to date, Collet-Serra was director of one of the most highly anticipated movies in the DC Extended Universe, Black Adam (2022), starring Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Sarah Shahi, and Pierce Brosnan, and released by Warner Bros.

Collet-Serra was director and an executive producer on his first foray into horror with The Woman in the Yard (2025), starring Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Russell Hornsby, produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions and Stephanie Allain, and released by Universal Pictures.

Collet-Serra returned to thriller mode as director of Cliffhanger (2026), the redeveloped sequel to the 1993 Sylvester Stallone movie of the same title, co-starring Lily James, Nell Tiger Free, Franz Rogowski and Pierce Brosnan, produced (in part) by Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film, and which was released wide by Row K Entertainment.

Jaume Collet-Serra directed the psychological thriller, Play Dead (date to be announced), co-starring Noah Jupe, Matthias Schweighofer, Patrick Gibson and Andreas Pietschmann, produced (in part) by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and J.D. Lifshitz, and released by Netflix, and then Collet-Serra continued as director of a psychological thriller distributed by Netflix, An Innocent Girl (date to be announced), starring Chloe East, Kerry Washington, James Marsden, Colman Domingo, Kim Dickens and Rob Corddry, and produced by Berlanti Productions.

Jaume Collet-Serra has also served as a producer and executive on several films, including the psychological thriller, Mindscape (2013), starring Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Noah Taylor, and Brian Cox; the Universal Pictures horror-thriller, Curve (2015); writer-director Miguel Angel Vivas’ horror film, Extinction (2015); and the English-language Swedish thriller, Horizon Line (2020).

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Personal life

Born and raised in the inland Catalan town of Sant Iscle de Vallalta, Jaume Collet-Serra graduated from high school intending to study filmmaking. He moved to Los Angeles and graduated from Columbia College in Hollywood. Collet-Serra is married to Diba Adami. His net worth is an estimated $1.9 million.

Known For

Unknown

(2011)

The Shallows

(2016)

Orphan

(2009)

House of Wax

(2005)

Jaume Collet-Serra Movies

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2025 |
The Woman in the Yard
The Woman in the Yard
2025
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A mysterious woman repeatedly appears in a family's front yard, often delivering chilling warnings and unsettling messages, leaving them to question her identity, motives and the potential danger she might pose.
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2022 |
Black Adam
Black Adam
2022
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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2021 |
Jungle Cruise
Jungle Cruise
2021
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element.
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2018 |
The Commuter
The Commuter
2018
Action, Mystery, Thriller
An insurance salesman/ex-cop is caught up in a life-threatening conspiracy during his daily commute home.
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2016 |
The Shallows
The Shallows
2016
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.
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2015 |
Run All Night
Run All Night
2015
Action, Crime, Thriller
Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.
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2014 |
Non-Stop
Non-Stop
2014
Action, Mystery, Thriller
An air marshal springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages demanding $150 million into an off-shore account, or someone will die every 20 minutes.
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2009 |
Orphan
Orphan
2009
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.
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Cliffhanger

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2023 |
Retribution
Retribution
2023
Action, Thriller
A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out.
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2019 |
Anna
Anna
2019
Action, Thriller
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
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Facts About Jaume Collet-Serra

Collet-Serra on Collet-Serra: Jaume Collet-Serra has noted about himself that “I usually choose movies because I’m scared of them. I’m always wondering how not to repeat myself.”

AKA: Collet-Serra leaves his last name off his music video credits, crediting himself only as “Jaume.”

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