Celine Song

Producer, Writer, Director

Birthdate: September 19, 1998 (27 Years Old)

Birthplace: South Korea

Celine Song is the filmmaker of her lauded semi-autobiographical debut feature, Past Lives (2023), co-starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival (where she won the Vanguard Award) and released by A24 to a robust gross of $42.7 million (on $12 million costs) as well as several major awards (Independent Spirit Best Director Award, Best First-Time Director from the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s New Generation Award) leading up to an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Song was director/writer/producer of the rom-com, Materialists (2025), co-starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, with Marin Ireland and Magaro, produced by Killer Films and 2 AM, and was released wide by A24 (U.S.)/Sony Pictures Releasing International (international).

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Celine Song was born and raised in South Korea by her mother (illustrator, graphic designer) and father, Song Neung-han (filmmaker), until she was 12 years old, when her family moved to Markham, in the Canadian province of Ontario. Song graduated from high school and then majored in psychology and minored in philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Song then earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from Columbia University in 2014. Song has been married to novelist/playwright/screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes since 2016.

Known For

Past Lives

(2023)

The Wheel of Time

(2021)

Working in the Theatre

Self (1976)

Celine Song Movies

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2025 |
Materialists
Materialists
2025
Comedy, Romance
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
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2023 |
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023
Drama, Romance
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
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Previous (1)

2023 |
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023
Drama, Romance
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
More Info Watch Now

Facts About Celine Song

Theater Life: Celine Song is also a playwright and stage director, writing the play Endings (2020), and directed a version of Chekhov’s The Seagull based on The Sims (2020), both produced by New York Theatre Workshop, as well as writing the play Tom and Eliza. What’s in a Name? Song has suggested that her Anglicized first name is a reference to one of the main characters in Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974).