Date of Birth
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1952
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Place of Birth
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Omaha
(Douglas County, Nebraska, United States of America, Area codes 402 and 531, Area code 402, Area code 531)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Keith 'KK' Barrett, Keith Barrett, Keith "K. K." Barrett, K.K. Barrett
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Profession
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Production Designer, Film Art Director
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Keith "K. K." Barrett is a production designer known for his work on feature films by Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, and others. Together with set decorator Gene Serdena, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2013 film Her.
Barrett was born in Omaha, Nebraska and lived in Springfield, Missouri and Oklahoma City before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he spent his last two years of high school and graduated from Memorial High School in 1971. He studied painting at Oklahoma State University, graduating in 1976. He lived in New York and in Los Angeles, where he was a drummer for The Screamers, a synthpunk band. He appears in the 1986 punk rock musical Population: 1.
He moved into production design on music video, and worked on videos with Spike Jonze, leading to their first film collaboration on Being John Malkovich.
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