The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for 2018 starts tomorrow form September 6 and runs for ten days in Toronto, Canada. The TIFF is one of the most important cinematic event for filmmakers to demonstrate their talents and launch their careers.
In the TIFF this year would be premiering the movie ‘What They Had’, written and directed by Elizabeth Chomko. The movie ‘What They Had’ is the debut feature of Elizabeth Chomko as a writer and a director.
It is one of the most anticipated movies in the TIFF and has already aroused the interests of the audience.
The movie ‘What They Had’ has a moving and touching story about family and relationship.
Prior to directing movies, Elizabeth Chomko worked as an actress. Elizabeth Chomko is a dynamic personality in the movie industry and there are lots of interesting facts about her.
So let’s dig in to know more about the phenomenal director and actress Elizabeth Chomko age, bio and wiki facts. We will discuss Elizabeth Chomko career, parents and net worth.
Who is ‘What They Had’ Elizabeth Chomko?
Elizabeth Chomko lived her earlier life and childhood which inspires and reflects the life of an ingenious talent. A simple life, an ambitious dream, and a creative mind! As a child Elizabeth and her sisters didn’t have a TV at their home. So she spent most of her time reading books, lost in her own thoughts, exploring her imagination.
As creative as she was, she also took dance classes and musical theater during her school age. She also enormously enjoyed to paint, draw and play a piano. She was so inspired by art that she took storytelling as her calling and pursued it as her career.
When she moved to Los Angeles, California, she couldn’t afford to write plays and feed herself. So she took on acting to feed her desire to write plays. As an actress, she has guest appeared in many TV series like ‘The Mentalist’, ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’, ‘Terriers’, ‘Twentysixmiles’ and so on.
While she was acting, she was also refining her writing skills by writing plays, short stories, and essays. She eventually wrote a screenplay titled ‘What They Had’ in 2015. The screenplay later was turned into a movie which will be premiered at the TIFF which starts September 6 and runs till September 16.
Elizabeth Chomko Married and Family
Elizabeth Chomko is a feminist and has pursued her education in gender studies. She grew up with her parents and two sisters in Wisconsin where there were more women than man. Elizabeth Chomko family and the Wisconsin community were a big influence on her creativity.
Elizabeth Chomko father was usually busy working and hence she grew up with her mother Kate Chomko and two sisters Maggie and Kalyn Chomko.
Elizabeth Chomko grandmother was a great inspiration to her. She was very close to her maternal grandmother and took her grandmother life as her source of inspiration. Elizabeth Chomko grandmother worked as an administrator in a nursing home which cares for Alzheimer’s patients until she was herself diagnosed with the condition.
Elizabeth Chomko married her husband Jay Montepare in August of 2011. Now, she lives with her husband in Los Angeles along with their pet dogs.
Elizabeth Chomko husband Jay Montepare is a carpenter and a home decor designer. Besides home decore, Jay Montepare also has a talent in stand-up comedy, acting, hosting.
She has recently celebrated her seventh marriage anniversary with her husband on the 13th of last August.
Elizabeth Chomko Net Worth
Elizabeth Chomko started her career as an actress. However, she is best known for her work as a director and a writer. Hence Elizabeth Chomko net worth accumulates form her job in the movie industry as an actor, director, and writer.
However, the sources citing Elizabeth Chomko net worth are unreliable. Some old sources estimate Elizabeth Chomko net worth at $1.5 million. However, as of 2018, Elizabeth Chomko net worth is under review and will be updated soon.
Elizabeth Chomko Wiki-Bio
Elizabeth Chomko age is currently unknown. However, her age is grouped at a range of 30 to 40 years. She celebrates her birthday on 21 January. She was born in Chicago, Illinois but had to move with her family to Minnesota before finally settling down in Hinsdale, Chicago.
Elizabeth Chomko primary education started at her high school at Los Altos High. While studying at high school, she also took up musical theaters and choirs. After graduating high school, for further education, Elizabeth Chomko joined American University for a degree in theater and philosophy. She has also specialized her education in gender studies.
Elizabeth Chomko had the desire to pursue the highest education and obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy.
However, keeping her focus on her creative side, she left her education and worked on the play. Next two years she had to work as a waitress to support herself while she was acting.
