- Source of Wealth: Film
- Age: 53
- Birth Place: Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
- Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Weight: 152 lbs (69 kg)
- Marital Status: Married (Deborah Snyder)
- Full Name: Zachary Edward Snyder
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: March 1, 1966
- Ethnicity: English and German
- Occupation: Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Actor
- Education: Art Center College of Design
- Children: 7 (Eli and Autumn)
Zack Snyder is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer with an estimated net worth of $28 million.
Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but his parents raised him in Riverside, Connecticut. Marsha, his mother, was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School where he also took his early education. A year after high school, he also started to undergo filmmaking. After this, Snyder attended Pasadena California’s Art Center College of Design.
Snyder went on shooting as a cinematographer and director for commercials. Eventually, he worked for clients like Gatorade, Reebok, Nike, Nissan, Subaru, BMW, and Audi.
He is the co-founder of Cruel and Unusual Films, a production company he established in 2004, alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller. He has also been hired by Warner Bros. to direct a reboot of the Superman film series currently titled Man of Steel.
He started in film with a remake of the horror picture Dawn of the Dead in 2004. The fantasy war film 300 allowed him to score a box office hit. He had a movie with Warner Bros. called the Watchmen. His next project was Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole which came out on September 24, 2010. Snyder also directed, produced, and co-wrote Sucker Punch which was released on March 25, 2011. The film’s basis is on a script that Steve Shibuya and Snyder wrote. It was about a young woman in a mental hospital who fantasized an escape with her fellow inmates.
Snyder resides in Pasadena with his second wife, Deborah Snyder. Snyder now has seven kids. Four of them came from Denise Weber, and the two were from Kristen Elin.