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| Marcos Siega | |
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|   Siega at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con  | |
| Born | June 8, 1969  New York City, New York, U.S. | 
| Occupation(s) | Director, producer, musician | 
| Children | 3 | 
Marcos Siega (born June 8, 1969, in New York City) is a film, television, commercial and music video director. He has also worked as a producer, a musician and an artist.
In the late 1980s, he helped to form the New York–based punk band Bad Trip, releasing two full-length records and numerous EPs. He later began directing music videos for Weezer, System of a Down, P.O.D., Papa Roach, Blink-182 and The All-American Rejects. His 2000 video for Blink-182's "All the Small Things" earned three MTV Video Music Award nominations and the Papa Roach video "Broken Home" was nominated for a Grammy. In 2001, he signed with commercial production company Hungry Man. [1]
Siega has directed episodes of television series, including Dexter , True Blood , Cold Case and Veronica Mars . In 2008, he directed the pilot and co-executive produced The Vampire Diaries , which ran for eight seasons on the CW Network. Siega also directed the pilots and was executive producer of The Following, Charlie's Angels , Time after Time , The Passage and God Friended Me .
Pretty Persuasion , his 2005 film, was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and won the German Independence Award at the Oldenburg International Film Festival.