American filmmaker, political activist, and writer, who has made the news as the daughter of Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York City. Caroline Giuliani has received national media attention for publicly disagreeing with and criticizing her Republican father’s politics and political endorsements. She endorsed former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris for the 2020 United States presidential election.
She was born to Donna Hanover, a journalist and television personality, and Rudy Giuliani, an attorney and Republican politician. She is of Italian descent on her father’s side. Her paternal great-grandparents, Rodolfo and Evangelina Giuliani, were from Tuscany. Her great-uncle, Tullio “Leo” D’Avanzo, operated a loan sharking and gambling ring at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Her older brother, Andrew Giuliani, served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison for former U.S. President Donald Trump.
In October 2000 her parents filed for divorce which was finalized in 2002. In 2003 her father married Judith Nathan, a nurse and medical sales executive, and her mother married Edwin Oster, an attorney. In 2018 her father joined President Donald Trump’s legal team. Giuliani has been estranged from her father since her parents’ divorce.
She attended Harvard University, where she studied theatre and film production. At Harvard, Giuliani served as the experimental theater coordinator of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club and interned with documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee. Giuliani also trained with the Atlantic Theater Company in New York, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and Collaborative Arts Project 21, a partnership with New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Giuliani is pansexual. Her work as a filmmaker, writer, and director focuses on mental health and human sexuality. She worked as the director’s assistant on Netflix’s 2019 romantic comedy Someone Great. In 2020 she created the psychological thriller film Or (Someone) Else about a woman struggling in an abusive relationship and the mental health ramifications of oppressed anger.
On 4 August 2010, she was arrested by New York City police and charged with petty larceny for shoplifting from the Sephora store on East 86th Street. She took a plea deal to perform one day of community service and had her criminal record cleared after a probation period of six months.
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