Tarsem Singh belongs to a Sikh family from Jalandhar, though he left India at the age of 24, to pursue film studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Soon after he began directing music, most notably; R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion’. His first movie was 2000’s ‘The Cell’ starring Jennifer Lopez. He self-financed ‘The Fall’ (2006) and followed that up with ‘Immortals’ in 2011, and then ‘Mirror Mirror’ in 2012 with his last film being ‘Self/less’ in 2015.