M. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and author best known for psychologically driven supernatural thrillers and unexpected plot twists. Born in Puducherry, India, in 1970 and raised near Philadelphia, he developed an early fascination with filmmaking and later studied film at New York University. Shyamalan achieved international fame with The Sixth Sense (1999), followed by films including Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Split, and Glass. In addition to his film career, he collaborated with bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks on Remain, a supernatural love story developed alongside Shyamalan’s film project of the same story.