Personal Life
Cronenberg lives in Toronto. His seven-year marriage to Margaret Hindson ended in 1979. They had one child, a daughter, Cassandra Cronenberg. He married Carolyn Zeifman, production assistant on Rabid. They have two children, Caitlin and Brandon. In the 1992 book Cronenberg on Cronenberg, he revealed that The Brood was inspired by events that occurred during the unraveling of his first marriage, which caused both Cronenberg and his daughter Cassandra a great deal of turmoil. The character Nola Carveth, mother of the brood, is based on Cassandra's mother. Cronenberg said that he found the shooting of the climactic scene, in which Nola was strangled by her husband, to be "very satisfying".
Cronenberg refers to himself a "nonbeliever" who sees death as the "end of all consciousness." He was born to a Jewish family.
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