Christopher Edward Nolan was born on 30 July 1970 in the Westminster district of London.[3][4] His father, Brendan James Nolan (1936[5]–2009),[6] was a British advertising executive of Irish descent[7] who worked as a creative director. His mother, Christina Jensen (born 1942),[8] is an American former flight attendant from Evanston, Illinois; she also worked as a teacher of English. He has an older brother, Matthew, and a younger brother, Jonathan, also a filmmaker. The three brothers were raised Catholic in Highgate and spent their summers in Evanston.