Zachary Coffin is an actor and writer, known for Housefull 3 (2016), Fan (2016) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015). In the corporate world, he was Global XBRL Leader at consulting firm KPMG and a Founding Member of the XBRL International Steering Committee -- a technology standard which Accounting Today called "perhaps the most revolutionary change in financial reporting since the ...Zachary Coffin is an actor and writer, known for Housefull 3 (2016), Fan (2016) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015). In the corporate world, he was Global XBRL Leader at consulting firm KPMG and a Founding Member of the XBRL International Steering Committee -- a technology standard which Accounting Today called "perhaps the most revolutionary change in financial reporting since the first general ledger.". Was heavily involved in the formation of digital media standards, including XBRL, NewsML, PRISM and MPEG, and was the initial U.S. Chair of MPEG-21. At one time served on the Board of the School of General Studies Alumni Association at Columbia University and was Chair of the International Advisory Committee for Virtual Communications at the School of Creative Media at RMIT University (Melbourne). Has spoken about globalization, transparency and media at over 100 conferences around the world and at universities such as MIT Media Lab, ICFAI Bangalore, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Rutgers University, UC Irvine, University College Dublin, University of Kansas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and USC. Dual-citizen of USA and Canada. Was an Officer of USC's legendary special effects club "SCFX," and organized one of the club's biggest receptions ever, for Linwood G. Dunn, who spoke about making the original King Kong (1933). While a college student at Columbia, he also secretly audited NYU's master class in directing taught by Susan Seidelman. Studied at the Stella Adler acting academy in New York before going to USC film school. Had rare experience of studying film at three different schools - first learning screenwriting at Columbia University; then film production in the Sight & Sound Summer program at NYU; and then directing at USC's School of Cinema-Television, where he received his M.F.A. As a student at USC, re-enrolled in the Intermediate Directing class so he could go over the same material with the three different instructors directors Edward Dmytryk (The Young Lions (1958)), Elliot Silverstein (A Man Called Horse (1970)), and Jeremy Kagan (The Chosen (1981)). At USC, he was a Teaching Assistant in directing for Elliot Silverstein (Cat Ballou (1965)), Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny (1954)) and Ivan Passer (_Stalin_(1992 TV movie)_), and in editing for Arnold Baker (_Ironside (1967 TV Series)_). Alumni of the prestigious Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship program. As the Academy Intern in Directing, he worked on the Emmy Award-winning show _Picket Fences (1992 TV Series)_ under mentors Michael Pressman (Some Kind of Hero (1982)) and Alice West (_Ally McBeal (1997 TV Series)_), and episodic directors James Frawley (The Muppet Movie (1979)), Lou Antonio (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)), Ron Lagomarsino (_My So-Called Life (1994 TV Series)_), and Michael Schultz (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)). Worked his way through college, attending classes at night while working full-time during the day for four years. He was Senior Copy Editor of Entertainment Law at a publishing company in New York. Was President of the Barnard/Columbia Filmmakers Club, which was started in the early Brian De Palma when he was a student at Columbia.