The structural recipe requires opening with "the single most-cited work in the fact sheet," but no specific film or work title appears in the FACTS list. I'll open instead with the most concrete professional fact available and keep the bio tightly anchored to what the FACTS support.

Brett Ratner is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter who has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a recognition that places him among a select group of entertainment figures honored on that landmark stretch of Hollywood Boulevard.

He was born on March 28, 1969, in Miami Beach, Florida, and attended Miami Beach Senior High School before heading north to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. That training at Tisch, one of the country's prominent film schools, gave Ratner a formal grounding in the craft before he moved into professional production.

Working in English and holding United States citizenship, Ratner built a career that spans directing, producing, and screenwriting. The combination of those three roles means he has been involved in film projects at multiple levels of the creative and logistical process, rather than occupying a single fixed position in the industry.

His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame stands as the most concrete public marker of his standing in the film business — a physical, permanent record of his career in Los Angeles's entertainment industry. Ratner attended Miami Beach Senior High School and later NYU Tisch, and that educational path from South Florida to New York shaped the early years of a career that eventually brought him the Walk of Fame recognition.

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Note: The FACTS provided contain no named films, collaborators, or influences, so the structural recipe's requirements for a "single defining work" and a "named influence or successor" cannot be fulfilled without inventing information. The bio above stays strictly within the evidence. Word count is reduced accordingly per Rule 4.