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'''Stephen Daldry''', CBE (Stephen David Daldry, born 2 May 1960) is a theatre and film director and producer]. He directed  ''Billy Elliot'' (2000), ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]'' (2002),''The Reader'' (2008) and ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' (2011), all of which have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture or Best Director.
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'''Stephen Daldry''', CBE (Stephen David Daldry, born 2 May 1960) is a theatre and film director and producer].
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==Early years==
 
==Early years==
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Daldry was born in [[Dorset]].<ref>http://www.filmreference.com/film/92/Stephen-Daldry.html "Stephen Daldry Biography (1960-)" ''Filmreference.com'''</ref> The family later moved to [[Taunton]], [[Somerset]] and Daldry joined a youth theatre group in [[Taunton]],<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/dec/08/features.review Kate Kellaway "Stephen Daldry: He'll turn his hand to anything", ''The Guardian'' 8 December 2002</ref> and also [http://www.tauntonthespians.org.uk/archive/plays/h/Hay_Fever_78.html performed as Sandy Tyrell in Hayfever for local amateur society Taunton Thespians] and then aged 18 won a [[Royal Air Force]] [[scholarship]] to [[University of Sheffield]] to study English, where he became chairman of SuTCo (Sheffield University Theatre Company).
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Daldry was born in [[Dorset]].<ref>http://www.filmreference.com/film/92/Stephen-Daldry.html "Stephen Daldry Biography (1960-)" ''Filmreference.com'''</ref> The family later moved to [[Taunton]], [[Somerset]], where he joined a youth theatre group in [[Taunton]],<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/dec/08/features.review Kate Kellaway "Stephen Daldry: He'll turn his hand to anything", ''The Guardian'' 8 December 2002</ref> and also [ performed as Sandy Tyrell in Hayfever for local amateur society Taunton Thespians<ref>http://www.tauntonthespians.org.uk/archive/plays/h/Hay_Fever_78.html</ref>. Aged 18 he won a Royal Air Force scholarship to the University of [[Sheffield]] to study English, where he became chairman of SuTCo (Sheffield University Theatre Company).
  
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After graduation, he spent a year travelling through [[Italy]], where he became a [[clown]]'s apprentice. Returning to Sheffield, he became an [[apprentice]] at the [[Crucible Theatre]] from 1985-1988. He then trained as an actor at [[East 15 Acting School]], [[London]].
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After graduation, he spent a year travelling through Italy, where he became a clown's apprentice. Returning to Sheffield, he became an apprentice at the Crucible Theatre from 1985-1988. He then trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School, [[London]].
  
 
==Career==
 
==Career==
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Daldry began his career at the [[Sheffield Crucible]] with Artistic Director [[Clare Venables]] where he directed many productions. He also headed many productions at the Manchester Library Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was also Artistic Director of the [[Royal Court Theatre]] from 1992-8, where he headed the £26 million development scheme. He was also Artistic Director of the [[Gate Theatre, London]] (1989–92) and the Metro Theatre Company (1984-6). He is currently on the Board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and remains an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. He was the [[Cameron Mackintosh]] Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2002 at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]], [[Oxford University|Oxford]]. He won awards on Broadway as well as the West End.
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Daldry began his career at the Sheffield Crucible with Artistic Director where he directed many productions. He also headed many productions at the Manchester Library Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 1992-8, where he headed the £26 million development scheme. He was also Artistic Director of the [[Gate Theatre, London]] (1989–92) and the Metro Theatre Company (1984-6). He is currently on the Board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and remains an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. He was the [[Cameron Mackintosh]] Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2002 at St Catherine's College, [[Oxford]].
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Daldry made his feature film directorial debut in 2000 with ''[[Billy Elliot]]''. His next film was ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]'', and it won Best Actress at the [[Academy Awards]] for [[Nicole Kidman]]. Recently, he directed a stage musical adaptation of ''[[Billy Elliot the Musical|Billy Elliot]]'', and in 2009 his work on it earned him a Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical. He has also made a film version of ''[[The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader]]'', based on the [[The Reader|book of the same name]] and starring [[Kate Winslet]], [[David Kross]], and [[Ralph Fiennes]]. Again, it won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for Kate Winslet. He has received an Academy Award nomination for directing each of his three films.
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Daldry was planning to direct a film adaptation of [[Michael Chabon]]'s [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay]]'' in 2005.<ref>{{cite news |author=Nancy Hass |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/movies/moviesspecial/07hass.html?ex=1169182800&en=53cff6b9ce24cc49&ei=5070 |date=7 November 2004 |title=Scott Rudin's Three Ring Holiday Circus |work=The New York Times |accessdate=2008-05-29}}</ref> In the ensuing three years, the project was cancelled and reinitiated several times, and in late 2006 was partially cast with [[Natalie Portman]] and [[Tobey Maguire]]. According to Chabon, production then stalled due to "studio-politics kinds of reasons that I'm not privy to," and as of April 2007 remains inactive.<ref name=deet>{{cite news |author=Timothy Hodler |title=Michael Chabon Q & A |url=http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_5477 |work=Details |year=2007 |accessdate=2008-05-29}}</ref> The director will soon be working on the broadway musical version of ''[[Dumbo]]'', with Disney Theatricals. The musical is to début on Broadway in 2012.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/theater/04arts-FLYINGELEPHA_BRF.html | work=The New York Times | title=Flying Elephant on Broadway? | first=Patrick | last=Healy | date=2010-03-04}}</ref>
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Daldry's fourth film was ''[[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film)|Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close]]'', an adaptation of the book of the [[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close|same name]] written by [[Jonathan Safran Foer]], starring newcomer [[Thomas Horn]], [[Tom Hanks]], [[Sandra Bullock]] and [[Max Von Sydow]]. The screenplay was written by [[Eric Roth]]. The film received a nomination for Best Picture at the [[84th Academy Awards]] and a nomination for Von Sydow for Best Supporting Actor.
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He directed  ''Billy Elliot'' (2000), ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]'' (2002),''The Reader'' (2008) and ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' (2011), all of which have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture or Best Director. He has also directed a stage musical adaptation of ''Billy Elliot'', which earned him a Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.
  
 
==Personal life==
 
==Personal life==
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Although Daldry has been married since 2001 to [[United States|American]] performance artist and magazine editor Lucy Sexton, with whom he has a daughter, Annabel Clare (born 2003),<ref name=Advocate>{{cite news |last=Giltz |first=Michael |title=The golden Hours |work=The Advocate |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_18/ai_99850228 |date=18 March 2003 |accessdate=2008-05-29 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080120182627/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_18/ai_99850228 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2008-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Stephen Daldry |work=Matt & Andrej Koymasky - The Living Room - Biographies |url=http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biod1/dald1.html |accessdate=2008-05-29}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>  he describes himself simply as a gay man because people prefer it ("they don't like the confusion").<ref name=Guardian2009>{{cite news|title=How Britain became the toast of Broadway: Last week Billy Elliot won 10 Tony awards in New York, crowning a glorious year for British theatre at home and abroad. The following morning we caught up with Stephen Daldry, the award-winning musical's director, to talk about this theatrical renaissance, juggling stage and film projects - and his complex love life |last=Wood |first=Gaby |date=14 June 2009 |newspaper=The Observer |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/14/stephen-daldry-billy-elliot-tonys | location=London}}</ref>
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Although Daldry has been married since 2001 to American performance artist and magazine editor Lucy Sexton, with whom he has a daughter, Annabel Clare (born 2003),<ref name=Advocate>{{cite news |last=Giltz |first=Michael |title=The golden Hours |work=The Advocate |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_18/ai_99850228 |date=18 March 2003 |accessdate=2008-05-29 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080120182627/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_18/ai_99850228 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2008-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Stephen Daldry |work=Matt & Andrej Koymasky - The Living Room - Biographies |url=http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biod1/dald1.html |accessdate=2008-05-29}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>  he describes himself simply as a gay man because people prefer it ("they don't like the confusion").<ref name=Guardian2009>{{cite news|title=How Britain became the toast of Broadway: Last week Billy Elliot won 10 Tony awards in New York, crowning a glorious year for British theatre at home and abroad. The following morning we caught up with Stephen Daldry, the award-winning musical's director, to talk about this theatrical renaissance, juggling stage and film projects - and his complex love life |last=Wood |first=Gaby |date=14 June 2009 |newspaper=The Observer |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/14/stephen-daldry-billy-elliot-tonys | location=London}}</ref>
  
 
He was previously in a relationship with set designer [[Ian MacNeil (scenic designer)|Ian MacNeil]] for 13 years.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Broadway League |url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=14547 |title=Stephen Daldry |publisher=IBDB |accessdate=2010-01-14}}</ref> They met at an outdoor production of ''Alice in Wonderland'' in [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] in 1988, and after settling in a [[bedsit]] in [[Camberwell]], began collaborating on theatrical productions.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-stephen-daldry-and-ian-macneil-1306112.html ''The Independent'' interview, April 21, 1996]</ref><ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=24963 Ian MacNeil at the Internet Broadway Database]</ref>
 
He was previously in a relationship with set designer [[Ian MacNeil (scenic designer)|Ian MacNeil]] for 13 years.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Broadway League |url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=14547 |title=Stephen Daldry |publisher=IBDB |accessdate=2010-01-14}}</ref> They met at an outdoor production of ''Alice in Wonderland'' in [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] in 1988, and after settling in a [[bedsit]] in [[Camberwell]], began collaborating on theatrical productions.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-stephen-daldry-and-ian-macneil-1306112.html ''The Independent'' interview, April 21, 1996]</ref><ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=24963 Ian MacNeil at the Internet Broadway Database]</ref>

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Stephen Daldry, CBE (Stephen David Daldry, born 2 May 1960) is a theatre and film director and producer].

Early years

Daldry was born in Dorset.[1] The family later moved to Taunton, Somerset, where he joined a youth theatre group in Taunton,[2] and also [ performed as Sandy Tyrell in Hayfever for local amateur society Taunton Thespians[3]. Aged 18 he won a Royal Air Force scholarship to the University of Sheffield to study English, where he became chairman of SuTCo (Sheffield University Theatre Company).

After graduation, he spent a year travelling through Italy, where he became a clown's apprentice. Returning to Sheffield, he became an apprentice at the Crucible Theatre from 1985-1988. He then trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School, London.

Career

Daldry began his career at the Sheffield Crucible with Artistic Director where he directed many productions. He also headed many productions at the Manchester Library Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 1992-8, where he headed the £26 million development scheme. He was also Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London (1989–92) and the Metro Theatre Company (1984-6). He is currently on the Board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and remains an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. He was the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2002 at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

He directed Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002),The Reader (2008) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), all of which have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture or Best Director. He has also directed a stage musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.

Personal life

Although Daldry has been married since 2001 to American performance artist and magazine editor Lucy Sexton, with whom he has a daughter, Annabel Clare (born 2003),[4][5] he describes himself simply as a gay man because people prefer it ("they don't like the confusion").[6]

He was previously in a relationship with set designer Ian MacNeil for 13 years.[7] They met at an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland in Lancaster in 1988, and after settling in a bedsit in Camberwell, began collaborating on theatrical productions.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.filmreference.com/film/92/Stephen-Daldry.html "Stephen Daldry Biography (1960-)" Filmreference.com'
  2. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/dec/08/features.review Kate Kellaway "Stephen Daldry: He'll turn his hand to anything", The Guardian 8 December 2002
  3. ↑ http://www.tauntonthespians.org.uk/archive/plays/h/Hay_Fever_78.html
  4. ↑ Template:Cite news
  5. ↑ Template:Cite web Template:Dead link
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  8. ↑ The Independent interview, April 21, 1996
  9. ↑ Ian MacNeil at the Internet Broadway Database
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