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    Mike Leigh OBE FRSL (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television. He has received numerous...
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    Mike Leigh is an English director and writer known for his work in film, television and stage. West Eleven (1963) - Uncredited Two Left Feet (1965) - Uncredited...
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    1956) is an English actress known for her frequent collaborations with Mike Leigh, appearing in the films Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets &...
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    Jennifer Jason Leigh (born Jennifer Leigh Morrow; February 5, 1962) is an American actress. She began her career on television during the 1970s before...
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  • Hard Truths (category Films directed by Mike Leigh)
    drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who had previously collaborated with Leigh in Secrets & Lies, and Michele...
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    on stage and screen. He is known for his collaborations with director Mike Leigh, acting in six of his films: Home Sweet Home (1982), Life is Sweet (1990)...
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    1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh film Life Is Sweet and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her...
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  • Naked (1993 film) (category Films directed by Mike Leigh)
    Naked is a 1993 British black comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring David Thewlis as Johnny, a loquacious intellectual, philosopher...
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  • July 2015. Michael Leigh at World Sailing Mike Leigh at Team Canada Mike Leigh at Olympics.com Mike Leigh at Olympedia Mike Leigh at NBC 2012 Summer Olympic...
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    Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet (1990). Notable film roles include Bullets Over Broadway...
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  • Standard Film Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh film Career Girls. Her other film appearances included Leigh's Naked (1993), Before the Rain (1994),...
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  • Life Is Sweet (film) (category Films directed by Mike Leigh)
    comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film...
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    a small part in Nicolas Roeg's The Witches (1990). She starred in the Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies (1996), which earned her a Cannes Film Festival Award...
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  • attention in the play Abigail's Party, written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. Duvitski was born in Morecambe, Lancashire to a Polish father and an...
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    Little Dorrit (1987) and had his breakthrough with lead roles in the Mike Leigh films Life Is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993), winning the Cannes Film Festival...
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  • series Outnumbered. She is also known for her collaboration with director Mike Leigh on two of his films, Life is Sweet (1990) and Naked (1993). Claire Skinner...
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    participant in the films of Mike Leigh, she won the European Film Award for Best Actress for her performance as Shirley in Leigh's High Hopes (1988). Sheen...
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  • Special Presentations Lineup Includes World Premieres From Angelina Jolie, Mike Leigh, Gia Coppola; Starry Pics With Jennifer Lopez, Lily James, Dave Bautista;...
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  • Another Year (film) (category Films directed by Mike Leigh)
    Another Year is a 2010 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. It stars Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, and Ruth Sheen. It follows a...
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  • Secrets & Lies (film) (category Films directed by Mike Leigh)
    is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as...
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  • Vera Drake (category Films directed by Mike Leigh)
    Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan...
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  • industry. She will also be the guest at an In Conversation with... event. Mike Leigh will receive the Director Award, Camille Dalmais and ClĂ©ment Ducol will...
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  • Happy-Go-Lucky (2008 film) (category Films directed by Mike Leigh)
    Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary school teacher...
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  • Michael Leigh may refer to: Mike Leigh, British writer; film/stage director Dr Michael Leigh, Director General, Enlargement, European Commission, Brussels...
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  • Christmas, flogging toys and I got a message from this young director named Mike Leigh. I was nearly 50 at the time, but he wanted a middle-aged woman to do...
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    appeared in several plays by playwright Alan Ayckbourn and in films by Mike Leigh, including Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, and Mr. Turner, which premiered...
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  • April 16, 2023. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto film festival adds Angelina Jolie, Mike Leigh, Edward Burns, David Mackenzie titles". Screen Daily, July 22, 2024. The...
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  • Abigail's Party (category Plays by Mike Leigh)
    Party is a play for stage and television, devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations...
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  • 4 July 2023. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto film festival adds Angelina Jolie, Mike Leigh, Edward Burns, David Mackenzie titles". Screen Daily, July 22, 2024. Mangalindan...
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  • Death" (Mike Leigh). Was in the original Play for Today version of the film Scum as the eloquent Archer. Television appearances include Trevor in Mike Leigh's...
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