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Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between work for the theatre and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterized by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style. His well-known films include Life is Sweet (1990), the comedy-drama Career Girls (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy Turvy (1999), and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are arguably Naked (1993) for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the BAFTA-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Palme d'Or winner Secrets & Lies (1996) and Golden Lion winner Vera Drake (2004). His films and stage plays, according to the critic Michael Coveney, "comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period." Coveney further noted Leigh's role in helping to create stars – Liz Smith in Hard Labour, Alison Steadman in Abigail's Party, Brenda Blethyn in Grown-Ups, Antony Sher in Goose-Pimples, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in Meantime, Jane Horrocks in Life is Sweet, David Thewlis in Naked – and remarked that the list of actors who have worked with him over the years – including Sheila Kelley, Paul Jesson, Phil Daniels, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Sharp, Kathy Burke, Stephen Rea, Eric Richard, Julie Walters – "comprises an impressive, almost representative, nucleus of outstanding British acting talent." Ian Buruma, writing in the New York Review of Books in January 1994, noted: "It is hard to get on a London bus or listen to the people at the next table in a cafeteria without thinking of Mike Leigh. Like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leigh's London is as distinctive as Fellini's Rome or Ozu's Tokyo." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1943-02-20
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 5.5
- info Birth Place Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Mike Leigh
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Looking for Truffaut
2009-01-01
5.8
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2000-12-31
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Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021-10-20
6.3
Inside the Golden Statue
1998-01-01
4.6
Cinema16: British Short Films
2003-05-05
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Untitled 13
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Her Name Was Moviola
2024-06-14
5.8
Cannes Uncut
2023-06-12
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982-09-04
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The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014-11-24
3.9
Welcome to Hollywood
1998-10-01
6.3
Vittorio D.
2009-09-17
6.4
What Is Cinema?
2013-09-06
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Mike Leigh: The Conversation
2000-04-23
0.5
Scenes from A Separation
2018-10-04
6.3
All About 'Abigail's Party'
2007-01-01
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Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020-10-12
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Two Left Feet
1963-03-16
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Citizen B
2025-01-17
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016-06-13
4.6
The One Show
2006-08-14
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The Culture Show
2004-11-11
3.7
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007-09-03
6.9
Maigret
1960-10-31
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The Oscars
1953-03-19
8.5
Reel Britannia
2022-06-09
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Square
2012-01-08
movie_edit Directing
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Happy-Go-Lucky
2008-04-18
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Happy-Go-Lucky
2008-04-18
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Secrets & Lies
1996-05-24
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Secrets & Lies
1996-05-24
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Naked
1993-09-14
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Naked
1993-09-14
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Vera Drake
2004-10-22
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Vera Drake
2004-10-22
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Abigail's Party
1977-11-01
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All or Nothing
2002-05-17
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All or Nothing
2002-05-17
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Life Is Sweet
1990-11-15
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Life Is Sweet
1990-11-15
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A Sense of History
1992-09-12
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Topsy-Turvy
1999-12-15
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Topsy-Turvy
1999-12-15
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Another Year
2010-11-05
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Another Year
2010-11-05
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High Hopes
1989-01-13
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High Hopes
1989-01-13
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The Short & Curlies
1987-12-01
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Career Girls
1997-06-01
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Career Girls
1997-06-01
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Meantime
1983-10-16
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Meantime
1983-10-16
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Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993-04-05
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Bleak Moments
1971-11-30
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A Running Jump
2012-06-24
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Grown-Ups
1980-11-27
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Four Days in July
1984-11-29
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Who's Who
1979-02-05
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The Permissive Society
1975-04-09
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The Kiss of Death
1977-01-10
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The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
1982-09-05
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Old Chums
1982-09-06
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A Light Snack
1982-09-08
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Probation
1982-09-07
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Afternoon
1982-09-09
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Mr. Turner
2014-10-31
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Nuts in May
1976-01-13
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Nuts in May
1976-01-13
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Home Sweet Home
1982-03-16
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Hard Truths
2024-12-06
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A Mug's Game?
1973-03-08
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A Mug's Game?
1973-03-08
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Bleak Moments
1971-11-30
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The Kiss of Death
1977-01-10
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Abigail's Party
1977-11-01
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The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
1982-09-05
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Old Chums
1982-09-06
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Probation
1982-09-07
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A Light Snack
1982-09-08
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Afternoon
1982-09-09
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The Short & Curlies
1987-12-01
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Cinema16: British Short Films
2003-05-05
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The Party
2009-05-25
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Peterloo
2018-11-01
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Peterloo
2018-11-01
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Hard Truths
2024-12-06
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Hard Labour
1973-03-12
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Hard Labour
1973-03-12
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Mr. Turner
2014-10-31
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A Running Jump
2012-06-24
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The Permissive Society
1975-04-09
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Who's Who
1979-02-05
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Grown-Ups
1980-11-27
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Four Days in July
1984-11-29
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Home Sweet Home
1982-03-16
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Mike Leigh's the Pirates of Penzance - English National Opera
2015-05-19
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Untitled Mike Leigh Film
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Play for Today
1970-10-15
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Play for Today
1970-10-15
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Five-Minute Films
1982-09-05
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Five-Minute Films
1982-09-05
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Five-Minute Films
1982-09-05