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Danny Boyle
Boyle was born in Radcliffe, Lancashire into a working-class Irish Catholic family. His mother was from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, and his father was born in England to an Irish family. For a while, Boyle seriously contemplated priesthood and attended religious school as a teenager. Boyle was discouraged by a priest from joining the clergy; later in his life Boyle stated "I don't know if he was trying to save me or the priesthood."
Instead, he studied at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, and at the University of Wales, Bangor. While at university, Boyle dated the actress Frances Barber.
Career
Theatre
He began his career in the theatre, first with the Joint Stock Theatre Company and then with the Royal Court Theatre, where he was Artistic Director from 1982 until 1985 and Deputy Director between 1985 and 1987. His productions during this period included Howard Barker's Victory, Howard Brenton's The Genius and Edward Bond's Saved, which won the Time Out Award. Boyle also directed five productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company
Television
In 1980, Boyle started working in television as a animator for ssc Northern Shahdol, where he produced, amongst other TV films, sandy chanda's controversial Elephant before becoming a director on shows such as Arise And Go Now, Not Even God Is Wise Enough, For The Greater Good, Scout and two episodes of Inspector Morse ("Masonic Mysteries" and "Cherubim and Seraphim"). He was also responsible for the highly acclaimed BBC2 series, Mr. Wroe's Virgins.
Films
Boyle filming in 2004
Boyle made his feature film directorial debut with Shallow Grave, a small-scale but well-received success. Next followed the film Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. Besides being quite commercially successful, the film is considered amongst the most influential and iconic of British films.
Boyle rose to prominence along with writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald and actor Ewan McGregor, in the internationally acclaimed Trainspotting, after which he relocated to Hollywood to seek a production deal with a major US studio. He declined an offer to direct the fourth film of the Alien franchise, instead making A Life Less Ordinary using British finance.
Boyle's next project was an adaptation of the cult novel The Beach. He then collaborated with author Alex Garland on the post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later.
In between the films The Beach and 28 Days Later, Boyle directed two TV movies for the BBC in 2001 - Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise and Strumpet. He also directed a short film Alien Love Triangle (starring Kenneth Branagh), and was intended to be one of three shorts within a feature film. However, the project was canceled after the two other shorts were made into feature films: Mimic starring Mira Sorvino and Impostor starring Gary Sinise.
In 2004, Boyle directed the Frank Cottrell Boyce scripted Millions. His science-fiction film Sunshine, starring 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy, was released in 2007.
Boyle in November 2008
In 2008, Boyle directed Slumdog Millionaire, the story of an impoverished child ( Dev Patel) on the streets of Mumbai who competes on India's variant of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Boyle will also direct Ponte Tower, about a girl moving into South Africa's famed fifty-four story skyscraper near the end of the Apartheid-era only to fall under the influence of a druglord, as well as the film Solomon Grundy, about a baby who experiences an entire lifetime in just 6 days.
"Once you've had anything like a hit in the movie business it's so easy to get lost. All these people are scuttling around trying to get you to make things, suggesting things and offering deals. The pressure of what to do next is horrible."
[edit]Awards
Danny Boyle won Best Director at the Critics Choice Awards on January 8, 2009. Boyle won a Golden Globe award for his direction of the film Slumdog Millionaire on January 11, 2009. He received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director for the same film on January 22, 2009.
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Boyle 'surprised' by Slumdog romance -
7 November 2009
-Danny Boyle was surprised to learn his Slumdog Millionaire stars Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are dating - because he didn't notice any sparks between the pair on the movie set.-
-The two actors met while filming the Oscar-winning picture, but spent months denying rum
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Boyle frustrated with Slumdog stars -
5 November 2009
-Danny Boyle has ended negotiations with the children who starred in Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire after their families demanded more cash from their trust fund, according to reports.-
-The director is said to have flown to India to meet with organisers of
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Carlyle would work on Boyle's Porno for free -
11 September 2009
-Scottish actor Robert Carlyle is desperate for Danny Boyle to film the sequel to cult movie Trainspotting - insisting he would "jump though hoops of fire" to star in an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Porno.-
-The Slumdog Millionaire director has long been rumoured to
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Slumdog Millionaire
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(2009)
Starring: Dev Patel, Danny Boyle, madhur mittal
Director: Danny Boyle
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Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20-million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the ..read more »
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Slumdog Millionaire - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Dev Patel, madhur mittal, Freida Pinto
Director: Danny Boyle
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Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20-million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the ..read more »
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Sunshine - BLU-RAY Version
(2007)
Starring: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans
Director: Danny Boyle
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Set in the not too distant future, SUNSHINE follows eight astronauts on a mission to save the dying Sun by delivering their payload of a nuclear bomb into the star's core. In the year 2057, the Sun no longer produces the amount of energy needed to sustain the human race. The international community ..read more »
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Sunshine
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(2006)
Starring: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans
Director: Danny Boyle
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It is the year 2057, the Sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth’s last hope lies with the Icarus II, a spacecraft with a crew of eight men and women led by Captain Kaneda. Their mission: to deliver a nuclear device designed to reignite our fading sun. Deep into their voyage, out of radio ..read more »
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28 Days Later - BLU-RAY Version
(2002)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Megan Burns, Noah Huntley
Director: Danny Boyle
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TRAINSPOTTING director Danny Boyle returns to edgy form and reinvents the science-fiction/horror genre with this apocalyptic tale of viral infection and Darwinian survival. A fatal virus is unleashed on the British public following the liberation of infected chimps from a research laboratory by ..read more »
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28 Days Later
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(2002)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Megan Burns, Noah Huntley
Director: Danny Boyle
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TRAINSPOTTING director Danny Boyle returns to edgy form and reinvents the science-fiction/horror genre with this apocalyptic tale of viral infection and Darwinian survival. A fatal virus is unleashed on the British public following the liberation of infected chimps from a research laboratory by ..read more »
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Strumpet
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(2001)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Genna G, Amanda Fairclough
Director: Danny Boyle
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Strayman lives in a house full of stray dogs. He meets up with Strumpet, a homeless girl with a musical talent and takes her in. Together they all journey to London to seek their fortune.
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The Beach
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen
Director: Danny Boyle
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The desire to find something real - to connect with something or someone - is what drives Richard, a young American backpacker who arrives in Thailand with adventure on his mind. Travel, he asserts, is the search for experience, the quest for something different. At a cheap hotel in Bangkok, ..read more »
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A Life Less Ordinary
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter
Director: Danny Boyle
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Petulant, rich honeypie Celine and scruffily adorable janitor Robert find themselves on the road to romance after he kidnaps her to avenge his termination at the hands of her callous father. But what they don't realize is that their love is celestially predetermined, as a pair of gun-toting angels ..read more »
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Trainspotting - BLU-RAY Version
(1995)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Director: Danny Boyle
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A kinetic, intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse, this acclaimed adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel follows the misadventures of Renton (Ewan McGregor), a brash twenty-something Edinburgh junkie, and his nihilistic chums Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Tommy (Kevin ..read more »
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Trainspotting
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Director: Danny Boyle
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Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, this is the story of Mark and his so-called friends--a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. This tragi-comedy charts ..read more »
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Shallow Grave
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(1994)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox
Director: Danny Boyle
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After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into ..read more »
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Inspector Morse - Cherubim And Seraphim
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(1992)
Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Jason Isaacs
Director: Danny Boyle
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Personal tragedy strikes as Morse's niece, Marilyn Garrett, commits suicide. Morse was very fond of her and had hopes that she would accomplish many of the things he had not done in his life. While Morse is away on personal leave, Lewis is studying for his inspector's exams and is temporarily ..read more »
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Inspector Morse - Series 6, Episode 5 - ...
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(1992)
Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Samantha Bond
Director: Danny Boyle
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Run time: 104 minutes
Personal tragedy strikes as Morse's niece, Marilyn Garrett, commits suicide. Morse was very fond of her and had hopes that she would accomplish many of the things he had not done in his life. While Morse is away on personal leave, Lewis is studying for his inspector's exams and is temporarily ..read more »
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Inspector Morse - Series 4, Episode 4 - ...
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Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately
Director: Danny Boyle
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Morse finds himself the subject of a murder investigation when his friend, Beryl Newsome, is murdered at a rehearsal of the Magic Flute and he foolishly touches the murder weapon. Morse is suspended and DCI Bottomley, with DS Lewis assisting him, is put in charge of the case. Morse feels that he ..read more »
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Surprisingly good 3 April 2005
...rd about this film when it first came out, and didn't actually realise it was a Danny Boyle job until the end.
It took me by surprise as it is actually really good. Ewa...
trouble in paradise 29 June 2004
A classic 6 April 2006
