Anthony Minghella Biography

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NAME: Anthony Minghella, CBE
OCCUPATION: Director, Television Producer, Playwright, Screenwriter
BIRTH DATE: January 06, 1954
DEATH DATE: March 18, 2008
EDUCATION: University of Hull

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ryde, Isle of Wight, England
PLACE OF DEATH: London, England

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Anthony Minghella won the Oscar for Best Director for The English Patient (1996). His projects were often very bold.

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Anthony Minghella is an English film director, playwright and screenwriter who began his career in television in the 1980s, scripting children's shows for Jim Henson's The Storyteller. Minghella's directorial film debut, Truly, Madly, Deeply, was released to great reviews in 1990. In 1996, he tackled the screenplay adaptation of the novel The English Patient, winning an Oscar for Best Director.

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Born January 6, 1954, on the Isle of Wight, England. The son of Italian immigrants, Minghella graduated from the University of Hull where he studied English and drama.

He began his career in television in the 1980s, scripting children's shows for the BBC and for Jim Henson's The Storyteller.

Minghella's directorial film debut, Truly, Madly, Deeply, was released to great reviews in 1990. In 1996, Minghella tackled the screenplay adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient. He won a Best Director Academy Award for the beautifully filmed epic starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas and Juliette Binoche.

His next project, The Talented Mr. Ripley, was another screen adaptation, this time starring Matt Damon as an outsider who covets the life of a wealthy playboy. In 2003, he wrote and directed the blockbuster Cold Mountain, adapted from Charles Frazier's bestselling book.

Minghella also directs for the stage; his first opera was Puccini's Madame Butterfly in 2005, and he served as chairman of the British Film Institute.

Minghella died March 18, 2008, after suffering a fatal hemorrhage at Charing Cross Hospital in London. At the time of his death, he was working on the film, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. He is survived by Hong Kong choreographer, Carolyn Choa and their two children.