Jim Sheridan Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Director , Screenwriter , Producer more
Nationality Irish
Birth February 6, 1949 (Dublin – Ireland)

BIOGRAPHY
As a teenager, Jim Sheridan played in a small theater troupe founded by his father. After studying English and philosophy at University College Dublin, he devoted his time to theater, serving as artistic director of the Projects Art Center in Dublin from 1976 to 1980, then directing the Irish Arts Center for five years.

In 1989, he began a filmography strongly anchored in the history of his country. My Left Foot , which relates the life of the paralytic painter and writer Christy Brown, imposes the actor Daniel Day-Lewis and breathes new life into Irish cinema. The film was nominated five times for an Oscar and won the Golden Bear in Berlin. A year later, Sheridan directed The Field , a drama dealing with the fight of a farmer, played by Richard Harris , against real estate developers.

Jim Sheridan, who serves as screenwriter on all his films, reunited with Daniel Day-Lewis in 1993 for In the Name of the Father , a drama inspired by the scandalous trial of the “Guildford Four”. He continued his collaboration with the actor in 1997 with The Boxer , where the tragic story of a fallen boxer against the backdrop of the Irish conflict.

Producer of most of his films, but also for others ( Agnes Browne by Anjelica Huston , Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass ), Jim Sheridan made, in 1998, a small appearance as an actor in The General by John Boorman . In 2002, he directed his fifth feature film, the drama In America .

With Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson as the main actor, he filmed the film Succeed or Die in 2004, a sort of biopic dedicated to the famous rapper. It is Bono who allows the meeting between the two personalities. Two years later, the director obtained a shock casting with Tobey Maguire , Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman to play in the drama Brothers , evoking the complex relationships between two very different brothers, aggravated by the trauma caused by the war in Afghanistan experienced by the ‘one of them.

In 2010, he began directing the thriller Dream House with actors Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts . This is a first for the director, as he had never tackled a horror film.