Jim Sheridan
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Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
In the few years from 1989 to 1993, Sheridan directed two critically acclaimed films set in Ireland (My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father) that between them received 13 Academy Award nominations.
Sheridan has personally received six Academy Award nominations.
In addition to the above-mentioned films, he is also known for the films The Boxer and In America.
Life and career
Jim Sheridan was born in Dublin, Ireland, on February 6, 1949. He is Peter Sheridan's brother. Anna Sheridan worked at a hotel, and Peter Sheridan Snr was a railway clerk with CIÉ. Sheridan's early education was at a Christian Brothers academy. He studied English and History at University College Dublin in 1969. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1972. He became involved in university theater, where he met Neil Jordan, who later went on to become a popular Irish film director. Sheridan and his brother began writing and staging plays after graduating from UCD in 1972, and the Project Theatre Company began in the late 1970s.
Sheridan immigrated to Canada in 1981 but eventually settled in New York City's Hell's Kitchen section. He enrolled in Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and became the artistic director of the Irish Arts Center.
Sheridan returned to Ireland in the late 1980s. He directed My Left Foot, a dramatic and commercial success that went on to win Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker Academy Awards in 1989. He continued his playing with The Field (with Richard Harris) in 1990 and then with In the Name of the Father, a fictionalized retelling of the Guildford Four cases. At the 44th Berlin International Film Festival, the film took home the Golden Bear.
Terry George co-wrote Some Mother's Son in 1996. In 1997, The Boxer (with Daniel Day-Lewis) was nominated for a Golden Globe for best film drama. Sheridan's third collaboration with Day-Lewis after My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, making him the only director to work with Day-Lewis on three films. He published In America, a semi-autobiographical novel that tells the tale of an Irish immigrant family trying to thrive in New York in 2003. Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou Academy Award nominations were given for the film by critical critics. Get Rich or Die Tryin', a film starring rap actor 50 Cents, was released in 2005.
Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal were co-stars on the 2009 film Brothers, directed by Sheridan, which was shot in New Mexico. He also produced the film Dream House, which starred Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz.
He is Anne and Pete Sheridan's son. He has four children: his youngest daughter Amira Clodagh Sheridan with Film Director Zahara Moufid and 3 other daughters Kirsten Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, Tess Sheridan with Fran Sheridan. Jim Sheridan has 26 siblings in his family: Ita Rafferty, Peter Sheridan, John Sheridan, Frankie Sheridan, Gerard Sheridan, and Paul Sheridan.
Sheridan was named UCD Alumnus of the Year in Arts & Humanities in 2015.