Roger Michell

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Roger Michell, born 5 June 1956), is a British theatre, television, and film director.

Early life and education

Michell was born in Pretoria, South Africa's Union, on June 5th, 1956. He wasn't South African, as some incorrectly believed, but he was born there because his father, a British diplomat, had been sent to South Africa. Michell spent part of his childhood in Beirut, Damascus, and Prague; he and his family were in Prague during the 1968 invasion. He studied at Clifton College in Bristol, where he began directing and writing short plays before deciding to read English at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he directed and performed in hundreds of plays, winning both the RSC Buzz Goodbody Award for Best Student Director and First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He graduated in 1977.

Personal life

Michell was married to actress Kate Buffery, and they had two children: Rosanna Michell, who became a theatrical agent and actor, and actor Harry Michell.

Anna Maxwell Martin married after his exile from Buffery. Maggie and Nancy were their two children. Maxwell Martin announced in 2020 that she and Michell had separated.

Roger Michell died on September 22nd, 2021, at the age of 65.

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Career

Michell moved to Brighton, where he directing Peter Gill's Small Change and other performances for the Brighton Actors Workshop. He became an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre in 1978, assisting John Osborne, Max Stafford-Clark, and Samuel Beckett among others. Antonia Bird, Simon Curtis, Hanif Kureishi, and, as his stage manager, Danny Boyle, were among Michell's contemporaries on the court.

He left the Royal Court Theatre in 1979 and began writing and directing as a freelance, the most notable of which was Private Dick, a comedy about Raymond Chandler that opened at the Lyric Hammersmith with great reviews, and then moved to the West End with Robert Powell as Philip Marlowe.

Michell joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1985, where he supervised Shakespeare, Havel, Nelson, Bond, Farquhar, Darke, and others, including Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad, which came to Broadway in 1990. Michell was named Judith E Wilson Senior Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1989.

Michell was a graduate of the BBC Directors' Course, a three-month course that was specifically designed to aid theatre producers in understanding the camera. Subsequently, his first television show was the three-part Leigh Jackson thriller Downtown Lagos, directed by Michael Wearing, which later culminated in Hanif Kureishi's autobiographical book The Buddha of Suburbia, which starred Naveen Andrews and was produced by him. He continued his journey with Jane Austen's Persuasion, 1995, one of Australia's finest Austen adaptations and a recipient of the 1995 BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama. From the award-winning play that he directed at the Royal Court and for a year in the West End, Michell created My Night with Reg (1997). The next was Titanic Town (1998), a tale set in Northern Ireland in the 1970s starring Julie Walters and Ciaran Hinds, the recipient of Emden and Locarno Awards.

Michell directed a number of productions at the National Theatre, including Mustapha Matura, Pinter's The Homecoming, Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, Robert Smith's Conviction, Granville Barker's Conscience, Anthony Murray Smith's Honor, Kevin Smith's Reflection, and Bellvy's Recent, Allston's Decade, Benny Smith's Obsession, Bennett Murray Smith's Honour, Manuel Thomas Smith's Virtue Richard Curtis asked Michell to direct his script Notting Hill, which became an award-winning smash hit and the highest British Box Office success of all time. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson appeared in the 2002 critical box office success Changing Lanes.

Michell opted to live in the United Kingdom for the next decade, and he produced The Mother, his second collaboration with Hanif Kureishi starring Anne Reid and Daniel Craig. Craig appeared in Michell's sequel, Enduring Love (2004), an adaptation of Ian McEwan's book, before directing Peter O'Toole in 2006's Venus, which was again written by Kureishi. Nick Darke, Joe Penhall, Joanna Murray Smith, and Nina Raine formed one of many key writer-to-film friendships, including Nick Darke, Joseph Penhall, Joanna Murray Smith, and Nina Raine.

Michell had been in talks to collaborate with Craig on what became the James Bond film Quantum of Solace in 2006, but after months of unproductive script talks, and in spite of good links with the designers, he jumped ship. Michell later revealed that he reached a "tipping point" with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, who were "desperate" to announce the next 007 film in 2007, despite the lack of a script. This "freaked" Michell out, with a writer's strike getting closer, development ramping up, and still no solid script or story to tell. The filmmakers eventually postponed the film a year, before finally launching Marc Forster at the helm.

He continued to work in theatre, at Hampstead Theatre with Richard Nelson's Farewell to the Theatre; at the Royal Court with Joe Penhall's Birthday; and Nina Raine's Tribes; and Penhall's Mood Music, starring Ben Chaplin. J. Abrams' next film, Morning Glory, a comedy starring Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford, was released in the world of morning news.

Bill Murray was then directed by Michell to play FDR in Hyde Park on Hudson, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Le Week-End, another award-winning project starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, was also shot and filmed in Paris. Michell produced the much-lauded two-part television drama How Long Will I Love You? after working with Ellie Goulding on the mini rom-com How Long Will I Love You? and told the true-life story of a retired schoolteacher accused of murder. Jefferies was not innocent, but merely one of Michell's teachers at school. Michell's second BAFTA, as well as RTS and other honors, was won by the film.

Sam Claflin and Rachel Weisz's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's book My Cousin Rachel, starring Sam Claflin and Rachel Weisz; the award-winning documentary About a Dame starring Kate Winslet, Sam Neill, Susan Sarandon, Mia Wasikowska, and Lindsay Duncan; and The Duke, starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent; and the premiere of the 2020 Venice Film Festival. There is one more cinema film to follow.

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