Stephen Daldry
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Stephen David Daldry, CBE, (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television.
He has received three Olivier Awards for his West End work and two Tony Awards for his Broadway appearances.
At the Academy Awards, he has produced several feature films, including Best Director and/or Best Picture.
Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), The Reader (2008), and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011).
He produced and directed The Crown, a Netflix television show starring two Primetime Emmy Award nominations and one for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series from 2016 to 2019.
Daldry was nominated for direction in theatre, television, and film by an elite group of directors.
Early years
Daldry, the son of singer Cherry (née Thompson) and bank manager Patrick Daldry, was born in Dorset. The family then moved to Taunton, Somerset, where his father died of cancer when Daldry was 14 years old.
Daldry was a member of a youth drama group in Taunton, Somerset. Sandy Tyrell of Hay Fever performed in Taunton Thespians, the local amateur group. He received a Royal Air Force scholarship to read English at the University of Sheffield, where he became chairman of the Sheffield University Theatre Company at the age 18.
He spent a year in Italy, where he became a clown's apprentice after graduation. He then trained as an actor on the postgraduate course at East 15 Acting School, which now belongs to the University of Essex.
Personal life
Daldry was in a 13-year relationship with set designer Ian MacNeil. They appeared at an outdoor performance of Alice in Wonderland in 1988, and after settling in Camberwell, they began collaborating on theatrical productions.
Daldry, who was heavily impacted by the September 11 attacks in the United States, decided he wanted to start a family and married American performance artist and magazine editor Lucy Sexton, with whom he has a child. Despite this, the gay rights campaigner persists to identify himself as gay because the common "don't like confusion."
Career
Daldry began as an apprentice at the Sheffield Crucible from 1985 to 1988, under artistic director Clare Venables. He has also produced at the Manchester Library Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 1992-98, where he oversaw the £26 million reconstruction program. He was also Artistic Director of London's Gate Theatre (1989-1992) and the Metro Theatre Company (1984-1986). He is currently on the board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and is also an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. For 2002 at St Catherine's College, Oxford, he was the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre.
Daldry made his feature film directorial debut with Billy Elliot (2000), which began Jamie Bell's film career. Nicole Kidman's first Best Actress award at the Academy Awards was his next film, The Hours. Billy Elliot's stage musical version was later discovered by him, and he was given the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical in 2009. He has also produced a film version of The Reader (2008), based on the book of the same name and starring Kate Winslet, David Kross, and Ralph Fiennes. Kate Winslet's film was named Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Daldry's fourth film, was based on Jonathan Safran Foer's book "Extraordinary Loud & Incredibly Close, starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, and Max von Sydow. Eric Roth wrote the screenplay. At the 84th Academy Awards for Best Picture, as well as a nomination for Best Supporting Actor von Sydow. Daldry had intended to direct a Star Wars spin off film based on Obi Wan Kenobi's legendary Star Wars character, but the film was cancelled due to commercial failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story with Daldry, according to Daldry, who says the film destroyed him and Hossein Amini. However, plans from Daldry's initial film were reused for the Obi Wan Kenobi Disney+ limited series, directed by Deborah Chow and launched in 2022, for which Daldry received recognition as a consulting producer. Daldry would produce a script based on the hit Netflix television show Stranger Things in July 2022. There has been no plot, story, or character information for the potential play.