1. Andrea Patricia Arnold OBE was born on 5 April 1961 and is an English filmmaker and former actress.
28 Facts About Andrea Arnold
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Andrea Arnold won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005.
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Andrea Patricia Arnold was born on 5 April 1961 in Dartford, Kent, the eldest of four children.
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Andrea Arnold was born when her mother was only 16 years old and her father was 17, and they separated when she was very young.
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Andrea Arnold's mother had to bring up all four children alone, which is reminiscent of the narrative in Arnold's third short film, Wasp.
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Andrea Arnold worked in TV for the next 10 years while continually writing on the side.
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Andrea Arnold realized she could turn her stories into films so she studied at the American Film Institute of Los Angeles, where she gained experience in the film industry.
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Andrea Arnold first came to prominence as an actor and television presenter alongside Sandi Toksvig, Nick Staverson and Neil Buchanan in the 1980s children's television show No 73.
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Andrea Arnold won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Wasp, in 2004.
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Andrea Arnold was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow.
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Andrea Arnold won the 2007 BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for directing Red Road.
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In 2008, Andrea Arnold was reported to be directing an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Sharp Objects for French production company Pathe, but the project never materialized.
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Andrea Arnold was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the film industry.
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Andrea Arnold was adamant about shooting the film in chronological order, so that the journey of the film would make sense to new coming actor Katie Jarvis.
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The film and Andrea Arnold were honoured at the 20th Annual Women in Film and TV Awards in 2010.
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Originally, the film adaptation was set to be directed by Peter Webber, who directed Girl with a Pearl Earring, but Andrea Arnold was asked to take over and gladly accepted.
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The film was made in 18 months, which is half the amount of time Andrea Arnold used to make Red Road and Fish Tank.
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Andrea Arnold shot the film in chronological sequence, not telling her actors where they were going next.
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Andrea Arnold's 2021 documentary Cow is a portrait of a dairy-farm cow's life span.
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In June 2023 Andrea Arnold began filming her new project Bird in Kent, with Barry Keoghan in a leading role.
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Andrea Arnold has been very active in working with film festivals around the world.
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Andrea Arnold has been described as a "film festival regular even between films".
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In September 2013, Andrea Arnold was named the New York Film Festival's inaugural Filmmaker in Residence.
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In 2014 Andrea Arnold was announced as the chair of the jury for International Critics' Week at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
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In 2016, Andrea Arnold was chosen to take part in a public conversation about her career as part of the Tribeca Film Festival's "Tribeca Talks" programme.
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Andrea Arnold was named as chair of the Les Arcs Film Festival, which ran from 16 to 23 December 2017.
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In general, Andrea Arnold's films are characterised by the themes of deprivation and impoverishment; for example, both Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights are dramas featuring teenagers living in the poverty-stricken English edge-lands.
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In 2012, Andrea Arnold embarked on an impulsive road-trip of the continental United States, which she states partially inspired the premise of her 2016 feature American Honey.