Anthony Minghella, was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter.
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26 Facts About Anthony Minghella
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Anthony Minghella was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
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Anthony Minghella won the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient.
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Anthony Minghella was born in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England that is a popular holiday resort.
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Anthony Minghella's family are well known on the Island, where they ran a cafe in Ryde until the 1980s and have run an eponymous business making and selling Italian-style ice cream since the 1950s.
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Anthony Minghella's parents were Edoardo Minghella and Leeds-born Gloria Alberta (nee Arcari).
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Anthony Minghella was one of five children, his sisters Gioia Minghella-Giddens, Edana Minghella and Loretta Minghella, and a brother Dominic Minghella who would become a screenwriter and producer.
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Early interests suggested a possible career as a musician, with Anthony Minghella playing keyboards with local bands Earthlight and Dancer.
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Anthony Minghella graduated after three years and stayed on to pursue a PhD.
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Anthony Minghella taught at the university for several years, on Samuel Beckett and on the medieval theatre.
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Anthony Minghella's double bill of Samuel Beckett's Play and Happy Days was his directorial debut and debut feature film as a director was A Little Like Drowning.
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Anthony Minghella wrote several episodes of the ITV detective drama Inspector Morse and an episode of long-running ITV drama Boon.
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Anthony Minghella's production starred Juliet Stevenson, Bill Nighy and Jenny Howe.
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Anthony Minghella turned down an offer to direct another Inspector Morse to do the project, even though he believed that the Morse episode would have been a much higher-profile ll assignment.
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Anthony Minghella received an Adapted Screenplay nomination for The Talented Mr Ripley.
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Anthony Minghella directed a party election broadcast for the Labour Party in 2005.
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Anthony Minghella was honoured with the naming of The Anthony Minghella Theatre at the Quay Arts Centre.
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Anthony Minghella made an appearance in the 2007 film Atonement as a television host interviewing the novelist central to the story.
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Anthony Minghella shared credit with Michael Tolkin on the screenplay.
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Anthony Minghella met his first wife, Yvonne Miller, when they were students.
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Anthony Minghella and Miller eventually divorced and in 1985 Anthony Minghella married Hong Kong–born choreographer and dancer Carolyn Jane Choa.
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Anthony Minghella's home had two double bedrooms dedicated to the display of Portsmouth memorabilia dating back to the club's founding in 1898.
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Anthony Minghella died of a haemorrhage on 18 March 2008 in Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, following an operation the previous week to remove cancer of the tonsils and neck.
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Anthony Minghella is commemorated with a green plaque on The Avenues, Kingston upon Hull.
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