16 Facts About Carol Morley

Carol Anne Morley was born on 14 January 1966 and is an English film director, screenwriter and producer.

Carol Morley is best known for her semi-documentary Dreams of a Life, released in 2011, about Joyce Carol Vincent, who died in her North London bedsit in 2003, but was not discovered until 2006.

Carol Morley's father died by suicide when she was eleven and at the age of twelve she started drinking alcohol.

In 1982, the same year Carol Morley left school, the nightclub The Hacienda opened in Manchester.

Carol Morley spent a lot of time at the Hacienda until she was 21 and left Manchester.

Somewhere in between 1986 and 1987 Carol Morley left Stockport and Manchester to live in London.

Carol Morley decided to attend Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where she studied Fine Art Film.

Carol Morley graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1993 with an honours degree in fine art film and video.

Carol Morley did not return to Manchester for twelve years and when she did it was to make her documentary The Alcohol Years.

Carol Morley has written and directed a total of 12 films from 1993 to 2011, ranging in length from 3 minutes to 93 minutes.

Carol Morley made two-degree films at Central Saint Martins, one of which is called Girl.

Five years of her life were lost due to heavy drinking and in the documentary Carol Morley seeks to find out what really happened during this time by interviewing those she knew.

In 2006 the remains of 38-year-old Joyce Carol Morley Vincent were found in her apartment, three years after her death.

Carol Morley was a guest at the 4th annual Screen Stockport Film Festival, answering questions on her new film The Falling.

In May 2017 it was announced that Carol Morley would be directing Patricia Clarkson in Out of Blue, an adaptation of Martin Amis' Night Train.

In 2021, filming began on Typist Artist Pirate King, a film written and directed by Carol Morley based on the life of artist Audrey Amiss.