1. Jim Sheridan was born on 6 February 1949 and is an Irish playwright and filmmaker.
11 Facts About Jim Sheridan
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Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed three critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, My Left Foot, The Field, and In the Name of the Father, and later directed the films The Boxer, In America, and Brothers.
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Jim Sheridan has received six Academy Award nominations for his work.
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Jim Sheridan was born in Dublin on 6 February 1949.
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The family ran a lodging house, while Anna Jim Sheridan worked at a hotel and Peter Jim Sheridan Snr was a railway clerk with CIE.
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Jim Sheridan became involved in student theatre there, where he met Neil Jordan, who was later to become an important Irish film director.
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In 1981, Jim Sheridan emigrated to Canada, but eventually settled in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City in the United States.
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Jim Sheridan enrolled in the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and became the artistic director of the Irish Arts Center.
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Jim Sheridan followed that with The Field in 1990; then with In the Name of the Father in 1993, a fictionalised re-telling of the case of the Guildford Four.
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Jim Sheridan directed the 2009 film Brothers, starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman, which was shot in New Mexico.
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Jim Sheridan directed the thriller Dream House, which starred Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz.