1. Paul Greengrass was born on 13 August 1955 and is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist.
22 Facts About Paul Greengrass
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Paul Greengrass directed United 93, for which Greengrass won the BAFTA Award for Best Director and received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination; as well as Green Zone and Captain Phillips.
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In 2007, Paul Greengrass co-founded Directors UK, a professional organisation of British filmmakers, and was its first president until 2014.
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Paul Greengrass ranked 28 on EWs The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood in 2007.
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In 2017, Paul Greengrass was honoured with a British Film Institute Fellowship.
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Paul Greengrass was born 13 August 1955 in Cheam, Surrey, England.
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Paul Greengrass's mother Joyce Greengrass was a teacher and his father Phillip Greengrass a river pilot and merchant seaman.
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Paul Greengrass studied English literature at the same time as Roger Michell.
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Paul Greengrass first worked as a director in the 1980s, for the ITV current affairs programme World in Action.
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Paul Greengrass moved into drama, directing non-fiction, made-for-television films such as The One That Got Away, based on Chris Ryan's book about the experiences of the British Army's Special Air Service during the Gulf War and The Fix, based on the 1964 British betting scandal.
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Paul Greengrass directed The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, an account of Stephen Lawrence, a Black British youth whose murder was not properly investigated by the Metropolitan Police.
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In 2004, Paul Greengrass co-wrote the television film Omagh with Guy Hibbert.
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In 2006, Paul Greengrass directed United 93, a film based on the 11 September 2001 hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93.
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Paul Greengrass then returned to the Bourne franchise with The Bourne Ultimatum.
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Paul Greengrass was nominated for BAFTA Best Director at the 61st British Academy Film Awards.
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In 2017, Paul Greengrass began filming 22 July, a docudrama film following the 2011 Norway attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik and their aftermath, on location in Norway.
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In February 2019, Greengrass signed on to direct the film adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel News of the World for Fox 2000 Pictures, reuniting him with actor Tom Hanks.
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In May 2022, it was announced that Paul Greengrass would write and direct medieval action film The Hood, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and based on the story of the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381.
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In November 2023, it was announced that Greengrass would write and direct a film adaptation of the T J Newman novel Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 for Warner Bros.
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Paul Greengrass was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to the arts.
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Paul Greengrass has said that he does not believe in God but has "great respect for the spiritual way".
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Paul Greengrass is married to talent agent Joanna Kaye, with whom he has three children, and is the father of two more children from an earlier marriage.