Stephen Daldry has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End.
16 Facts About Stephen Daldry
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Stephen Daldry has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot, The Hours, and The Reader.
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Stephen Daldry was born in Dorset, the son of singer Cherry and bank manager Patrick Stephen Daldry.
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The family moved to Taunton, Somerset, where his father died of cancer when Stephen Daldry was aged 14.
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Stephen Daldry then trained as an actor on the postgraduate course at East 15 Acting School from 1982 to 1983, now part of the University of Essex.
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Stephen Daldry began his career as an apprentice at the Sheffield Crucible from 1985 to 1988, working under artistic director Clare Venables.
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Stephen Daldry headed productions at the Manchester Library Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Stephen Daldry was Artistic Director of London's Gate Theatre and the Metro Theatre Company.
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Stephen Daldry is currently on the Board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and remains an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre.
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Stephen Daldry was the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2002 at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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Stephen Daldry made his feature film directorial debut with Billy Elliot, which launched the film career of Jamie Bell.
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Stephen Daldry went on to direct a stage musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, and in 2009 his work earned him a Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical.
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Stephen Daldry has made a film version of The Reader, based on the book of the same name and starring Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes.
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Stephen Daldry was initially slated to direct a Star Wars spin off film about the iconic Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi but the film was later scrapped due to the commercial failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story with Stephen Daldry saying the cancellation of the film crushed him and Hossein Amini.
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However, ideas from Stephen Daldry's originally planned film were repurposed for the Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney + limited series directed by Deborah Chow and released in 2022 for which Stephen Daldry received credit as a consulting producer.
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Stephen Daldry was in a relationship with set designer Ian MacNeil for 13 years.