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Stephen Daldry

Stephen David DaldryCBE(born 2 May 1960)[citation needed]is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won threeTony Awardsfor his work onBroadwayand anOlivier Awardfor his work in theWest End.He has received three Academy Awards nominations forBest Director,for the filmsBilly Elliot(2000),The Hours(2002), andThe Reader(2008).

Stephen Daldry
CBE
Daldry in 2013
Born
Stephen David Daldry

(1960-05-02)2 May 1960(age 64)
Dorset,England
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield
East 15 Acting School,University of Essex
Occupation(s)Director, producer
Years active1985–present
Spouse
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(m.2001)​
Children1
AwardsFull list

From 2016 to 2020, he produced and directed the Netflix television seriesThe Crown,for which he received oneProducers Guild Awardnomination, one Producers Guild Award win, sixPrimetime Emmy Awardnominations, and two Primetime Emmy Awards win forOutstanding Directing for a Drama SeriesandOutstanding Drama Series.Daldry joined an elite group of directors by receiving nominations for direction in theatre, television, and film.

Early years

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Daldry was born inDorset,the son of singer Cherry (née Thompson) and bank manager Patrick Daldry.[1]The family moved toTaunton,Somerset,where his father died of cancer when Daldry was aged 14.[2]

Daldry joined a youth theatre group in Taunton, Somerset[3]and performed as Sandy Tyrell inHay Feverfor the local amateur society, Taunton Thespians. At age 18, he won aRoyal Air Forcescholarship to read English at theUniversity of Sheffield,where he became chairman of the Sheffield University Theatre Group.[4]

After graduation, he spent a year travelling throughItaly,where he became aclown'sapprentice.[citation needed]He then trained as an actor on the postgraduate course atEast 15 Acting Schoolfrom 1982 to 1983, now part of theUniversity of Essex.[citation needed]

Career

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Daldry began his career as an apprentice at theSheffield Cruciblefrom 1985 to 1988, working under artistic directorClare Venables.He also headed productions at theManchester Library Theatre,Liverpool Playhouse,Stratford East, Oxford Stage, Brighton and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He was Artistic Director of theRoyal Court Theatrefrom 1992 to 1998, where he headed the £26 million development scheme. He was also Artistic Director of London'sGate Theatre(1989–92) and the Metro Theatre Company (1984–86). He is currently on the Board of the Young and Old Vic Theatres and remains an Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. He was theCameron MackintoshVisiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2002 atSt Catherine's College, Oxford.[5]

Daldry made his feature film directorial debut withBilly Elliot(2000), which launched the film career ofJamie Bell.His next film wasThe Hours,which earnedNicole Kidmanher firstBest Actresswin at theAcademy Awards.He went on to direct astage musical adaptation ofBilly Elliot,and in 2009 his work earned him a Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical. He has also made a film version ofThe Reader(2008), based on thebook of the same nameand starringKate Winslet,David KrossandRalph Fiennes.The film won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for Kate Winslet. Daldry's fourth film wasExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close,an adaptation of the book of thesame namewritten byJonathan Safran Foer,starringTom Hanks,Sandra Bullock,andMax von Sydow.The screenplay was written byEric Roth.The film received a nomination for Best Picture at the84th Academy Awardsand a nomination for von Sydow for Best Supporting Actor.[6]

Daldry was initially slated to direct a Star Wars spin off film about the iconicStar WarscharacterObi-Wan Kenobibut the film was later scrapped due to the commercial failure ofSolo: A Star Wars Storywith Daldry saying the cancellation of the film crushed him andHossein Amini.However, ideas from Daldry's originally planned film were repurposed for theObi-Wan KenobiDisney +limited series directed byDeborah Chowand released in 2022 for which Daldry received credit as a consulting producer.[7]In July 2022, it was revealed that Daldry would work withSonia Friedmanto develop a play based on the hitNetflixtelevision showStranger Things.[8]The play entitledStranger Things: The First Shadowpremiered in December 2023 at thePhoenix TheatreinLondon'sWest End.

Personal life

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Daldry was in a relationship with set designerIan MacNeilfor 13 years.[9]They met at an outdoor production ofAlice in WonderlandinLancasterin 1988 and, after settling inCamberwell,began collaborating on theatrical productions.[10][11]

Greatly impacted[clarification needed]by theSeptember 11 attacksin the United States, Daldry decided he wanted to start a family and married American performance artist and magazine editorLucy Sexton,with whom he has a daughter.[12][13]Despite this, he continues to refer to himself asgaybecause the public "[doesn't] like confusion"[14]although he has also suggested that they married so he could get health insurance.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Distribution
1998 Eight short film
2000 Billy Elliot Universal Pictures
2002 The Hours Miramax Films
2008 The Reader The Weinstein Company
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Warner Bros. Pictures
2014 Trash Universal Pictures
2021 Together BBC Film/Bleecker Street

Television

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Year Title Notes
2012 Games of the XXX Olympiad Opening Ceremony "Isles of Wonder"
2012 Games of the XXX Olympiad Closing Ceremony "A Symphony of British Music"
2016–23 The Crown 5 episodes
2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi Consulting Producer

Theatre

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Broadway

Year Title Theatre
1994 An Inspector Calls Booth Theatre
1999 Via Dolorosa
2008 Billy Elliot: The Musical Imperial Theatre
2015 Skylight John Golden Theatre
The Audience Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
2019-20 The Inheritance Ethel Barrymore Theater
2024-25 Stranger Things: The First Shadow Phoenix Theatre

London

Detailed theatreography

  • The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool, England, then Theatre Royale, Stratford, England, 1988
  • An Inspector Calls,York Theatre Royal, 1988
  • Judgement Day,Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 1989
  • Figaro Gets Divorced,Gate Theatre, London, 1990
  • Cutting Room,Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, 1990
  • Our Man in MarzibahandRousseau's Tale(double-bill), Gate Theatre, 1991
  • Damned for Despair,Gate Theatre, 1991
  • Jerker,Gate Theatre, 1991
  • (WithAnnie Castledine)Pioneers in Ingolstadt,Gate Theatre, 1991
  • (WithAnnie Castledine)Purgatory in Ingolstadt,Gate Theatre, 1991
  • Manon Lescaut,Dublin Grand Opera, 1992
  • An Inspector Calls,National Theatre Company, Lyttelton Theatre, London, 1992, then Royale Theatre, New York City, 1994–1995, *later Garrick Theatre, London, 1995, finally Playhouse Theatre, London, 2016–17
  • Search and Destroy,Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1993
  • Machinal,National Theatre Company, Lyttelton Theatre, 1993
  • The Europeans,1993
  • The Kitchen,Royal Court Theatre, 1994
  • The Editing Process,Royal Court Theatre, 1994
  • Rat in the Skull,Duke of York's Theatre, London, 1995
  • The Libertine,Royal Court Theatre, 1995
  • The Man of Mode,Royal Court Theatre, 1995
  • Body Talk,Royal Court Theatre, 1996
  • This Is a Chair,in London International Festival of Theatre, London, 1997
  • Via Dolorosa(solo show), Royal Court Theatre, 1998, then Booth Theatre, New York City, 1999
  • Far Away,Royal Court Theatre, 2000, then New York Theatre Workshop, New York City, 2002–2003
  • A Number,Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, 2002, then New York Theatre Workshop, 2002–2003
  • The Jungle,Young Vic,2017–2018, thenSt. Ann's Warehouse,2018

Awards and honours

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Main article:List of awards and nominations received by Stephen Daldry

References

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  1. ^"Stephen Daldry Biography".Filmreference.Retrieved14 January2010.
  2. ^"ENTERTAINMENT | Stephen Daldry: From stage to screen".BBC News.13 March 2001.Retrieved15 June2017.
  3. ^Kellaway, Kate (8 December 2002)."Stephen Daldry: He'll turn his hand to anything".The Guardian.London, UK.
  4. ^Kellaway, Kate (8 December 2002)."Stephen Daldry: He'll turn his hand to anything".The Guardian.London, UK.
  5. ^"St. Catherine's College Oxford | 2002".stcatz.ox.ac.uk.Retrieved24 March2021.
  6. ^"THE 84TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 2012".Oscars.org.7 October 2014.Retrieved26 May2020.
  7. ^"'Obi-Wan Kenobi' was originally planned as a film trilogy, but 'Solo' disappointment killed the idea ".28 June 2022.
  8. ^"Stranger Things spin-offs to include play made by British theatre duo".bbc.co.uk.BBC News. 7 July 2022.Retrieved7 July2022.
  9. ^The Broadway League."Stephen Daldry".IBDB.Retrieved14 January2010.
  10. ^"HOW WE MET: STEPHEN DALDRY AND IAN MACNEIL".Independent.co.uk.21 April 1996.Archivedfrom the original on 25 May 2022.
  11. ^League, The Broadway."Ian MacNeil – Broadway Cast & Staff – IBDB".ibdb.
  12. ^Giltz, Michael (18 March 2003)."The golden Hours".The Advocate.Archived fromthe originalon 20 January 2008.Retrieved29 May2008.
  13. ^"Stephen Daldry".Matt & Andrej Koymasky – The Living Room – Biographies.Archived fromthe originalon 9 May 2008.Retrieved20 May2008.
  14. ^Wood, Gaby (14 June 2009)."How Britain became the toast of Broadway".The Observer.London.Retrieved4 August2024.
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