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01/05/1954
Ryde, Isle of Wight, England |
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| Family owns a well-known ice cream shop on the Isle of Wight. |
| His breakthrough movie, 1995's The English Patient, was nominated for 12 Oscars and won nine, including Best Director and Best Picture. |
| Made his feature-film directorial debut with the 1991 supernatural romance Truly Madly Deeply, for which he won a Best Original Screenplay BAFTA. |
| Wrote his first play in 1981, Whale Music, and went on to pen the politically charged Made in Bangkok, which won Best Play from the London Critics' Circle. |
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