Kirsten Sheridan

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Kirsten Sheridan (born July 14, 1976 in Dublin ) is an Irish director , screenwriter , producer and actress .

Life

Kirsten Sheridan was born in Dublin as the daughter of the famous Irish director Jim Sheridan . In 1981 the family moved to New York City with five year old Kirsten , where she spent most of her childhood and school years. Years later, she returned to Ireland with the family in 1989. In the same year Jim Sheridan landed with his Oscar award-winners Drama My Left Foot : (My Left Foot The Story of Christy Brown) an overwhelming success. In the film, Kirsten Sheridan played alongside leading actor Daniel Day-Lewis and a younger sister of the title character Christy Brown. In 1993 she attended New York University to learn screenwriting skills. She then attended University College Dublin . She graduated from the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design there in 1998 with the short film Patterns , which won various prizes at festivals in Clermont-Ferrand, Cork, Galway, Dresden, Aspen and Chicago. Her next short film, The Case of Majella McGinty, about a young girl who escapes her stressful life hidden in a suitcase, won awards at the Foyle, Cork, San Francisco, Cologne and Houston festivals.

She made her directorial debut in a feature film in 2001 with Disco Pigs , a film about a teenage couple and their long-standing obsessive and anti-social friendship. The film received nominations for Best Director's Work at the British Independent Film Awards and the Irish Film & TV Academy Awards .

Together with her sister Naomi Sheridan , she wrote the screenplay for In America in 2002 . The film, directed by her father Jim Sheridan, is based on the family's experiences in New York and their modest financial circumstances. Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.

In 2007 Sheridan's next directorial work, The Sound of the Heart , starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers , Keri Russell and Freddie Highmore in the lead roles. Her drama Das Puppenhaus followed in 2012 .

Directing work and scripts

  • 1995: The Bench (short film)
  • 1996: Gentleman Caller (short film)
  • 1997: Walking Into Mirrors (short film)
  • 1997: Between Two Worlds
  • 1998: Patterns (short film)
  • 1998: Ward Zone
  • 1999: The Case of Majella McGingy (short film)
  • 2001: Disco Pigs
  • 2002: In America
  • 2007: The Sound of the Heart (August Rush)
  • 2012: The Dollhouse

actress

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personal data
SURNAME Sheridan, Kirsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin