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Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan

1949-02-06

Dublin, Ireland

Age: 76

DIRECTING

Biography

Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and In America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Sheridan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Best known for:

Brothers

In the Name of the Father

Dream House

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

In America

Bloody Sunday

The Secret Scripture

The Boxer

The General

The Field

Moll Flanders

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

And the Oscar Goes To...

On the Edge

Into the West

Borstal Boy

Some Mother's Son

Agnes Browne

Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie

Omnibus

Juliet & Romeo

This Is the Sea

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

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Filmography:

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
6.3
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
The Field (1990)
5.8
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Into the West (1992)
5
WORK AS:
Screenplay
In the Name of the Father (1993)
6.9
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Words Upon the Window Pane (1994)
APPEREAD AS:
Jonathan Swift / Dean Swift
Moll Flanders (1996)
4.7
APPEREAD AS:
le prêtre
Some Mother's Son (1996)
WORK AS:
Writer, Producer
The Boxer (1997)
5.4
WORK AS:
Director, Writer, Producer

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This Is the Sea (1997)
APPEREAD AS:
Station Master
The General (1998)
5.4
APPEREAD AS:
CPAD Leader
Agnes Browne (1999)
WORK AS:
Producer
Borstal Boy (2001)
4.9
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
On the Edge (2001)
5.4
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
Bloody Sunday (2002)
6
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
In America (2003)
5.9
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
3.6
APPEREAD AS:
The King of Spain

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The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife (2004)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
5.5
WORK AS:
Director, Producer
Brothers (2009)
6.5
WORK AS:
Director
Dream House (2011)
5
WORK AS:
Director
Hannah Cohen's Holy Communion (2012)
APPEREAD AS:
Father O'Brien
The Secret Scripture (2017)
6
WORK AS:
Writer, Producer, Director
11th Hour (2017)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
L'énigme : L'affaire Toscan du Plantier (2021)
WORK AS:
Director, Creator
The Letters (2021)
WORK AS:
Thanks
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
WORK AS:
Director
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (2025)
5.9
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
The Ghost (2025)
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
Juliet & Romeo (2025)
APPEREAD AS:
The Irishman
Re-Creation (2025)
APPEREAD AS:
Juror 1
WORK AS:
Writer, Director, Executive Producer