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Personal Details
Other Works:
Playwright:
"The Silent Majority"
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Publicity Listings:
3 Print Biographies
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14 Interviews
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11 Articles
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Alternate Names:
Mike Leigh OBE
Height:
5' 7" (1.7 m)
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Personal Quote:
In many ways, my parents in an unconscious way wanted to be as English as possible. They went to the theatre, to Stratford, to the Halle. My father only ever voted Labour. They were very bourgeois, very neurotic and very insular. When I went to Israel in 1960 we were on a kibbutz and we insisted on having a discussion about whether you could be an artist on a kibbutz. Of course, what we were ...
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Trivia:
Most of his work in theatre and film is done without any initial script. He and the actors improvise their characters and the scenes under his overall control.
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Trademark:
Films frequently center on the British working class
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