Anthony Minghella

Height:	5' 8 1/2"
Birth Notes:	Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Birth Date:	6 January 1954

Anthony Minghella Trivia

Friend of 'Tony Blair (I)'.
Winner of the Giles Cooper Award in 1988 for "Cigarettes and Chocolate".
Brother of writers 'Edana Minghella' and 'Dominic Minghella'.
Born to Edward Minghella, who was Italian-Scottish, and his wife Gloria, whose ancestors came from the village of Valvori near Rome, they owned a ice cream factory.
In 2000, became partners with 'Sydney Pollack' in Mirage Enterprises.

Anthony Minghella Mini Biography

Anthony Minghella was the son of immigrants from Italy, who own an ice-cream factory on the Isle of Wight, where Anthony was born on January 6, 1954. He and his two siblings, 'Edana Minghella' and 'Dominic Minghella', grew up there, a popular British holiday spot. After graduating from the University of Hull, Minghella took a position as a university lecturer, but quit academia to focus on the theater and songwriting. He oversaw the music in many of his movies. Minghella was employed as a scriptwriter on the British TV series "Maybury" (1981) and "Inspector Morse" (1987) and, as a script editor on the British TV series "Grange Hill" (1978), before succeeding as a dramatist in the West End, London's equivalent of Broadway. In 1984, the London Theatre Critics named him Most Promising Playwright of the Year and, two years later, his drama "Made in Bangkok" won the the London Theatre Critics' award for best play. An Anthony Minghella film assured movie-goers would enjoy a film blessed with a literate script, superlative performances and first-rate production values. His great craftsmanship was apparent from the beginning, with the bittersweet 1990 comedy Truly Madly Deeply (1990), in which the ghost of 'Alan Rickman' comes back to his lady love, 'Juliet Stevenson', with unintended consequences. The theme of a ghostly love also was present in The English Patient (1996) his greatest success. It is for that film he will be best remembered. Minghella claimed that with The English Patient (1996), which won nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, that he had reached the heights of his directing career. In addition to his theater and film awards, in 2001, Anthony Minghella was appointed a Commander of the British Empire, a step just below knighthood, in the Queen's Birthday Honors List. Anthony Minghella died of a hemorrhage on the morning of March 18, 2008 at Charing Cross Hospital in London, England. The 54-year-old Minghella had undergone an operation to remove a growth on his neck the previous week. He was survived by his wife, 'Carolyn Choa', and their two children, 'Max Minghella', who is an actor, and 'Hannah Minghella', who worked as a production assistant.

Anthony Minghella Quotes

"The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic."
"When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money."
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Anthony Minghella Movies

The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009) as Himself - Nominee: Best Picture, Memorial Tribute
The Big Bonanza (0) as ...
A Fall from Grace (0) as ...
(#8.14) (0) as ...
In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met (2006) as Himself
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004) as Himself
Bucco Blanco (2009) as ...
The True Bride (1988) as ...
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008) as ...
(2006-10-27) (2006) as Himself
Varjogaalojen vastaisku (2004) as Himself
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) as ...
Grange Hill (1978) as ...
Iris (2001) as ...
Truly Madly Deeply (1990) as ...
The Luck Child (1988) as ...
The Reader (2008) as ...
(#8.2) (0) as ...
Atonement (2007) as Interviewer
(#9.17) (0) as ...