Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is a retired British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between work for the theatre and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterized by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style. His well-known films include Life is Sweet (1990), the comedy-drama Career Girls (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy Turvy (1999), and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are arguably Naked (1993) for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the BAFTA-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Palme d'Or winner Secrets & Lies (1996) and Golden Lion winner Vera Drake (2004).
His films and stage plays, according to the critic Michael Coveney, "comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period." Coveney further noted Leigh's role in helping to create stars – Liz Smith in Hard Labour, Alison Steadman in Abigail's Party, Brenda Blethyn in Grown-Ups, Antony Sher in Goose-Pimples, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in Meantime, Jane Horrocks in Life is Sweet, David Thewlis in Naked – and remarked that the list of actors who have worked with him over the years – including Sheila Kelley, Paul Jesson, Phil Daniels, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Sharp, Kathy Burke, Stephen Rea, Eric Richard, Julie Walters – "comprises an impressive, almost representative, nucleus of outstanding British acting talent." Ian Buruma, writing in the New York Review of Books in January 1994, noted: "It is hard to get on a London bus or listen to the people at the next table in a cafeteria without thinking of Mike Leigh. Like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leigh's London is as distinctive as Fellini's Rome or Ozu's Tokyo."
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Fotos
Filmes (60)
Tender Loving Care
2026 · Director, Writer
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2025 · Self
Citizen B
2025 · Self
Verdades Difíceis
2024 · Director, Writer
Her Name Was Moviola
2024 · Self
Cannes Uncut
2023 · Self
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021 · Self
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020 · Self – Filmmaker
Peterloo
2018 · Director, Writer
Scenes from A Separation
2018 · Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016 · Self
The Pirates of Penzance
2015 · Production Director
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014 · Self
Mr. Turner
2014 · Director, Writer
What Is Cinema?
2013 · Self
A Running Jump
2012 · Director, Writer
Another Year
2010 · Writer, Director
Vittorio D.
2009 · Self
The Party
2009 · Writer
Looking for Truffaut
2009 · Self
Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 · Director, Writer
All About 'Abigail's Party'
2007 · Self
Vera Drake
2004 · Director, Writer
Cinema16: British Short Films
2003 · Self - Commentary, The Short & Curlies (voice), Director
All or Nothing
2002 · Writer, Director
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh: The Conversation
2000 · Self - Interviewee
Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Writer, Director
Inside the Golden Statue
1998 · Self
Career Girls
1997 · Writer, Director
Secrets & Lies
1996 · Director, Writer
Naked
1993 · Director, Writer
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993 · Director
A Sense of History
1992 · Director
Life Is Sweet
1991 · Writer, Director
High Hopes
1989 · Director, Writer
The Short & Curlies
1987 · Director, Writer
Four Days in July
1984 · Director, Writer
Meantime
1983 · Writer, Director
Afternoon
1982 · Director, Writer
A Light Snack
1982 · Director, Writer
Probation
1982 · Director, Writer
Old Chums
1982 · Director, Writer
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
1982 · Director, Writer
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982 · Self
Home Sweet Home
1982 · Director, Writer
Grown-Ups
1980 · Director, Writer
Who's Who
1979 · Director, Writer
Abigail's Party
1977 · Director, Writer
The Kiss of Death
1977 · Director, Writer
Shuttlecock
1976 · Title Designer
Fast Hands
1976 · Title Designer
Nuts in May
1976 · Director, Writer
The Permissive Society
1975 · Director, Writer
Hard Labour
1973 · Director, Writer
A Mug's Game?
1973 · Writer, Director
Bleak Moments
1972 · Director, Writer
West 11
1963
Two Left Feet
1963 · Jim (uncredited)
Untitled 13
Séries (19)
Remembers…
2022 · Self
Reel Britannia
2022 · Self
Square
2012 · Self
In Confidence
2010
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Self
British Film Forever
2007
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest, Self
Le Cercle
2005
The Culture Show
2004 · Self
Naked
1993 · Creator
Five-Minute Films
1982 · Director, Writer, Creator
The South Bank Show
1978
Playhouse
1974 · Director, Writer
Second City Firsts
1973 · Director, Writer
Film '72
1971 · Self
Play for Today
1970 · Director, Writer
Omnibus
1967 · Self
Maigret
1960
The Oscars
1953 · Self