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Kirsten Sheridan

Actor / Film Director / Screenwriter / Writer | * 07/14/1976 (47) | Dublin (Ireland)
Kirsten Sheridan (born 14 July 1976) is an Irish film director and screenwriter. She is best known for co-writing the semi-autobiographical film In America with her father, director Jim Sheridan, and her sister, Naomi Sheridan, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe Award for and Best Screenplay. She is also known as the director of films Disco Pigs and August Rush. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Kids & Family | Music

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Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a ...

Disco Pigs

Certification unknown

2001 | 2.9/5 | 1h 33min
Drama
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In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in ...

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

FSK: 12+ years

1989 | 3.8/5 | 1h 43min
Drama
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A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child. ...

In America

Certification unknown

2003 | 3.6/5 | 1h 45min
Drama
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Jimmy and Tommy are inseperable brothers. Tommy is older, he is autistic. He lives in a world of patterns he has created in his mind. Jimmy is a visitor to this honest world and falls into its rhythm. ...

Patterns

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1999 | 19min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Kirsten Sheridan

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Movies with Kirsten Sheridan as Actress(1)

as Sharon Brown1989 My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Movies with Kirsten Sheridan as Crew(8)

Crew/Additional Writing2013 A Thousand Times Good Night
Directing/Director2012 Dollhouse
Writing/Writer2012 Dollhouse
Directing/Director2007 August Rush
Writing/Screenplay2003 In America
Directing/Director2001 Disco Pigs
Directing/Director1999 Patterns
Writing/Writer1999 Patterns

TV Shows/Series with Kirsten Sheridan as Crew(1)

Production/Executive Producer2022 Phoenix Rising

Full Name: Kirsten Sheridan
Citizenship: Ireland
Born: Wednesday, 07/14 1976 (July) in Dublin (Ireland) (current age: 47 years + 280 days)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: English (EN), Irish (GA)
Father: Jim Sheridan
Kirsten Sheridan frequently works together with these people:
Jim Sheridan (5x, Crew)
Hugo Ekornes (5x, Crew)
Gavin Friday (3x, Actor)
Jer O'Leary (3x, Actor)
Robert Myers (3x, Cast)
Naomi Sheridan (2x, Actress)
Amy J. Berg (2x, Crew)
Maurice Seezer (2x, Crew)
Erik Poppe (2x, Crew)
Brian Hopson (2x, Cast)
Derry Power (2x, Actor)
Maureen Hughes (2x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:672199, Added: 10/29/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024