Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella is a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was born on January 6, 1954 on the Isle of Wight to Italian/British parents. He won an Academy Award for his work as a director in The English Patient. During the 1980s he worked in television, script editing the children's drama series Grange Hill for the BBC and later writing The Storyteller series for Jim Henson and episodes of the popular ITV detective drama Inspector Morse.

Selected filmography

• Living with Dinosaurs (1989) (TV) (writer)
• Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)
• Mr Wonderful (1993)
• The English Patient (1996)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• Cold Mountain (2003)