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In 1989, Stephen Daldry worked as a freelance reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Literary Manager Nicholas Wright in the Scripts Department at the Royal National Theatre. In July of that year, he directed a Dadaist/expressionist production of "Judgement Day," a play by Odon von Horvath, at the Old Red Lion in London.
Ranked #92 in Premieres 2003 annual Power 100 List. It is his first appearance on the list.
Unofficially adopted aspiring actor Jamie Bell whilst shooting Billy Elliot .
His wife Lucy gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Annabel Clare. The baby was born in May 2003.
He was awarded the CBE in the 2004 New Years Honours List for his services to Drama.
He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Director of a Play for Machinal at the Royal National Theatre.
He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1993 (1992 season) for Best Director for a Play for An Inspector Calls at the Royal National Theatre.
He was awarded the 1992 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for An Inspector Calls.
He was awarded the 1992 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Director for An Inspector Calls.
Won Broadways 1994 Tony Award as Best Director (Play) for "An Inspector Calls."
Has directed 6 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Julie Walters , Nicole Kidman , Ed Harris , Julianne Moore , Kate Winslet , and Max von Sydow. Kidman and Winslet both won Oscars for performances in one of his movies.
Graduated from the University of Sheffield and completed an apprenticeship at the citys Crucible Theatre.
Received an Oscar-nomination as Best Director for his first three movies: Billy Elliot , The Hours and The Reader . He is the first (and as of 2009, the only) person ever to accomplish this.
He was awarded the 2009 Tony Award for Director of a Musical for "Billy Elliott" on Broadway in New York City.
Won Broadways 2009 Tony Award as Best Director for "Billy Elliot".
Was in a relationship with Ian MacNeil for 13 years. They met in 1988 at an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland directed by their mutual friend Ian Forest.
(May 2009) Mayfair, London, England
He was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Direction for "An Inspector Calls," in the Royal National Theatre production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work. .
