Rebecca Daly
{{short description|Irish film director and screenwriter}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Rebecca Daly
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = rebecca daly 2016 1.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Daly at the 2016 Dublin International Film Festival
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1980}}
| birth_place = West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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| nationality = Irish
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| occupation = film director, screenwriter, props buyer
| years_active = 2005–present
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|alma_mater= Trinity College, Dublin
Dublin Institute of Technology
| notable_works = Mammal
}}
Rebecca Daly (born 1980) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, and actress.
Early life
Daly was born in West Sussex and grew up in an Irish family in Haywards Heath.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/may/14/cannes-rebecca-daly-the-other-side-of-sleep|title=Cannes critics praise director Rebecca Daly for The Other Side of Sleep|first1=Vanessa|last1=Thorpe|first2=arts|last2=correspondent|date=14 May 2011|via=www.theguardian.com}} They later moved to Naas, Ireland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/digging-into-private-life-of-murder-victim-187117.html|title=Digging into private life of murder victim|date=15 March 2012|website=www.irishexaminer.com}} She studied theatre studies and English literature at Trinity College Dublin and completed an MA in film at Dublin Institute of Technology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/culture/irish-director-rebecca-daly-returns-to-indiecork-with-third-feature-film-873357.html|title=Irish director Rebecca Daly returns to IndieCork with third feature film|date=4 October 2018|website=www.irishexaminer.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sdgi.ie/rebecca-daly|title=SDGI Updated | Rebecca Daly|website=Screen Directors Of Ireland Home}}
Career
Daly has written and directed three features and two shorts:
- Joyriders (2006, short)
- Hum (2010, short)
- The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
- Mammal (2016)
- Good Favour (2017){{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2884816/|title=Rebecca Daly|website=IMDb}}
She won a Dublin Film Critics' Circle award for Best Irish Director for Good Favour.{{cite web |title=Dublin Film Critics' Circle Awards - Audi Dublin International Film Festival |url=http://www.diff.ie/festival/awards/dublin-film-critics-circle |access-date=18 February 2024 |date=30 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630025137/http://www.diff.ie/festival/awards/dublin-film-critics-circle |archive-date=30 June 2018 }}
Personal life
Daly lives in Cork, Ireland. Her favourite films are Lost in Translation (2003), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) and Under the Skin (2013).{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/culture/a-question-of-taste-film-maker-rebecca-daly-904270.html|title=A question of taste: Film-maker Rebecca Daly|date=14 February 2019|website=www.irishexaminer.com}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name |2884816}}
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Category:Irish women film directors
Category:Actors from Haywards Heath
Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin