Rebecca Daly

{{short description|Irish film director and screenwriter}}

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| name = Rebecca Daly

| honorific_suffix = MA

| image = rebecca daly 2016 1.jpg

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| caption = Daly at the 2016 Dublin International Film Festival

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| 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

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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}}

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