FILM DIRECTOR

Stephen Daldry

1960 - Today

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Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Daldry has received more than 884,820 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Stephen Daldry is the 756th most popular film director (down from 728th in 2019), the 2,670th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,619th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Stephen Daldries by language

Over the past year Stephen Daldry has had the most page views in the with 93,072 views, followed by French (13,671), and Italian (12,005). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (653.06%), Malagasy (138.42%), and Welsh (54.40%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Stephen Daldry ranks 756 out of 2,041. Before him are Henry Selick, Andrew Marton, Mrinal Sen, Ivan Passer, Erik Balling, and Paul Scheuring. After him are Terence Fisher, Ritwik Ghatak, Roman Karmen, Vojtěch Jasný, Mark Zakharov, and Dennis Dugan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Stephen Daldry ranks 171. Before him are Oksana Zabuzhko, RuPaul, Craig Mello, Tommy Thayer, Ian Rankin, and Taneti Mamau. After him are Jenette Goldstein, Doug Jones, Isabel Coixet, Tracy Pollan, Victor Pinchuk, and Mehmed Baždarević.

Others Born in 1960

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Stephen Daldry ranks 2,670 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), David Heyman (1961), Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), and John Tavener (1944). After him are William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396), Centwine of Wessex (643), Terence Fisher (1904), Gorden Kaye (1941), John Wilkes (1725), and Nick Hornby (1957).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Stephen Daldry ranks 55. Before him are Paul Greengrass (1955), Robert Stevenson (1905), Terence Davies (1945), Richard Marquand (1937), J. Stuart Blackton (1875), and James Whale (1889). After him are Terence Fisher (1904), Laura Mulvey (1941), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), Sally Potter (1949), Edmund Goulding (1891), and Matthew Vaughn (1971).

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Filmography

Billy Elliot
Director
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
Sep 28o 20007.6 / 10
The Reader
Director
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Dec 10o 20087.457 / 10
The Crown
Director
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
8.2 / 10