Richard Eyre
British actor and director · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Born 1943 · age 83
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre is an English film, theatre, television and opera director. Eyre has received numerous accolades including three Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for six BAFTA Awards and two Tony Awards.
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of FigaroFilm, Director2022
Remembers…Series2019
Royal Opera House: La TraviataFilm, Director2017Companion of HonourAward2016
Judi Dench: All the World's Her StageFilm2015
The DresserFilm, Director2012
The Hollow CrownSeries, Director, Writer2011Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2010
Bizet: CarmenFilm, Producer2009
10 Minute TalesSeries, Director2007
AtonementFilm, Producer2004
Stage BeautyFilm, Director, Producer2001
IrisFilm, Director, Writer1995
Richard IIIFilm, Writer1991
PerformanceSeries, Director1988
TumbledownFilm, Director1986Sunday PremiereSeries, Director
The Insurance ManFilm, 1986Director1985
Screen TwoSeries, Director1984
LaughterhouseFilm, Director1981
CountryFilm, Director1979
ComediansFilm, Director1970
Play for TodaySeries, Director, Writer1965
LondonersSeries, Derek Crichton-Ross1943Born28 March 1943People around Richard
Anthony Hopkins Richard directed King Lear and The Dresser
Judi Dench Richard directed Iris and Notes on a Scandal
Robert Fox Produced Iris and Notes on a Scandal
Ian McKellen Richard directed The Dresser (2015)
Emma Thompson Richard directed The Children Act and King Lear
Jeremy Irons Richard directed The Hollow Crown (2012)
Tom Hiddleston Richard directed The Hollow Crown (2012)
Ian McEwan Also in The Imitation Game (1980)
Jim Broadbent Richard directed Iris and King Lear
Anthony Minghella Richard produced Atonement (2008)
Emily Watson Richard directed King Lear and The Dresser
Juno Temple Richard produced Atonement (2008)
Hugh Bonneville Richard directed Iris and Stage Beauty
Edward Fox Richard directed Stage Beauty and The Dresser
Penelope Wilton Richard directed Iris (2002)
Romola Garai Richard produced Atonement (2008)
Tobias Menzies Richard produced Atonement (2007)
Harriet Walter Richard produced Atonement (2008)
Simon Russell Beale Richard directed The Hollow Crown (2012)
Bill Paterson Richard directed The Cherry Orchard (1981)
Sonia Friedman Produced The Dresser and King Lear
Colin Callender Produced The Dresser and King Lear
Jim Carter Richard directed King Lear (2018)
Paul Rhys Richard directed Tumbledown (1988)
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Atonement 2007
Notes on a Scandal 2006
Richard III 1995
The Children Act 2018
Stage Beauty 2004
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Filmography 40
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Television 8
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Eyre was the associate director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre from 1967 to 1972
Eyre was the artistic director of the National Theatre from 1987 to 1997.
Eyre directed Judi Dench in the films Iris (2001), and Notes on a Scandal (2006) for which she earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best ActressAwards
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He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1992 News Year Honours, and knighted in the 1997 New Year Honours.
