Martin McDonagh is a British-Irish director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Repeated winner of numerous theater and film awards, including: Oscar, Tony, Laurence Olivier, Joseph Jefferson, Cesar, Golden Globe, British Academy, Venice Film Festival.
Martin's creative biography began at the age of sixteen, when he first began to write his works. Fame came to him in 1996. The play "The Beauty Queen of Lehlen" was staged on the theater stage in Ireland and brought the young playwright several awards at once.
Then the play was staged on Broadway. Critics named the performance as the best theatrical production, and McDonagh received the Outer Critics Award.
Movie lovers McDonagh is well known as a director of films: "Six-Shot", "Lying Down in Bruges", "Seven Psychopaths", "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".
Biography facts
The boy was born in the spring of 1970 in England. His parents were originally from Ireland. Martin's pedigree also has gypsy roots. The surname McDonagh is very common among Irish gypsies.
His family had nothing to do with creativity. My father was a builder, and my mother was a cleaner. Grandparents lived in Ireland, and the boy came to them only for the summer holidays. Martin has a brother, John Michael, who later became a writer and screenwriter.
Martin spent his school years in a Catholic school. Parents practically did not devote time to raising their sons. Later they left them in London, while they themselves left for Ireland to live with their mother's parents.
When Martin was sixteen years old, he began to receive unemployment benefits. He did not want to study further. Most of the time he spent sitting at home in front of the TV, watching films of famous directors.
Literary creativity fascinated Martin during his school years. He began to write his first stories, deciding that the profession of a writer was the best, because it only required paper, a pen and a rich imagination, which he had plenty of. His brother also wanted to become a writer and later realized his dream of becoming a screenwriter and playwright.
Creative way
Martin began composing when he was sixteen years old. Every day, the young man sat at the table for several hours and wrote plays, stories and screenplays for films. He sent the finished works to publishing houses, to radio and television, but they did not arouse interest in anyone.
Having received many refusals, Martin did not quit his literary career and was sure that sooner or later he would become a famous author.
The first success came to him in 1996. The play "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" was performed at the Irish theater. The young playwright received several awards at once: Evening Standard Award, George Devine Award, Writers Guild Award.
After staging the play on Broadway, McDonagh won several more prestigious awards, including: "Tony", Laurence Olivier, Joseph Jefferson. The play was performed with great success on the stage of many famous theaters in America and Europe. In Russia it was staged for the first time by Konstantin Raikin at the Satyricon Theater.
Further plays written by Martin were also performed with great success on the stages of many theaters around the world. He has repeatedly won prestigious awards.
In 2004, Martin entered the cinema. He not only wrote the script for his first film, but he himself became the director of the film "Six Shots". To the surprise of the author himself, the film received an Oscar in the Best Short Fiction Film category.
The next and already full-length film by McDonagh was "Lying at the Bottom of Bruges". The picture won awards: British Academy, "Georges". She was also nominated for Oscar, Golden Globe and Saturn.
In 2012, a new film by McDonagh was released - "Seven Psychopaths", which received nominations for the Saturn and British Academy awards.
In 2017, McDonagh presented his new work, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, as a screenwriter, director and producer. The film has received many awards and nominations, including: Oscar, Golden Globe, Actors Guild, British Academy, Cesar, Golden Eagle, Venice Film Festival, International Film Critics Association.
Personal life
Martin rarely gives interviews and dislikes the press. Media representatives also try to meet with the master as little as possible, because he knows how to answer journalists' questions in such a way that they do not have the desire to meet with him again.
Rumor has it that Martin had two marriages with four children. And then there are four adopted children. Currently, Martin is free, but in 2018 it was reported that he was dating actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
