Brian Skeet is an English director,

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, producer, and

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. His work includes

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s and

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s, a lot of it touching on romance and the

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crisis.

Biography

Skeet was born on November 21, 1965, in

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. His father was a tailor and he attended high school in

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. He acted in the musical Anything Goes. At 17 years old he directed his first film - a student production of The Normal Heart. He attended university at

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, and while studying, played Max in a performance of The Homecoming. Skeet achieved a First with honors and graduated, subsequently working for the

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. He worked with Peter Sellars to direct a production of

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. After quitting his job at the BBC he made his first short film, The Boy Who Fell In Love, which he followed up by directing The Misadventures of Margaret, which was received well at the

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. He has been married to Terry Cummings since November 22, 2008, who has worked on writing several of his films.

Filmography

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