Michael Cooney (screenwriter)
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Michael Cooney (born 1967) is a British
screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
, playwright, and director. Cooney also has written children's literature and young adult fiction. His most notable films are ''Identity'' (2003), '' The I Inside'' (2004) and ''
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'' (2010). His father is the actor and playwright
Ray Cooney Raymond George Alfred Cooney Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and director. His biggest success, ''Run for Your Wife (play), Run for Your Wife'' (1983), ran for nine years in London's West E ...
.


Personal life

Cooney and the actress
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married on May 4, 2016. He has one daughter with her, born in 2016, and two children from a previous marriage. He lives in Los Angeles.


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* 1967 births Living people English film directors English male screenwriters British male writers 20th-century British dramatists and playwrights 21st-century British dramatists and playwrights Writers from London {{UK-screenwriter-stub