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Mike Figgis
Director, producer, actor, composer, scriptwriter and author. He was born in 1948 in Carlisle, Great Britain. Before launching his film career he used to be a musician in Brain Ferry's band Gas Board and an actor in a theatre group called People Show. His musical and stage experience, as well as film interests, were later channeled in a play Slow Fade. In 1984 he made The House, but his proper feature film debut is said to be Stormy Monday (1988). He received great praise for his 1995 auteur melodrama Leaving Las Vegas starring Nicholas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. The film received a few Academy Awards nominations including best director.
He’s successful when it comes to both: pure entertainment movies (Mr. Jones, Internal Affiairs) and more artistic ones (Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode), where he often combines together the function of a director, a scriptwriter and a composer.
He’s successful when it comes to both: pure entertainment movies (Mr. Jones, Internal Affiairs) and more artistic ones (Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode), where he often combines together the function of a director, a scriptwriter and a composer.
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