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Michael Shumway Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011.
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Michael Shumway Lee ( Mesa, Arizona, 4 de junio de 1971) es un político estadounidense. Actualmente representada al estado de Utah en el Senado de ese país. Está afiliado al Partido Republicano. Es miembro de La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días, el credo dominante en Utah.
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Leigh was born to Phyllis Pauline (née Cousin) and Alfred Abraham Leigh, a doctor. Leigh was born at Brocket Hall in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, at the time a maternity home. His mother, in her confinement, went to stay with her parents in Hertfordshire for comfort and support while her husband was serving as a captain in the Royal Army Medi...
1965–1979: Plays and television films
In 1965, Leigh went to work at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham as a resident assistant director and started to experiment with the idea that writing and rehearsing could be part of the same process. The Box Play, a family scenario staged in a cagelike box, "absorbed all sorts of contemporary ideas in art such as the space frames of Roland Pichet..it was visually very exciting," and two more "improvised" pieces followed. After the Birmingham interlude, Leigh found a flat in Euston, where...
1980–1993: Early British films
In 1983, Leigh directed the comedy-drama film Meantime, starring Gary Oldman and Tim Roth. The project was shown on Channel 4 and premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. For The Criterion Collection, Sean O'Sullivan wrote that the film was addressing "the crisis of national identity triggered by Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979". There was something of a hiatus in Leigh's career after his father died in February 1985. Leigh was in Australia at the time—having agreed to attend...
1996–2009: International recognition
In 1996, Leigh directed his fifth feature film, the drama Secrets & Lies (1996). Its ensemble cast included Leigh regulars Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The film premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Palme d'Or and the Best Actress award for Blethyn. It was a financial and critical success. Film critic Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, gave Secrets & Lies four out of four stars, writing, "moment after moment...
Leigh uses lengthy improvisations developed over several weeks to build characters and storylines for his films. He starts with some ideas of how he thinks things might develop, but does not reveal all his intentions to the cast, who gradually discover their fates and act out their responses. Initial preparation is in private with Leigh, and then t...
Leigh has cited Jean Renoir and Satyajit Ray among his favourite film makers. In a 1991 interview, he also cited Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, Yasujirō Ozu and even Jean-Luc Godard, "until the late '60s." When pressed for British influences in that interview, he referred to the Ealing comedies, "despite their unconsciously patronizing way of portraying ...
In 2012, Leigh participated in that year's Sight & Sound film polls. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films.Leigh named the following ten: Leigh participated again in the 2022 poll,selecting the following ten films:
In September 1973, Leigh married actress Alison Steadman. They have two sons. Steadman appeared in seven of his films and several of his plays, including Wholesome Glory and Abigail's Party. They divorced in 2001. Leigh then lived in central London with the actress Marion Bailey.
Leigh is an atheist and a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK. He is also a republican (anti-monarchist).In 2014, Leigh publicly backed "Hacked Off" and its campaign for UK press self-regulation by "safeguarding the press from political interference while also giving vital protection to the vulnerable." In November 2019, along with other public...
Leigh has been nominated at the Academy Awards seven times: twice each for Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake (Best Original Screenplay and Best Director) and once for Topsy-Turvy, Happy-Go-Lucky, and Another Year (Best Original Screenplay only). Leigh has also won several prizes at major European film festivals. Most notably, he won the Best Director a...
Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior and Quart, Leonard, The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World (Cambridge Film Classics, General Editor: Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, Cambridge, New York, New...Clements, Paul, The Improvised Play (London: Methuen, 1983) ISBN 0-413-50440-9(pbk.)Coveney, Michael, The World According to Mike Leigh (paperback edition, London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997, Originally Published: London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996), Includes a "Preface to...Movshovitz, Howie (ed.) Mike Leigh Interviews(Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2000)Michael Gregory Lee (born March 18, 1988) is an American musician, and guitarist, who primarily plays a Pop and contemporary Worship music style of music. He has released two extended plays, Awakening Hearts in 2014 and All I Need in 2015, both independently released.
Michael Shumway "Mike" Lee (born June 4, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer who is the senior United States Senator from Utah. A member of the Republican Party , Lee has served in the U.S. Senate since January 3, 2011.
1 de jun. de 2024 · Mike Lee (born June 4, 1971, Mesa, Arizona, U.S.) is an American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2010 and began representing Utah in that body the following year.
Michael Gene Lee (born June 17, 1987) is an American professional boxer. He turned pro in February 2010. Background. Lee is a 2005 graduate of Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois where he was all conference linebacker in the Catholic League.
