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Mike Newell

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Mike Newell
  • Birth Name: Michael Cormac Newell
  • Birth Place: St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 03/28/1942, Aries
  • Profession: Director; executive producer
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Mike Newell Fast Facts:
  • His parents were amateur actors.
  • Directed student productions at Cambridge.
  • Spent three years in the mid-1960s in production training at Britain's Granada Television; early directing credits include episodes of Granada's long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (1976), his first film to be released theatrically in Britain, was made for U.S. television.
  • Won a British Academy Award for directing Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), which was also honored by the French and Australian film institutes.
  • Mike Newell Relationships:
  • Bernice Stegers - Wife
  • Billy Newell - Son
  • Lizzie Newell - Daughter
  • College:
  • University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England (Degree in English, 1963)
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