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which won the Banff TV Festival Best Series award, two PAWS awards and five BAFTAs. In 2000, he formed Firstsight Films whose first production was an account of Sir
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In 2007, Sturridge joined the board of the Directors and Producers Rights Society, which, in 2008, widened its responsibilities and changed its name to
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which opened at Dublin's Gate Theatre on the centenary of Beckett's 100th birthday, and later transferred to the Barbican. He also directed Handel's
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Audience award for Best Drama 2002, as well as being nominated for seven Primetime Emmys, winning for music and photography.
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Sturridge was born in London, England, to Alyson P. (née Burke, later Williams) and Jerome F. Sturridge. He was educated at
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which won over 17 awards including two Golden Globes and six British Academy awards. He scripted a film version of
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by his late twenties, he gained international recognition for his work on the eleven-part television adaptation of
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story which won the BAFTA for Best Children's film 1998. He wrote and directed
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Sturridge's first professional theatre production was a musical version of
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Coventry; since then, occasional theatre work includes in 1985
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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expedition, which Sturridge wrote and directed. The serial
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Since then the films Sturridge has directed have included
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to direct the story of the making of its first episode
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Sturridge began his career as an actor. He appeared in
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on 6 July 1985; they have two sons, including actor
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director and screenwriter. He is the recipient of a
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