Jimmy McGovern
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Raised in Liverpool's working-class neighborhoods and educated at St. Francis Xavier's College, McGovern entered television through Channel 4's soap Brookside in the early 1980s, where he began addressing social issues such as unemployment. He later devised the crime drama Cracker, a critical and popular hit that earned two Edgar Awards, and followed it with realist series like The Lakes and the a…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources