Michael Hirst
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Emerging from Bradford in West Yorkshire, he earned a first-class joint honours degree in English and American literature at Nottingham, followed by study of Henry James at Oxford, before turning to screenwriting after a short story attracted the attention of director Nicolas Roeg. His breakthrough came with the historical drama Elizabeth (1998) and its sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007),…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources