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Lee Hall


Born
in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, The United Kingdom
September 20, 1966

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Art, Fiction


Lee Hall (born 20 September 1966) is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2000 film Billy Elliot.

Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, in 1966, the son of a house painter and decorator and a housewife. He was educated at Benfield School in Walkergate. As a youth he went to Wallsend Young People's Theatre along with Deka Walmsley and Trevor Fox who later appeared in both Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters. He went to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature and was taught by the poet Paul Muldoon.[1] After leaving Cambridge, he worked as a youth theatre fundraiser in Newcastle and at the Gate Theatre in London. In 1997, his playwriting career was launched with the broadcas ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 1,210 ratings · 147 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors
Billy Elliot
3.79 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Shakespeare in Love
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The Pitmen Painters
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Spoonface Steinberg
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Victoria & Abdul
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Our Ladies of Perpetual Suc...
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Cooking With Elvis' & 'Boll...
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Plays 1: Cooking With Elvis...
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