- Sharon Maguire
Sharon Maguire (born 1960) made her name as a film director when she landed the job of directing "Bridget Jones's Diary". The film was based on the book by her close friend
Helen Fielding , and one of the main characters - Shazzer - is actually based on Maguire. Sharon Maguire studied English and Drama at theUniversity of Wales Aberystwyth from 1979-1983 and graduated with a 2:2 degree before going on to do the PGCE teaching qualification. After leaving Aberystwyth, she did a year's postgraduate course in journalism at City University inLondon and worked as a researcher then a director on "The Media Show". In 1991, she got a job with theBBC as producer/director of The Late Show. She also made several documentaries - including Omnibus - before leaving the Corporation to make advertisements. "Bridget Jones' Diary" marked Maguire's directorial debut. She's quoted as saying: "It always breaks the ice at parties when I'm with Oxbridge types and I brag: 'I went to Aberystwyth!'"Other projects in development for Maguire include "Mail" with
Film Four , "The Vicious Circle" with Oxford Films, and "Mother's Boy", for which she has also been commissioned to write a script forBBC Films . [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20070622112557/http://www.city.ac.uk/alumni/about/who/Sharon+Maguire.html City University's Alumni page on Sharon Maguire] ] The film "Incendiary", which was written and will be directed by Maguire, is also currently in production.Filmography
*"The Thing is... Babies" (1991)
*"The Thing is... Hotels" (1991)
*"The Godfather" (1993)
*"In at Number Ten" (1994)
*"Yo Picasso" (1994)
*"" (1995)
*"" (1996)
*"" (1996)
*"Dame Henrietta's Dream" (1997)
*"Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001)
*"Incendiary" (2008)References
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*imdb name|name=Sharon Maguire|id=0536632
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