What is Mike Leigh?
[[File:Mike Leigh (Berlinale 2012) cropped.jpg|thumb|200px|{{Center|Mike Leigh on 9 February 2012}}]] '''Mike Leigh''', <small>[[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> (born 20 February 1943) is an [[English people|English]] [[screenwriter]], [[movie director]] and [[actor]]. His best known [[movie]]s are ''[[Life Is Sweet (movie)|Life Is Sweet]]'' (1990), ''[[Naked (1993 movie)|Naked]]'' (1993), ''[[Secrets & Lies (movie)|Secrets & Lies]]'' (1996), ''[[Career Girls]]'' (1997), ''[[Topsy-Turvy]]'' (1999), ''[[All or Nothing (movie)|All or Nothing]]'' (2002), and ''[[Vera Drake]]'' (2004). Leigh was born in [[Brocket Hall]], [[Welwyn]], [[Hertfordshire]]. He was bought up in [[Broughton, Salford|Broughton]], [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]]. He is [[Jewish]]. He was married to [[actress]] [[Alison Steadman]] from 1973 until they [[divorce]]d in 2001. They have two sons, Toby and Leo. Leigh lives in [[London Borough of Camden|Camden]], [[London]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/mike-leigh-9378199|title=Mike Leigh biography|publisher=[[The Biography Channel]]|accessdate=17 March 2014|archive-date=28 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528144821/http://www.biography.com/people/mike-leigh-9378199|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0005139}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leigh, Mike}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:Actors from Hertfordshire]] [[Category:Actors from Lancashire]] [[Category:English movie actors]] [[Category:English movie directors]] [[Category:English playwrights]] [[Category:English screenwriters]] [[Category:English television directors]] [[Category:English television writers]] [[Category:Jewish British actors]] [[Category:Jewish British writers]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Salford]] [[Category:Republicans]] [[Category:Writers from Hertfordshire]] [[Category:Writers from Lancashire]] {{Bio-stub}}