Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle is a Golden Globe award-winning English director and film producer, best known for his work in films such as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and Slumdog Millionaire.

Boyle was born in Radcliffe, Lancashire into a working-class Irish Catholic family. His mother was from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, and his father was born in England, but to an Irish family. For a while, Boyle seriously contemplated priesthood and attended religious school as a teenager. Boyle was discouraged by a priest from joining the clergy; later in his life Boyle stated "I don't know if he was trying to save me or the priesthood."

Instead, he studied at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, and at the University of Wales, Bangor. While at the university, Boyle dated actress Frances Barber.

He began his career...