Mike Leigh CAREER GIRLS The director Born in 1943 in Salford, in Lancashire, Mike Leigh started off working in experimental theater. As a director for the BBC, he made a name for himself by creating new acting methods - for example, asking his actors to improvise their interpretation of scripts given to them orally. Leigh had developed this method earlier on the set of his first feature film, ...

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