After his career as a filmmaker as a filmmaker, Michell established himself in the 1990s, when he drew attention to himself, for example, with the successful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Anna Elliot (Persuasion), for which he won the Bafta Award.
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In 1999, he was a huge success with Notting Hill, the romantic story of a London bookseller who falls in love with an American Hollywood star who became one of the most lucrative films in the history of British cinema.
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It is romantic comedies that predominate in Michell’s filmography. In 2004, he made an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel Indestructible Love, followed by Venus (2006), Nice Getting Up (2010) and My Cousin Rachel (2017).
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Michell was born in 1956 into the family of a British diplomat in South Africa. As a child, he lived in Beirut, Damascus and Prague. He graduated from the University of Cambridge.
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