Martin McDonagh

Martin Faranan McDonagh (; born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director. Born and brought up in London, he is the son of Irish parents. He started his career in the Royal National Theatre with The Pillowman in 2003. He has since written many plays produced on the West End and on Broadway including The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996), The Cripple of Inishmaan (1996), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001), A Behanding in Spokane (2010), and Hangmen (2015). He has received four Tony Award nominations, and five Laurence Olivier Award nominations, the latter of which he received three awards for The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pillowman, and Hangmen. A winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Six Shooter (2004) McDonagh has been nominated for three other Academy Awards. He directed the dark comedy films In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), the latter of which won three BAFTA Awards from four nominations and two Golden Globe Awards from three nominations for his film.