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Stephen Poliakoff, CBE, FRSL (born 1 December 1952) is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter, best known for his work as a television dramatist. ==Early life and career== Poliakoff was born in the Holland Park district in west London to Anglo Jewish and Russian Jewish parents, Ina (née Montagu), and Russian born Alexander Poliakoff.〔(screenonline: Poliakoff, Stephen (1952–) Biography )〕〔(Stephen Poliakoff )〕 The second of four children, he was sent at a young age to boarding school, which he hated. He then proceeded to Westminster School where he attracted sufficient attention for ''Granny'', a play written and directed by him, to be reviewed in ''The Times'' newspaper. After Westminster, he went to King's College, Cambridge but never took a degree.〔Article in ''Saga'' magazine, December 2009〕 Poliakoff continued to write stage plays, becoming writer-in-residence for the National Theatre at the age of 24, but he became increasingly interested in the medium of television, with ''Stronger Than the Sun'' (1977 – BBC1 ''Play for Today''), ''Bloody Kids'' (1980 – ATV), ''Caught on a Train'' (1980 – BBC2 ''Playhouse'') starring Peggy Ashcroft, and ''Soft Targets'' (1982 – ''Play for Today''). There were also TV adaptations of his stage plays ''Hitting Town'' (1976 – Thames Television/ITV ''Play for Britain'') and ''City Sugar'' (1978 – Scottish Television / ITV ''The Sunday Drama''). Poliakoff's first feature film was ''Runners'', directed by Charles Sturridge, starring James Fox, Jane Asher and Kate Hardie. It received a limited theatrical release in 1983 before being shown in Channel 4's Film on Four slot. His directorial debut was the much-lauded and now rare ''Hidden City'' (1988), premiered at the Venice Film Festival and starring Charles Dance, Richard E. Grant and Cassie Stuart. His television career continued with ''She's Been Away'' (1989) starring Peggy Ashcroft and also winning awards at Venice, before a return to film with ''Close My Eyes'' (1991), starring Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves and Alan Rickman in an elaborate reworking of the incest theme that had been central to ''Hitting Town'', followed by ''Century'' (1993), with Owen, Dance and Miranda Richardson. Less successful were ''Food of Love'' (1997) with Grant, Nathalie Baye and Joe McGann and ''The Tribe'' (1998) starring Joely Richardson and Jeremy Northam, the latter eventually screened on BBC2 in the absence of a cinema distribution deal. He subsequently returned to his favoured form, television, this time choosing a flexible serial format resulting in the acclaimed and Prix Italia〔http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Prix_Italia/1999〕-winning ''Shooting the Past'' (1999), the fresh critical and audience success of ''Perfect Strangers'' (2001), a family drama starring Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Gambon and Lindsay Duncan and ''The Lost Prince'' (2003), a single drama recognized with an Emmy award rare for a non-American production. The film also featured Miranda Richardson in a Golden Globe nominated performance as Queen Mary of Teck. Michael Gambon, Gina McKee, Tom Hollander and Bill Nighy appeared in major roles. Late 2005 saw the one-off drama ''Friends and Crocodiles'' starring Damian Lewis and Jodhi May, with its overlapping companion piece, ''Gideon's Daughter'', starring Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson and Emily Blunt, appearing early the following year. The latter won a Peabody Award in April 2007, with Golden Globes for Nighy and Blunt. In 2005, he renewed recent criticisms of BBC scheduling and commissioning policy, arguing that the reintroduction of a regular evening slot for one-off plays on BBC1 would provide the re-invigoration of drama output that has become a priority for the corporation. ''Joe's Palace'' was screened on 4 November 2007 on BBC One and ''Capturing Mary'' was screened on BBC Two on 12 November 2007. ''The Culture Show'' also screened a Poliakoff special, including an interview between Poliakoff and Mark Kermode and a new TV play, ''A Real Summer'', on 10 November.〔(BBC )〕 ''Glorious 39'', starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy and Julie Christie, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009 and was released in the UK that November. In 2011, Poliakoff wrote a seven-minute short film, ''Astonish Me'', to celebrate WWF's 50th anniversary. Starring Bill Nighy and Gemma Arterton, the film was shown in Odeon Cinemas in August 2011 and made available on the WWF website and YouTube.〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/competition/2011/jul/18/wwf-stephen-poliakoff-film-competition〕 Later in the 2010s, ''Dancing on the Edge'', a five-part series which followed the fortunes of a black jazz band in 1930s London, was broadcast by the BBC in February 2013. A new work by the director, with the title ''Close to the Enemy'', and set in a bombed-out London in the aftermath of the Second World War, is set to be broadcast by the BBC at the beginning of 2016. 〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Poliakoff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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