Jim Sheridan

Q: Has Jim Sheridan won any awards?

Jim Sheridan has received numerous accolades, including five Academy Award nominations. He has also won several Irish Film and Television Awards for his contributions to cinema.

Q: What was Jim Sheridan's first film?

Jim Sheridan's first feature film was 'My Left Foot', released in 1989. It was based on the life of Christy Brown, a writer and painter born with cerebral palsy.

Q: Is Jim Sheridan involved in any recent projects?

As of 2023, Jim Sheridan is involved in various projects, including film and television productions that continue to explore themes of identity and social justice.

Q: What is Jim Sheridan's directing style?

Jim Sheridan's directing style is characterized by an emphasis on character development and emotional depth. He often tells stories rooted in personal and historical contexts.

Q: How did Jim Sheridan start his career?

Jim Sheridan began his career in theater before transitioning to film. His background in stage productions greatly influenced his approach to filmmaking.

Q: What is Jim Sheridan's estimated net worth?

Jim Sheridan's estimated net worth is approximately 5 million USD, reflecting his successful career in film and television.

Q: What themes are common in Jim Sheridan's films?

Common themes in Jim Sheridan's films include family, identity, and social justice. He often draws from his Irish background to tell powerful stories.

Known for

Brothers (2015)

IMDb 6.4 / 10

2015 / Action, Adventure / 155mins

A nigerian living in Germany visits his brother in Nigeria and disappears.

Name

Jim Sheridan

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

6 February 1949, Dublin, Ireland

Spouses

Kathy Sheridan (1979–present)

Children

3 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Patrick Sheridan, Maureen Sheridan

Estimated Net Worth

5 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Guggi An intimate portrait of abstract painter Guggi that traces his journey from humble Irish beginnings—with friends Bono and Gavin Friday—through...	Self	Not rated
2025	Movie Re-Creation In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996...	Juror 1	Not rated
2025	Movie Juliet & Romeo Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, our most famous star-crossed lovers turn the tides on the history...	The Irishman	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	Movie The Ghost of Richard Harris A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the most remarkable...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	TV Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie A five part Sky Original documentary series that will look into the unsolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier who...	Self. Presenter. Storyteller. Filmmaker	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2014	Movie Brendan Behan: The Roaring Boy Actor Adrian Dunbar has played Brendan Behan on the stage many times, and now sets out on a journey to...	Himself	Not rated
2012	Movie Hannah Cohen's Holy Communion A spirited 7-year-old, growing up in Dublin in the 1970's, can't wait to make her Catholic Holy Communion. The only...	Father O'Brien	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	Movie John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2011	Movie Muide Éire Muide Eire / We are Ireland documents the history of Ireland on screen. From the horse drawn carriages of Dublin's...	Self	Not rated
2006	Movie What If? Two struggling stuntmen decide to write their own script.	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2004	Movie The Bridge of San Luis Rey In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Spanish Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the...	The King of Spain	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2004	Movie The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife A carpenter repairs what he believes to be his wife's inadequacies.	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1998	Movie The General The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with...	CPAD Leader	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1997	Movie This Is the Sea The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance...	Station Master	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1996	Movie Moll Flanders The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her...	le prêtre	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1994	Movie Words Upon the Window Pane In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume...	Jonathan Swift / Dean Swift	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1979	Movie Mobile Homes Shea, a young artist, is fighting for habitants of a trailer parking to have access to essential public commodities.	Shea	Not rated
1967	TV Omnibus Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
TBA	Movie Shelter me: Apollo House	self	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie Re-Creation In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2025	Movie Re-Creation In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996...	Director Directing	Not rated
2025	Movie Re-Creation In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2025	Movie The Ghost Amid the barren landscape of post-famine Ireland, a father and daughter struggle to survive the brutal winter as caretakers of...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2025	TV Lockerbie: A Search for Truth Dr Jim Swire tragically loses his daughter when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over a small town on 21 December...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2025	Movie One Last Show in Taghmon In 1982, in a small rural village, the stuntmen, down on their luck and having never made it into the...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2024	Movie St Pancras Sunrise A young Irish musician arrives in London in 1982 full of optimism and the desire to realise her dreams as...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2022	Movie Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2021	Movie The Letters Set against the backdrop of the Cervical Check scandal that rocks Ireland "THE LETTERS" tells the story of three women...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 9.3 / 10
2021	TV Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie A five part Sky Original documentary series that will look into the unsolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier who...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	TV Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie A five part Sky Original documentary series that will look into the unsolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier who...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	TV L'énigme : L'affaire Toscan du Plantier	Director Directing	Not rated
2021	TV L'énigme : L'affaire Toscan du Plantier	Creator Creator	Not rated
2017	Movie 11th Hour Based on a true story, 11th Hour recounts how, on the evening of 9/11, Maria Jose's bar is heaving with...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie 11th Hour Based on a true story, 11th Hour recounts how, on the evening of 9/11, Maria Jose's bar is heaving with...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie The Secret Scripture The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2017	Movie The Secret Scripture The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2017	Movie The Secret Scripture The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2012	Movie Dollhouse Five street teens break into a house in a rich Dublin suburb for a night of partying. But games are...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2011	Movie Dream House Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2009	Movie Brothers When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2005	Movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2005	Movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.	Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2003	Movie In America A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	Movie In America A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	Movie In America A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2002	Movie Bloody Sunday The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2001	Movie On the Edge A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2001	Movie Borstal Boy Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1999	Movie Agnes Browne Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1997	Movie The Boxer Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1997	Movie The Boxer Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1997	Movie The Boxer Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1996	Movie Some Mother's Son Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1996	Movie Some Mother's Son Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1993	Movie In the Name of the Father A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1993	Movie In the Name of the Father A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1993	Movie In the Name of the Father A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1992	Movie Into the West Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1990	Movie The Field "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1990	Movie The Field "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1989	Movie My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1989	Movie My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1979	Movie Mobile Homes Shea, a young artist, is fighting for habitants of a trailer parking to have access to essential public commodities.	Writer Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie King of the Wind The story of the 18th century Arabian colt that would go on to sire the modern thoroughbred bloodline, tracing the...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie King of the Wind The story of the 18th century Arabian colt that would go on to sire the modern thoroughbred bloodline, tracing the...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie I Am a Man A depiction of the Ponca’s “Trail of Tears” march that led to the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear vs....	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie I Am a Man A depiction of the Ponca’s “Trail of Tears” march that led to the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear vs....	Producer Production	Not rated
TBA	Movie I Am a Man A depiction of the Ponca’s “Trail of Tears” march that led to the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear vs....	Writer Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Into Africa and Out A father and his teenage daughter wind their way from from Ireland to Morocco with many pets in tow.	Writer Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Into Africa and Out A father and his teenage daughter wind their way from from Ireland to Morocco with many pets in tow.	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Hiba When young Hiba's sister runs away with a boy of a lower class, her family struggles to come to terms...	Director Directing	Not rated

Guggi

2026

Re-Creation

2025

Juliet & Romeo

2025 / TMDB 6.1

The Ghost of Richard Harris

2022 / TMDB 7.5

Brendan Behan: The Roaring Boy

2014

Hannah Cohen's Holy Communion

2012 / TMDB 5.0

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Got a question about Jim Sheridan?

What are some of Jim Sheridan's most famous films?

Jim Sheridan is known for 'My Left Foot', 'In the Name of the Father', and 'The Boxer'. These films highlight his unique storytelling style and have received critical acclaim.

Has Jim Sheridan won any awards?

What was Jim Sheridan's first film?

Is Jim Sheridan involved in any recent projects?

What is Jim Sheridan's directing style?

How did Jim Sheridan start his career?

What is Jim Sheridan's estimated net worth?

What themes are common in Jim Sheridan's films?

Known for

Brothers (2015)

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