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Luke Davies. Biography. Luke is a Welsh speaking actor and presenter with experience in television, audio and live events with the likes of ITV, BBC Wales and S4C. Luke played one of the main cast members on S4C’s ‘Chwarter Call’, Liam on S4C’s ‘Mae Llefydd Gwaeth i Farw’ as well as various characters for the digital comedy platform ...
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LUKE DAVIES. Biography. Luke is a Welsh speaking presenter and actor with experience in television, audio and live events with the BBC, ITV and S4C. As one of Wales Online’s ’ 13 showbiz ones to watch in 2024’, Luke recently finished filming for the new S4C crime drama ‘The One That Got Away/Cleddau’, can currently be seen in the ...
May 9, 2017 · LUKE DAVIES: The miscarriages were like an excuse to be...be filled with resentful despair about life and the universe and continue on as junkies. EXCERPT FROM CANDY (2006) Candy’s mother: Funny ...
8 Photos. Luke Davies is a poet, novelist and screenwriter, known for Lion (2016), Candy (2006) and Life (2015). His books have won many awards, including the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry for his volume Interferon Psalms, and the Age Book of the Year prize for his volume Totem. He co-wrote the screenplay adaptation of ...
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- Writer, Producer, Actor
- Davies A Big Fish in A Small Pond
- The Long Road to Lion Success
- Dev Patel Desperate to Bring Davies' 'Delicate' Words to Life
- Davies' Redemption After Drugs
The following decade established Davies as a significant literary voice in Australia. He published several volumes of poetry, Candy became a best-seller and he won an AFI award in 2006 for his script for the movie adaptation. He was a big fish in a small pond but that was about to change dramatically. Licking his wounds from a relationship breakup,...
But Davies' luck began to change. In 2012 he won the Prime Minister's Literary Prize for Poetry. The $80,000 prize money allowed him to clear his debts. Slowly, small jobs led to better jobs. He wrote the script for the movie Life, which did not set the world on fire but got him noticed. Then came Lion. "That was a kind of explosion in my life," Da...
Meanwhile, actor Dev Patel had heard of Brierley's story and told his agent that if a film was being made, he wanted to be in it. When he discovered the script was being developed, he turned up on Davies' doorstep to plead for the role. "Dev Patel runs into the loungeroom and it was just a weird moment," Davis said. "We hadn't even finished the scr...
Davies has certainly been busy. His latest script, Beautiful Boy, is in production with Brad Pitt's company Plan B and he is developing a TV version of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 with Australian director David Michod. And now there is his adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel News of the World, which is set in 1870 and will star Tom Hanks as an itin...
Nov 19, 2018 · Watch our exclusive video interview with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Luke Davies about using his own experiences for 'Beautiful Boy.'
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Jan 28, 2017 · For Luke Davies, life has been exceptional lately. An Academy Award nomination for writing the hit Australian film Lion this week.
