Career
In 1985, Walsh wrote and directed her first short film, Hostage. [7] Her feature film directorial debut was Joyriders (1989). She then transitioned into television work throughout the 1990s, [8] including episodes of The Bill (1991–1994), Doctor Finlay (1993), Roughnecks (1995), and Trial & Retribution (1997–2002). [8] [9]
In 2003, she wrote and directed her second feature film, Song for a Raggy Boy , which won multiple awards at international film festivals, [10] including Best Film at the Copenhagen International Film Festival. [11] Her third feature, The Daisy Chain, a horror-thriller film, was released in 2008. [12]
Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, Walsh also continued working in television, directing series and television films such as the BAFTA TV Award-nominated Fingersmith (2005); the BBC One film Sinners (2007); [13] The Fifth Woman, a feature-length episode of the BBC series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh (2010); and Room at the Top (2012), which earned her a BAFTA TV Award in 2013 for Best Mini-Series. [2]
In 2014, she directed A Poet in New York , exploring how Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at the age of 39. [14] The film marked the centenary of Thomas' birth on 27 October 1914. [15]
Her fourth feature film, the biographical film Maudie (2016) about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, [16] premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. [17] As someone who studied painting herself, [8] Walsh was drawn to the simplicity and beauty in Lewis's work. [18] The film received positive reviews from critics. [19] The Japan Times called it "an unabashedly intimate portrait of a remarkable woman". [20] It was a New York Times Critic's Pick; in her review, Manohla Dargis criticized the film's tone and score, but commended the performances and direction. [21]
For her work on Maudie, Walsh won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Director; the film won a total of seven awards at the 6th annual ceremony in 2018. [22] Walsh also won the award for Best Director at the 15th annual Irish Film and Television Awards in 2018. [23]
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