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Tony Gilroy
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Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Adaptation
Biography:Screenwriter Tony Gilroy debuted as a scribe on a lucrative but uncharacteristic note -- lucrative because the 1992 sports-themed romantic comedy The Cutting Edge (which Gilroy scripted) grossed a respectable 25 million dollars at the domestic box office; uncharacteristic because that film in no way presaged the genres in which Gilroy came to specialize. Time and again, over the following decades, Gilroy churned out scripts for intense variants on the thriller formula -- outings that exhibited a propensity for not only high-ratcheted suspense but literate subtexts and polished dialogue. These included the incest-themed Stephen King melodrama Dolores Claiborne (1995), the medical ethos-tinged suspenser Extreme Measures (1996), and the supernaturally charged, darkly comic thriller The Devil's Advocate (1997). Gilroy's activity surged after the turn of the millennium, when producers tapped him to script... Full Biography
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Writer-director Tony Gilroy, left, and George Clooney on the set of in "Michael Clayton" (Warner...
Director Tony Gilroy arrives at the 2008 AFI Luncheon held at the Four Seasons Hotel on January 11,...
Director Tony Gilroy arrives at the 2008 AFI Luncheon held at the Four Seasons Hotel on January 11,...
Director Tony Gilroy arrives at the 2008 AFI Luncheon held at the Four Seasons Hotel on January 11,...
Director Tony Gilroy arrives at the 2008 AFI Luncheon held at the Four Seasons Hotel on January 11,...
Director Tony Gilroy arrives at the 2008 AFI Luncheon held at the Four Seasons Hotel on January 11,...
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