Nick Willing
, b. 1961
British film and television writer and director. Born in London to an English father (artist Victor Willing) and a Portuguese mother (artist painter Paula Rego), Willing spent most of his childhood until age 12 in Portugal before moving to London, where he later attended The National Film and Television School graduating at the age of 21. He began his cinematographic work producing music videos and writing scripts. He is currently best known for his 2017 BBC documentary about his mother (Paula Rego, Secrets & Stories), several feature films (Photographing Fairies 1997, Alice in Wonderland 1999, Doctor Sleep 2002, The River King 2004, Altar 2014), and a number of TV mini-series and series, among them two inspired by Greek mythology, Jason and the Argonauts 2000 and Olympus 2015, both featured in OMC Survey.
Official website (accessed: May 29, 2018).
Bio prepared by Elżbieta Olechowska, University of Warsaw, elzbieta.olechowska@gmail.com
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