Danny Boyle is a Golden Globe award-winning English director and film producer, best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and Slumdog Millionaire.
Boyle was born in Radcliffe, Lancashire into a working-class Irish Catholic family. His mother was from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, and his father was born in England, but to an Irish family. For a while, Boyle seriously contemplated priesthood and attended religious school as a teenager. Boyle was discouraged by a priest from joining the clergy, later in his life Boyle stated &qu...