- Born
- Birth nameMichael Cormac Newell
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Mike Newell was born on March 28, 1942 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Donnie Brasco (1997). He is married to Bernice Stegers. They have three children.
- SpouseBernice Stegers(? - present) (3 children)
- Deep, commanding voice
- After accepting the job for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), became the first British director the film series has had.
- Daughter Lizzie (25) works for the Independent talent agency that had been ICM.
- In 2005 Mike received the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from the University of Hertfordshire in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the development of the film industry.
- Went to the same school (St. Albans School) as physicist Stephen Hawking and lyricist Sir Tim Rice.
- Can be briefly heard on Frank Bryce (Eric Sykes)'s radio in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
- [on making the fourth Harry Potter movie] "I was very anxious to break the franchise out of this goody-two-shoes feel. It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting basically."
- I don't like the term chick flick. I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best. We don't call The Last Samurai a guy flick, do we?
- Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh. I've yet to find another one which was surprising enough to do.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - $1,000,000
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