Gillian Armstrong
Born	Gillian May Armstrong 18 December 1950 (1950-12-18) (age 58) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	film director

Gillian Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries.

Contents 1 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and film-making. In 1972 she entered, and later graduated from, the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Three years later she directed two shorts films: The Singer And The Dancer and Smokes and Lollies (1975).

Her feature length film My Brilliant Career (1979), an adaptation of Miles Franklin's novel of the same name, was the first Australian feature length film to be directed by a woman for 46 years. Armstrong received six awards at the 1979 Australian Film Awards, including Best Director. Following the success of My Brilliant Career, which was nominated for an Academy Award in Best Costume Design, Armstrong directed the Australian musical Starstruck (1981).

Since then, Armstrong has specialised in period drama. She achieved her greatest Hollywood success with the 1994 adaptation of Little Women, starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon, and followed with the films Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Charlotte Gray (2001).

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Type	Notes
1970	Old Man and Dog	short
1971	Roof Needs Mowing	short
1973	Satdee Night	short	also writer
1973	One Hundred a Day	short	also writer
1973	Gretel	short	also writer
1970	Smokes and Lollies	documentary
1975	The Singer and the Dancer	short	also co-writer, producer
1979	My Brilliant Career
1980	Touch Wood	documentary
1980	Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better	documentary	also producer
1982	Starstruck
1983	Having a Go	documentary
1984	Mrs. Soffel
1986	Hard to Handle	documentary
1987	High Tide
1988	Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces	documentary
1991	Fires Within
1992	The Last Days of Chez Nous
1994	Little Women
1996	Not Fourteen Again	documentary	also writer, producer
1997	Oscar and Lucinda
2001	Charlotte Gray
2005	Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst	documentary
2008	Death Defying Acts

[edit] References

• Carter, Helen (2002). Gillian Armstrong. Retrieved December 14, 2004.

[edit] External links

• Gillian Armstrong's Agent
• Gillian Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database
• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database

Persondata
NAME	Armstrong, Gillian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Armstrong, Gillian May
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film director
DATE OF BIRTH	1950-12-18
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH