Brian Gilbert
Brian Gilbert (born 1949) is a British film director best known for the biographical features Tom & Viv (1994) and Wilde (1997). Born in London and raised partly in Sydney, where he began as a child actor, he won an Open Scholarship to read English Literature at Oxford and directed plays there before joining the National Film and Television School. His graduation short The Devotee attracted David Puttnam, who commissioned his first feature, Sharma and Beyond, for Channel Four. His subsequent features include the body-swap comedy Vice Versa (1988), the controversial Not Without My Daughter (1991) starring Sally Field, Tom & Viv (a portrait of the marriage of T.S. Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood with Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson, twice Oscar-nominated), and Wilde, the Richard Ellmann-based biography starring Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde alongside Jude Law.