Martin McDonagh

LOS ANGELES – FEB 03: Martin McDonagh arrives for the 2018 Director Guild Awards on February 3, 2018 in Beverly Hills, CA DFree

Birth Name: Martin Faranan McDonagh

Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 26 March, 1970

Ethnicity: Irish

Martin McDonagh is a British-Irish playwright, writer, director, and producer. He has written and directed the films In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and The Banshees of Inisherin.

He was born in London, to Irish parents, his father from Leitir Mealláin, Connemara, County Galway, and his mother from Killeenduff, Easky, County Sligo. His brother is writer and director John Michael McDonagh. His parents returned to Ireland when he was 22. He has both Irish and U.K. citizenship.

Martin’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Harte.