Niall leonard born

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Niall Leonard grew up in Newry, Northern Ireland.

He attended the University of York to study English, and from there went on to The UK National Film and Television School where he trained as a screenwriter and director.

After graduating from the NFTS in 1986 Niall’s worked as director on ITV’s long-running cop show The Bill while pursuing his own projects, such as the one-off black comedy Rotten Apples and Over The Wild Frontier, a six-part comedy drama set on the Irish border, both for Channel Four.

Niall’s first broadcast TV script was an episode of cop show Spender, closely followed by Pie In The Sky with Richard Griffiths.

In 1994 Niall took up a year-long contract as a Script Editor at BBC N