Jim Sheridan
- Date of birth:
- 1905
- Mini Bio:
- Producer, director, writer, actor, Jim Sheridan, was a prominent figure of the New Wave of Irish film-making in the 1990s. Born in Dublin in 1949, Sheridan attended University College Dublin in 1972, the year in which he married and started a family. He studied at the Abbey School of Acting, and co-founded Dublin's Project Theatre. Moving to New York in 1981, he became Director of the Irish Arts Centre.
