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Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the drug and gang-related crime drama television series Top Boy. His other writing credits include the 1997 crime film Face, the 2009 Michael Mann crime biopic Public Enemies and the ...
Apr 15, 2024 · The creator of Top Boy, a critically acclaimed series about the lives and crimes of young Black men in London, reflects on his personal and artistic journey. He shares how his own experience of imprisonment and interrogation influenced his writing, and how he coped with the media attention and the murder investigation.
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Aug 31, 2019 · Ronan Bennett and script consultant Gerry Jackson in Ridley Road Market, Dalston, one of Top Boy’s shooting locations. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer Everything goes into the mix.
Ronan Bennett is a Northern Irish writer and producer, known for Top Boy, Public Enemies and Gunpowder. He has been nominated for a BAFTA Award and has worked on various TV series and movies since 1993.
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13 September 2019. ( 2019-09-13) –. 7 September 2023. ( 2023-09-07) Top Boy is a British crime drama television series created and written by Ronan Bennett. The series is set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London Borough of Hackney. It focuses on two drug dealers, Dushane ( Ashley Walters) and Sully ( Kane Robinson ), along with ...
Jul 3, 2007 · Novelist Ronan Bennett endured two stints in British prisons before he ever imagined himself a writer. He rarely writes directly about the Troubles of Northern Ireland, but the struggle against ...
Sep 7, 2023 · Screenwriter Ronan Bennett, who conceived of the show’s premise after seeing a 12-year-old boy dealing drugs in 2009 in Hackney, East London — where he lives, and the show is set — has written of how the struggles in his own life – such as raising two children after losing his wife to cancer – bled into the tone of the scripts as he ...
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