Roger Michell: Julia Roberts mourns the “Notting Hill” director

Roger Michell
Julia Roberts mourns the “Notting Hill” director

Director Roger Michell (center) with his “Notting Hill” leading actors Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.

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His romance “Notting Hill” with Julia Roberts has long been a cult. Director Roger Michell has now died at the age of 65.

With the film romance “Notting Hill” (1999), in which Julia Roberts (53, “Pretty Woman”) falls in love as an American film star with an inconspicuous London bookseller played by Hugh Grant (61, “Actually … Love”) , Roger Michell (1956-2021) achieved a great success shortly before the turn of the millennium. As the industry journal “Variety” has now been confirmed, the British director died on Wednesday (September 22nd) at the age of 65.

In a statement from Michell’s spokesman it says: “It is with great sadness that the family of Roger Michell, director, screenwriter and father of Harry, Rosie, Maggie and Sparrow, announce his death on September 22nd at the age of 65.”

The filmmaker, who was born in South Africa in 1956 and started a successful career as a theater director in England, made his debut as a filmmaker in 1997 with “My Night with Reg”. Two years later “Notting Hill” made him known worldwide and a sought-after Hollywood director. Other well-known works by him are the thriller “Spurwechsel” (2003) with Ben Affleck (49) and Samuel L. Jackson (72) and the comedy “Morning Glory” (2010) with Harrison Ford (79) and Rachel McAdams (42) .

Julia Roberts is happy to have worked with Roger Michell on Notting Hill

Screen superstar Julia Roberts appeared in a statement, from which the US magazine “People” quotes, deeply shaken by Roger Michell’s death. She praised the filmmaker as a “kind and meek man”. Michell had “always had a loving smile on his face”. “I’m so lucky to have had such a fantastic opportunity to work with him,” said the 53-year-old. The Oscar winner (“Erin Brockovich”) also expressed her condolences to Michell’s children. They were “the real lights of his life”.

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