• Christy Brown (5 June 1932 – 7 September 1981) was an Irish writer and painter whose cerebral palsy allowed him to write or type only with the toes of...
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  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan (in his director debut) adapted by Sheridan...
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  • autobiography of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy on 5 June 1932 in Dublin, Ireland. As one of 13 surviving children, Brown went on to be...
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  • film about Irish writer Christy Brown. My Left Foot may also refer to: My Left Foot (book), an autobiography by Christy Brown "My Other Left Foot" (NCIS)...
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    Christy Nicole Turlington Burns (née Turlington; born January 2, 1969) is an American fashion model. She initially attracted fame in the late 1980s and...
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  • 'beautiful', 'lovely', even 'princess'. Christy Brown (1932–1981), Irish writer and painter, author of My Left Foot Christy Canyon (born 1966), American actress...
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    his personal version of method acting in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot. It won him numerous awards, including...
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    tells the true story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. Christy Brown grew up in a poor, working-class...
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  • his own vomit)" and classified it as "Death by misadventure". 1981: Christy Brown (49) 2009: Christopher Nolan (43), Irish poet and author. 2015: Praful...
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  • Fourth of July, The Little Mermaid, and My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown with two, and The Abyss, Balance, Batman, Cinema Paradiso, Common Threads:...
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    Oscar-winning film My Left Foot, in which he portrayed the childhood days of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left...
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    Christy Carlson Romano (born March 20, 1984) is an American actress, podcaster, and singer. She is best known for playing Ren Stevens on Even Stevens...
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    is known for starring as Kay Curley in Stephen Frears' The Snapper, Christy Brown's paramour Mary in My Left Foot, and Wyn Ryan, sister of Dr. Sam Ryan...
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    1969) is an Irish actor. His credits include My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989), Into the West (1992), Sharpe's Battle (1995), The Nephew (1998)...
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    Robert Frederick Christy (May 14, 1916 – October 3, 2012) was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and later astrophysicist who was one of the last...
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    "Lasse" Karlsson Pelle the Conqueror 1989 (62nd) Daniel Day-Lewis ‡ Christy Brown My Left Foot Kenneth Branagh King Henry V Henry V Tom Cruise Ron Kovic...
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  • his first Best Actor win for his portrayal of cerebral palsy patient Christy Brown in My Left Foot. The Academy’s incentivizing of such casting practices...
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  • 1947 Nirad C. Chaudhuri The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951 Christy Brown My Left Foot 1954 Elie Wiesel Night 1955 Mary McCarthy Memories of a...
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  • Field of Dreams Phil Alden Robinson The novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella My Left Foot Shane Connaughton & Jim Sheridan The memoir by Christy Brown...
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    Seán MacBride, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, James Larkin, Brendan Behan, Christy Brown and Luke Kelly of the Dubliners. The grave of Michael Collins, the nationalist...
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    Christy Mathewson biography Works by Christy Mathewson at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Christy Mathewson at Internet Archive Works by Christy Mathewson...
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  • his first patients was Christy Brown, a cerebral palsy patient who later became a notable author himself. Collis proofread Brown's first attempt at an autobiography...
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  • (disambiguation) Kris Brown (born 1976), American football player Christy Brown (1932–1981), Irish author, painter and poet Christina Brown, American journalist...
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    Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. Image of Harry Boland's grave Christy Brown – writer of My Left Foot and subject of the film of the same name Father...
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    lived at 70 Kildare Road which is marked with a plaque in his honour Christy Brown, writer born in Crumlin Dean Byrne, light welterweight boxer, born in...
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  • sudden death. In the last year of his life he portrayed the father of Christy Brown (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) in the Academy Award-winning film, My Left...
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  • 2 – Dame Enid Lyons, Australian politician (b. 1897) September 7 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (b. 1932) September 8 Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli...
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    anthropologist Margaret Mead and Christy Brown, a disabled Irish artist. Daniel Day-Lewis, in preparation for his Oscar-winning role as Brown for the 1989 movie My...
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    1989 Tom Cruise Ron Kovic Born on the Fourth of July Daniel Day-Lewis Christy Brown My Left Foot Jack Lemmon Jake Tremont Dad Al Pacino Frank Keller Sea...
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  • Dermot Bolger – writer Elizabeth Bowen – writer Clare Boylan – writer Christy Brown – writer John Byrne – columnist, cartoonist Austin Clarke – poet, novelist...
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