PJ Hogan

Born: 1962
Where: Brisbane, Australia

The Australian director first attracted attention for the black comedy Muriel's Wedding starring Toni Collette and the Abba-loving Muriel.

An international sleeper hit written and directed by Hogan, it premiered at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and won four Australain Film Institute Awards.

Hogan followed that success with the 1997 screwball comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, starring Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett.

A graduate of the Australian Film and Television School, his short Getting Wet - which he wrote, directed and edited - won an AFI award.

For the next ten years he worked as a writer and second unit director on a variety of projects until Muriel's Wedding.

In 2002, he co-wrote and directed Unconditional Love, a comic caper starring Rupert Everett and Kathy Bates.

Recent work includes the live action caper Peter Pan, starring Jason Isaacs and Olivia Williams.