Hugh Costello
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Career
Costello made his name in radio (recently Bail Out, My Dear Children Of The Whole World, What The Bishops Knew and Conclave) and television (credits include The AmbassadorAmbassador (TV series)
The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC written by Hugh Costello.The series starred Pauline Collins in the title role as Harriet Smith, the new British ambassador to Ireland and dealt with the personal and professional pressures in Harriet's life, as well as wider...
, Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
and On Home Ground). He also wrote the short film The Rope Trick as well as the feature Auto de Fe. However, he is best known for writing the critically acclaimed 2007 film Bernard and Doris
Bernard and Doris
Bernard and Doris is a 2007 film directed by Bob Balaban. The teleplay by Hugh Costello is a semi-fictionalized account of the relationship that developed between socialite heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke and her self-destructive Irish employee Bernard Lafferty later in her life.The film...
, which premiered on HBO on the 9th February 2008 and was nominated for ten Emmy awards, including Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries.