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4. Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005), the latter of which he also directed. Haggis also co-wrote the war film Flags of Our ...
Nov 14, 2022 · A jury found that the Canadian filmmaker raped and forced oral sex on publicist Haleigh Breest in his New York apartment in 2013. Haggis denied the allegations and said he was broke after losing his career and home in a fire.
Paul Haggis is a Canadian-American writer, producer, and director of films such as Crash, Million Dollar Baby, and Casino Royale. He is also the founder of Artists for Peace and Justice, a non-profit organization that builds schools and clinics in Haiti.
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Nov 10, 2022 · A jury on Thursday found the Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis liable for raping a former film industry publicist in his Manhattan apartment in 2013, ordering him to pay her at least $7.5 million.
- Early Years
- Early Television Career
- Due South
- Million Dollar Baby
- Crash
- James Bond Reboot and Other Successes
- Later Television Career
- Personal Life
- Charity Work
- Scientology
Paul Haggis’s father, Ted, served in the Canadian Navy during the Second World War. He also competed as a sprinter in the 1948 Olympic Summer Games before running his own construction company. Paul’s mother, Mary, was a telephone operator. She raised Paul and his sisters Catholic, but stopped bringing them to church when Haggis was 13 after she con...
In 1975, Haggis moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career writing for television. It took more than three years to sell his first script (for The Love Boat). He persisted with the support of his family and was eventually hired by legendary producer Norman Lear, who gave Haggis his first writing job on Diff'rent Strokes in 1983. A succession of series...
Haggis returned to Canada to produce the pilot and write for the first two seasons of the popular series Due South (1994–96). It starred Paul Gross as a straightlaced RCMP constable on assignment in Chicago. Due South was the first Canadian series to air during American primetime despite its unabashed Canadian character. The series earned Haggis si...
In 2000, Haggis moved on to writing, directing and producing movies. After discovering an unpublished collection of short stories by F.X. Toole called Rope Burns, Haggis secured the film rights and wrote the script for Million Dollar Baby on spec. He submitted it to Clint Eastwood's production company and, to his surprise, Eastwood chose to direct ...
Million Dollar Baby’s Oscar triumph in February 2005 built on the momentum that began for Haggis when Crash, his first feature as a director, debuted to much acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September 2004. Crash drew on Haggis’s experience of being carjacked in 1991 to depict racial tensions in Los Angeles, with complex...
Haggis’s hot-streak continued when Clint Eastwood hired him to adapt James Bradley and Ron Powers’s novel Flags of Our Fathers, about the bloody Second World War battle for Iwo Jima Island and the iconic photograph of the victorious raising of the American flag. The result was two films released back-to-back in 2006: Flags of Our Fathers, which tol...
Haggis returned to television in 2007 with the crime drama The Black Donnellys, inspired by the story of rival London families that ended in murder. In 2015, he directed the acclaimed HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, co-written and produced by The Wire writer David Simon and based on a fight for social housing in Yonkers, New York, in the late-1980s ...
Paul Haggis has three daughters, Alissa, Lauren and Katy, from his marriage to Diane Gettas (1977–97), and a son, James, from his marriage to Deborah Rennard (1997–2009). Haggis often works with members of his family. His surviving sister, Jo Francis, edited In the Valley of Elah, The Next Three Days and Show Me a Hero. Haggis’s workaholic nature s...
Haggis has a reputation for fundraising and philanthropy. He co-founded the charity Artists for Peace and Justice in 2009. The organization provides relief in Haiti by improving education, health care and access to clean water.
Haggis became involved with the Church of Scientology in 1975 and was a prominent member for many years. However, he apostatized in 2009 due to Scientology’s practice of “disconnection,” in which believers sever ties from skeptical friends and family, and due to the organization’s outspoken homophobia. (Two of Haggis’s daughters are gay.) As Scient...
Nov 10, 2022 · Paul Haggis lost his civil rape trial after a New York jury found the Academy Award-winning director liable on charges that he sexually assaulted a former film publicist after a movie premiere ...
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Nov 10, 2022 · JN. A jury ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis Thursday to pay at least $7.5 million to a woman who accused him of rape in one of several #MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood ...
