Editing Danny Boyle (section)

==Early life and education==
Danny Francis Boyle was born on 20 October 1956,<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who|title=Boyle, Danny|id=U251055|volume=2015|edition=online [[Oxford University Press]]}} {{subscription required}}</ref> in [[Radcliffe, Greater Manchester|Radcliffe]], [[Lancashire]]<!-- Radcliffe was part of Lancaashire in 1956; please do not change -->, [[England]], about {{convert|6|mi|adj=off}} north of [[Manchester]]'s city centre, to Irish parents Frank and Annie Boyle, both from [[County Galway]]. He has a twin sister, Marie, and a younger sister, Bernadette, both of whom are teachers.<ref name="nytimes">{{Cite news|title=Danny Boyle|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/188724/Danny-Boyle/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225170109/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/188724/Danny-Boyle/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 February 2009|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Rebecca Flint Marx|date=2009|access-date=29 October 2008}}</ref><ref name="yahoo!movies">{{Cite web|title=Danny Boyle – Biography|url=http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/person/danny-boyle/biography.html|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316184436/http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/person/danny-boyle/biography.html|archive-date=16 March 2014}}</ref>

Boyle was brought up in a working-class Catholic family. He was an [[Altar server|altar boy]] for eight years and his mother had the priesthood in mind for him, but at the age of&nbsp;14 he was persuaded by a priest not to transfer to a [[seminary]].<ref name="irishindependent">{{Citation|title=The man who could have been pope|last=Caden|first=Sarah|url=http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=129&si=1401311&issue_id=12514|work=Sunday Independent|date=22 May 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904102814/http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=129&si=1401311&issue_id=12514|archive-date=4 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|Whether he was saving me from the priesthood or the priesthood from me, I don't know. But quite soon after, I started doing drama. And there's a real connection, I think. All these directors – [[Martin Scorsese]], [[John Woo]], [[M. Night Shyamalan]] – they were all meant to be priests. There's something very theatrical about it. It's basically the same job – poncing around, telling people what to think.<ref name="Dannyboyletimes">{{Citation|title=Danny Boyle|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article526377.ece|last=Moggach|first=Lottie|work=The Times|date=26 May 2005|access-date=11 March 2009|archive-date=15 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615185250/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article526377.ece|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle almost became a priest|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/4238043/Slumdog-Millionaire-director-Danny-Boyle-almost-became-a-priest.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/4238043/Slumdog-Millionaire-director-Danny-Boyle-almost-became-a-priest.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|last=Leach|first=Ben|date=14 January 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=23 February 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>}} He now describes himself as a "spiritual atheist".<ref>{{cite web|last=Kolan|first=Patrick|title=Interview: Danny Boyle|url=http://uk.ign.com/articles/2007/03/15/interview-danny-boyle?page=2|website=IGN|date=14 March 2007|access-date=11 July 2013|archive-date=25 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225222236/https://uk.ign.com/articles/2007/03/15/interview-danny-boyle?page=2|url-status=live}}</ref>

Boyle attended [[Thornleigh Salesian College]], a Catholic boys' [[direct grant grammar school]] in [[Bolton]],<ref>{{Citation|title=Golden Globes are calling for Danny Boyle|url=http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/4035893.Golden_Globes_are_calling_for_Danny_Boyle/|last=Dibbits|first=Kat|date=10 January 2009|publisher=theboltonnews.co.uk|access-date=25 February 2009|archive-date=10 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110134012/http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/4035893.Golden_Globes_are_calling_for_Danny_Boyle/|url-status=live}}</ref> and studied English and drama at the University College of North Wales (now [[Bangor University]]), where he directed several productions for the student drama society.<ref name="nytimes"/><ref name="Bangor University">{{cite web|title=Slumdog Millionaire fast becoming one of year's major films.|url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full-ori.php.en?Id=768|publisher=Bangor University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316184259/http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full-ori.php.en?Id=768|archive-date=16 March 2014}}</ref>