Misan sagay biography definition

British-Nigerian screenwriter

Misan Sagay is a British-Nigerian screenwriter, best known for the 2013 film Belle.

Misan sagay biography definition

Biography

Sagay was born in Nigeria and at the age of five moved with her parents to England.^[1] She graduated from St Andrews University with a first-class Honours degree^[2] in biochemistry, then trained as a doctor at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London.^{[citation needed]}

After qualifying as a doctor, she specialised in PaediatricHaematology and Critical Care and at the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Westminster Children's Hospital.

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Career

A former emergency room doctor, Sagay made her writing debut with the 1999 film The Secret Laughter of Women on which she was a writer and producer.^[3] She co-wrote the teleplay for the Oprah-produced television movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Zora Neale Hurston.

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