---
name: "Roddy Doyle"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roddy-doyle"
fi1m_id: "roddy-doyle"
imdb_id: "nm0236486"
tmdb_id: 70144
wikidata_id: "Q73506"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "8 May 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T12:02:54.744004+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Roddy Doyle

## Identity

Roddy Doyle

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roddy-doyle
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roddy-doyle
- **IMDb ID:** nm0236486
- **TMDB ID:** 70144
- **Wikidata ID:** Q73506
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_Doyle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236486/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70144

Writer. Born 8 May 1968 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 8 May 1968, Dublin, Ireland
- **Active:** 1991–1994
- **Frequently works with:** [Lynda Myles](https://film.one/person/lynda-myles.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_Doyle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236486/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70144

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Snapper*](https://film.one/film/the-snapper.md) (82)
- **Peacock:** [*The Commitments*](https://film.one/film/the-commitments.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Snapper* (1993), Fi1m 82, Novel, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-snapper.md)
- *The Commitments* (1991), Fi1m 82, Screenplay, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-commitments.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Greyhound of a Girl* (2023), Novel
- *Rosie* (2019), Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *New Boy* (2007), Writer
- *When Brendan Met Trudy* (2000), Writer, Producer
- *The Van* (1996), Screenplay, Novel
- *Family* (1994), Writer
- *Family* (1994), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Snapper* (1993), Screenplay, Novel — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-snapper.md)
- *The Commitments* (1991), Novel, Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-commitments.md)
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Writer
- *Omnibus* (1967), series, Actor
- *Hell For Leather*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Roddy Doyle in the festival garden at Haus der Berliner Festspiele on September 14th, 2015, during his participation in the Children´s and Young Adult Program o](https://film.one/media/person/78843/gallery-5107d23110bf.jpg) Roddy Doyle in the festival garden at Haus der Berliner Festspiele on September 14th, 2015, during his participation in the Children´s and Young Adult Program o — Christoph Rieger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Roddy_Doyle_in_the_festival_garden_at_Haus_der_Berliner_Festspiele_on_September_14th%2C_2015%2C_during_his_participation_in_the_Children%C2%B4s_and_Young_Adult_Program_of_the_15th_international_literature_festival_berlin.JPG/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Roddy Doyle](https://film.one/media/person/78843/gallery-1ba399876123.jpg) Roddy Doyle — Christoph Rieger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Roddy_Doyle_in_the_festival_garden_at_Haus_der_Berliner_Festspiele_on_September_14th_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Roddy_Doyle_in_the_festival_garden_at_Haus_der_Berliner_Festspiele_on_September_14th_2015_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 1 nominated

- honorary doctorate 2009: honorary doctorate (won)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2003: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)
- Booker Prize 1993: Booker Prize (won), for *Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha*
- Booker Prize 1991: Booker Prize (nominated), for *The Van*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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