Sally Potter
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English film director and screenwriter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing Orlando , which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Early life Potter was born and raised in London. Her mother was a music teacher and her father was an interior designer and a poet. Her younger brother Nic became the bassist for the rock group Van der Graaf Generator. When asked about her background, which influenced her work as a filmmaker, she responds, "I came from an atheist background and an anarchist background, which meant that I grew up in an environment that was full of questions, where nothing could be taken for granted."