Michael Eugene Costigan (born 1931) is an Australian Roman Catholic writer, editor, former priest, senior public servant and social justice advocate. He studied for the priesthood in Melbourne and Rome and was ordained in 1955. He left the...
The Departed is a 2006 neo-noir crime thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. A remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, it is also loosely based on real-life people, including the Winter Hill Gang,...
George J. Costigan (born 8 August 1947) is an English actor who is best known for portraying Bob in the 1987 film Rita, Sue and Bob Too and for roles in TV series such as Happy Valley and So Haunt Me.
Siobhan Margaret Finneran (born 27 April 1966) is a British actress. She made her screen debut in the independent film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) and subsequently worked consistently in television drama including roles in Coronation Street...
Tom Rob Smith (born February 19, 1979) is an English author, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the author of Child 44, a novel about the investigation of child murders during the Soviet Union. The book was adapted into a film of the...
Francis Xavier Costigan, , (14 January 1931 – 13 April 2009) was an Australian lawyer, Royal Commissioner and social justice activist. Costigan is renowned for presiding over the Costigan Commission into organised crime.
Unforgiven is a three-part British television drama series, written by Sally Wainwright and directed by David Evans, that premiered on ITV (ITV1 and UTV) in January 2009. Set in Yorkshire, Unforgiven follows Ruth Slater (Suranne Jones), a woman...
This is a list of people and characters with the given name Michael.