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Irvine Welsh

Highest Rated: 100% Offended by Irvine Welsh (2020)

Lowest Rated: 45% The Acid House (1998)

Birthday: Sep 27, 1958

Birthplace: Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Many people first encountered the work of Irvine Welsh via the adaption of his debut novel, Trainspotting (1993), into the stylish and audacious second feature film by director Danny Boyle. Welsh's chronicle of the lives of Scottish heroin addicts was followed by a collection of linked short stories, The Acid House (1994), several of which Welsh adapted for the film version. Welsh continued writing books, several of which were best sellers, as well as TV movies and made forays into directing and playwriting. His use of Scottish dialect and use of dashes instead of quotation marks did not deter readers who made many of his books best sellers, and in 2012, his Trainspotting prequel, Skagboys, was published.

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Highest rated movies

100% Offended by Irvine Welsh
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90% 93% Trainspotting
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81% 78% T2 Trainspotting Watchlist
59% 29% Creation Stories
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45% 69% The Acid House
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Dockers
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78% Wedding Belles
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Underdog: The Andy Swallow Story
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Underdog: The Andy Swallow Story Self - 2024
59% 29% Creation Stories Titch (Character),
Writer
- 2021
100% No Score Yet Offended by Irvine Welsh Presenter (Character) - 2020
81% 78% T2 Trainspotting Executive Producer $2.4M 2017
No Score Yet 78% Wedding Belles Writer - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dockers Screenwriter - 1999
45% 69% The Acid House Parkie (Character),
Writer
$142.8K 1998
90% 93% Trainspotting Mikey Forrester (Character) $16.6M 1996

TV

Credit
83% 58% Irvine Welsh's Crime Creator 2021 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Artsnight Host 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2015