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Peace one day founder jeremy gilley speaks at one young world
Jeremy Gilley (born 1969) is an English actor, filmmaker and founder of the nonprofit organisation Peace One Day.
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- Peace one day founder jeremy gilley speaks at one young world
- C21 tv interview jude law and jeremy gilley
- Early life
- Filmography
- Peace One Day
- Personal life
- References
C21 tv interview jude law and jeremy gilley
Early life
Born in 1969, Gilley spent his early years in Southampton, England. Gilley was educated at Millfield School, a boarding independent school in the village of Street in Somerset. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of 17.
Filmography
Peace One Day
Following a decade of professional acting, in 1994 Gilley started a film making company, P.U.R.E. Productions.
In 1998, Gilley began to make the Peace One Day documentary, eventually deciding to aim for a UN resolution formalising the idea. This goal was reached in 2001.
Gilley organised two concerts at Brixton Academy, London, on 21 September 2002 and 2003. In 2004, the Peace One Day documentary premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and the BBC aired the documentary in September of the same year. In 2005, Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller hosted the film's North American premiere to highlight Peace Day.
Gilley produced and filmed The Day After Peace, in association with the BBC. The film documents polio vaccinations on 21 September 2007 in Afghanistan. In May 2008 Gilley received the award Campaigner of the Year.
In 2010 Peace One Day and Gilley were a recipient of the Carnegie Foundation's Wateler Peace Prize.
Personal life
Gilley was in a relationship with actress Emilia Fox with whom he has a daughter, Rose.