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British-Nigerian screenwriter

Misan Sagay is a British-Nigerian screenwriter, best known for the 2013 film Belle.

Biography

Sagay was born in Nigeria and at the age of five moved with her parents to England.^[1] She graduated from St Andrews University with a first-class Honours degree^[2] in biochemistry, then trained as a doctor at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London.^{[citation needed]}

After qualifying as a doctor, she specialised in PaediatricHaematology and Critical Care and at the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Westminster Children's Hospital.

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Career

A former emergency room doctor, Sagay made her writing debut with the 1999 film The Secret Laughter of Women on which she was a writer and producer.^[3] She co-wrote the teleplay for the Oprah-produced television movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Zora Neale Hurston.

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