ANDREW HAIGH born on this date, is an English filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the films Weekend, 45 Years, Lean on Pete, and All of Us Strangers. He also wrote and produced the HBO series Looking (2014–2015) and its film sequel Looking: The Movie, as well as the BBC Two limited series The North Water.

Haigh worked as an assistant editor on films such as Gladiator and Black Hawk Down before debuting as a writer/director with the short film Oil. In 2009 he directed his first feature-length film, Greek Pete, which debuted at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The film is set in London and centers on male prostitution, chronicling a year in the life of rent-boy Pete. Greek Pete won the Artistic Achievement Award at Outfest in 2009.

In 2023, Haigh returned to film directing the romance drama All of Us Strangers starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. The film is an adaptation of the Taichi Yamada novel Strangers (1988). The film premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival to critical acclaim and will be distributed by Searchlight Pictures. The film also screened across the UK as a part of the BFI London Film Festival and appeared at the New York Film Festival in October 2023.

Haigh is out gay and an atheist. He is married to novelist Andy Morwood, with whom he co-parents two daughters.

Haigh participated in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll, which is held once every 10 years for contemporary filmmakers to select their 10 favorite films in no particular order; he chose Black Narcissus, Some Like It Hot, L’avventura, The Manchurian Candidate, Cries and Whispers, Don’t Look Now, Watership Down,  Ratcatcher, Uzak, and The Holy Girl.