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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early by becoming fluent in French and German. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism (led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin), though he also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.
At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde sued the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for libel. After a series of trials, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency with other men and imprisoned for two years, held to hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis (1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.
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Filmography
all 167
Movies 163
Writer 149
self 5
TV Shows 4
The Canterville Ghost (2023)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2023)
Blue Moon Once (2023)
Salomé: Do Not Dance, My Daughter (2022)
Being Earnest (2021)
Salomé (2021)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2021)
Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde (2021)
The importance of being Earnest (2021)
Dorian Gray: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde (2020)
Salome (2020)
El fantasma de Canterville (2018)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2018)
An Ideal Husband (2018)
Lady Windermere's Fan (2018)
A Woman of No Importance (2017)
Damocles (2016)
The Canterville Ghost (2016)
The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage (2015)
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose (2015)
Wilde Salomé (2013)
The Selfish Giant (2013)
Salomé (2013)
Salome: San Francisco Opera (2012)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2011)
Belonging to Laura (2009)
Dorian Gray (2009)
Strauss: Salome (2008)
Ashta Chamma (2008)
Salomé (2008)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007)
Dítě hvězdy (2007)
Ernest in Love (2005)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2005)
The Canterville Ghost (2005)
A Good Woman (2004)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose (2003)
Dorian (2003)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
The Canterville Ghost (2001)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
Sex Files: Portrait of the Soul (1998)
The Canterville Ghost (1997)
Simply Wilde (1997)
Story of the Red Rose (1997)
Salome (1997)
The Canterville Ghost (1996)
The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde (1995)
Fleshy Doll (1995)
A Few Pages From the Life of a Ghost (1992)
Salomé (1992)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1992)
The Canterville Ghost (1990)
The Canterville Ghost (1989)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1988)
The Canterville Ghost (1988)
Salome's Last Dance (1988)
A canterville-i kísértet (1987)
The Canterville Ghost (1986)
Ein idealer Gatte (1986)
Salomé (1986)
Oscar Wilde: Spendthrift of Genius (1986)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1986)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1985)
Theatre Night (1985)
The Canterville Ghost (1985)
Ideálny manžel (1985)
KungFu Boys 3 (1984)
Zločin Arthura Savilla (1984)
Tale of the Star-Child (1983)
The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983)
Ein Mord liegt auf der Hand (1983)
Il est important d'être aimé (1981)
An Ideal Husband (1980)
In Memoriam or The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1979)
Jak je důležité míti Filipa (1979)
Lady Windermeres Fächer (1978)
Salomé (1978)
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1977)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1976)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976)
Keine Hochzeit ohne Ernst (1976)
Two women (1975)
O Caçador de Fantasma (1975)
What I Haven't Told the Prince (1975)
The Remarkable Rocket (1975)
The Canterville Ghost (1974)
The Happy Prince (1974)
Salome (1974)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1974)
Salome (1973)
Ein idealer Gatte (1973)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
Salome (1972)
An Ideal Husband (1972)
The Selfish Giant (1971)
Theatre Macabre (1971)
Salome (1971)
Josie's Castle (1971)
The Canterville Ghost (1970)
Mein Freund Bunbury (1970)
Dorian Gray (1970)
Alta comedia (1970)
Salomé (1970)
An Ideal Husband (1969)
Salomé (1969)
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1969)
Portrét Doriana Graya (1969)
Duch z Canterville (1968)
Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a (1968)
Zločin lorda Savila (1968)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1968)
Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen (1967)
An Ideal Husband (1967)
Ein idealer Gatte (1966)
Das Gespenst von Canterville (1965)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1964)
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1964)
The Canterville Ghost (1964)
The Canterville Ghost (1962)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1961)
The Fisherman and His Soul (1961)
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1961)
L'importanza d'essere Franco (1958)
An Ideal Husband (1958)
Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde (1958)
Arthur's Crime (1955)
The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1954)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Al compás de tu mentira (1950)
The Fan (1949)
Story of a Bad Woman (1948)
An Ideal Husband (1947)
An Ideal Husband (1947)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Una mujer sin importancia (1945)
El abanico de Lady Windermere (1944)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
The Young Mistress' Fan (1939)
A Woman of No Importance (1937)
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1936)
Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935)
An Ideal Husband (1935)
Let's Touch Wood (1933)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
Salomé (1922)
A Woman of No Importance (1921)
Villa Destin (1921)
Salome (1921)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
The Royal Life (1918)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1916)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915)
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1915)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913)
De bannelingen (1911)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1910)
Salome (The Dance of Seven Veils) (1908)
The Nihilists (1905)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Soneto nocturno
The Selfish Giant
Zombie Psycho STHLM
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1854-10-16
Deathday1900-11-30 (46 years old)
Birth NameOscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Birth PlaceDublin, Republic of Ireland
ReligionRoman Catholic
Height
RelationshipsConstance Lloyd
ChildrenCyril Holland, Vyvyan Holland
FatherWilliam Wilde
MotherJane Wilde
SiblingsWillie Wilde, Isola Francesca Emily Wilde
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Also Known AsOskar Uayld, Sebastian Melmoth, 오스카 와일드, Оскар Вайлд
AwardsNewdigate Prize
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