Film director.
Born in Utica, a rust-belt city in New York, Curran studied design and illustration at Syracuse University, and worked in the industry in Mahattan before he relocated to Sydney in the 1980s. In Sydney, he worked on television commercials before directing his debut feature film, Praise. He then directed a number of films in the United States, including We Don't Live Here Anymore, The Painted Veil, and Stone, as well as writing the script for The Killer Inside Me, directed by Michael Winterbottom. He returned to Australian film-making for Tracks in 2013. His most recent film is Chappaquiddick (2017), an account of a fatal car accident involving (later) Senator Ted Kennedy.
In 2018, it was announced that Curran would make his television debut with Bloom, a six-part series written by Glen Dolman that explores the appearance of mysterious plants capable of restoring youth.
