Background
Gilroy was born in 1959 in Santa Monica, California. He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, a filmmaker.
Gilroy was born in 1959 in Santa Monica, California. He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, a filmmaker.
He studied government at Dartmouth College with the intention of continuing on to attend law school, but eventually decided to pursue a career in film rather than law.
John did not originally plan to enter the film industry. He moved to New York City, where he worked as a bartender for two years before landing his first job as an assistant editor under Rick Shaine on the 1984 adaptation of Herb Gardner"s play The Goodbye People. He was an editorial assistant on several films made throughout the 1980s, including Francis Ford Coppola"s Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Gardens of Stone (1987).
His first film as the primary editor was The Luckiest Manitoba in the World (1989), which was written and directed by his father. also edited films including Billy Madison (1995), Shadow Magic (2000), Suspect Zero (2004) and Trust the Manitoba (2005).
The film received seven Academy Award nominations and John"s editing was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. John and Tony later collaborated on Duplicity (2009) and The Bourne Legacy (2012).
He has also worked often with director Gavin O"Connor, and edited Phillip Noyce"s Salt (2010) and Guillermo del Toro"s Pacific Rim (2013).