Early interests suggested a possible career as a musician, with Minghella playing keyboards with local bands Earthlight and Dancer. Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ryde, Sandown Grammar School, and St John's College, Portsmouth. He was one of five children, his sisters Gioia Minghella-Giddens, Edana Minghella and Loretta Minghella, and a brother Dominic Minghella who would also become a screenwriter and producer. His mother's ancestors originally came from Valvori, a small village in southern Lazio, Italy. His parents were Edoardo Minghella (an Italian immigrant) and Leeds-born Gloria Alberta (née Arcari). His family are well known on the Island, where they ran a café in Ryde until the 1980s and have run an eponymous business making and selling Italian-style ice cream since the 1950s. Minghella was born in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England that is a popular holiday resort.
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