Dolly Alderton was born on 31 August 1988 and is a British author and screenwriter.
21 Facts About Dolly Alderton
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Dolly Alderton was born to British and Canadian parents, and describes herself as "half Canadian".
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Dolly Alderton was educated at St Margaret's School in Bushey, and Rugby School, where she boarded in the sixth form.
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Dolly Alderton earned a degree in Drama and English from the University of Exeter, and a master's degree in journalism from City University.
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In October 2020, Dolly Alderton was working on a TV adaptation of Everything I Know About Love.
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In October 2020, it was reported that Dolly Alderton had sold the film rights to Ghosts.
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In October 2022, Alderton released a third book entitled Dear Dolly, a collection of her Sunday Times columns and a new personal essay.
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In 2024 Dolly Alderton was nominated for and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for her novel Good Material.
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Dolly Alderton co-created and co-hosted The High Low with Pandora Sykes.
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Dolly Alderton presented the podcast Love Stories in conjunction with her book Everything I Know About Love, where she interviewed a number of guests including Stanley Tucci, Ruth Jones and Marian Keyes.
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In January 2019, Penguin published a feature titled Six inspiring lessons I learnt from Love Stories, where Dolly Alderton described the experience as a "great privilege".
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Dolly Alderton has been a guest on numerous podcasts, including Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, and Table Manners with Jessie Ware.
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Dolly Alderton was the very first guest on Margaret Cabourn-Smith's podcast Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
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From February to April 2021, Dolly Alderton co-hosted a spin-off series for the Sentimental Garbage podcast titled Sentimental in the City with Caroline O'Donoghue.
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Dolly Alderton's work explores themes of love, female friendship, and her experiences living as a millennial woman.
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Dolly Alderton has written and directed two independent films with her writing partner Lauren Bensted.
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Dolly Alderton released The Confluence, a documentary about Tagg's Island in 2014, and Anna Island, a short film accepted to the London Short Film Festival, in 2015.
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Dolly Alderton worked as a script assistant on the final series of Channel 4's Fresh Meat and directed the behind-the-scenes online videos for the last series of Fresh Meat and the last series of Channel 4's Peep Show.
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Dolly Alderton adapted her book Everything I Know About Love into a romantic comedy with Working Title TV.
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In May 2021, Dolly Alderton announced that the adaptation had been commissioned by the BBC and later by Peacock in the US.
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Dolly Alderton appeared in a Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2018.