21 Facts About Jane Goldman

Jane Goldman is mostly known for collaborating with director Matthew Vaughn on the screenplays of Kingsman: The Secret Service and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle, as well as X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass, and Stardust.

Jane Goldman wrote the script for The Limehouse Golem and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, both released in 2016.

Jane Goldman is the writer of Edgar Wright's upcoming remake of Barbarella.

Jane Goldman has written books such as The X-Files Book of the Unexplained and the novel Dreamworld.

Goldman presented her own TV show, Jane Goldman Investigates, a non-fiction series on the paranormal, for the channel Living.

Jane Goldman was raised in a liberal, middle-class family in north London, the only child of a Jewish father, Stuart and a Buddhist mother, Amanda.

Jane Goldman attended the King Alfred School, an independent school in Hampstead, until the age of 15 before moving to the United States to follow Boy George on tour.

Jane Goldman wrote books: Thirteen-Something, Streetsmarts: A Teenager's Safety Guide, Sussed and Streetwise, the two-volume best-selling series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, her first and only novel Dreamworld, and Do the Right Thing, among others.

Jane Goldman Investigates researched the paranormal and was transmitted by channel Living between 2003 and 2004.

Jane Goldman is in the production teams of a number of TV shows, such as The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

Jane Goldman made the jump to screenwriting, and was part of the writing team for David Baddiel's short-lived sitcom Baddiel's Syndrome, in 2001.

Jane Goldman continued to work in adaptations, and was a co-writer with Vaughn and Peter Straughan for the 2011 drama-thriller The Debt, which was based on the 2007 Israeli film HaHov and directed by John Madden.

Jane Goldman adapted for Hammer The Woman in Black, a gothic horror film based on Susan Hill's novel.

Jane Goldman is credited on X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to First Class, as writing the story with Matthew Vaughn and Simon Kinberg.

Jane Goldman wrote the script for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an adaptation of the Ransom Riggs novel of the same name, which was directed by Tim Burton.

Jane Goldman read the book years before she was a professional screenwriter and kept it in mind as a potential project.

In June 2018, it was confirmed that Jane Goldman's pilot had been greenlit by HBO, and would focus on "the world's descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour", thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones.

In December 2017, Jane Goldman was announced as the writer of Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, with Rob Marshall being eyed to direct.

Jane Goldman co-wrote the 2020 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley.

Alongside her husband, broadcaster Jonathan Ross, Jane Goldman appeared as a character in Neil Gaiman's short story "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch" in 1996.

Jane Goldman won the Cosmopolitan magazine Woman of Tomorrow award for achievement in journalism.