1. Joseph Wright was born on 25 August 1972 and is an English film director.
17 Facts About Joe Wright
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Joe Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting.
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Joe Wright made films on his Super 8 camera and spent time in the evenings acting in a drama club.
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Joe Wright went to Islington Green Secondary School, but left without any GCSEs.
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Joe Wright began his career working at his parents' puppet theatre, the Little Angel Theatre in Islington.
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Joe Wright took classes at the Anna Scher Theatre School and acted professionally on stage and camera.
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Joe Wright spent an art foundation year at Camberwell College of Arts, before taking a degree in fine art and film at Central St Martins where he was tutored by Malcolm Le Grice and Vera Neubauer.
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Joe Wright worked on a variety of productions in numerous roles, including casting director.
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Joe Wright followed this up with the serials Bodily Harm with Timothy Spall and the highly acclaimed Charles II: The Power and the Passion with Rufus Sewell, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Serial.
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In 2022, Joe Wright began directing an eight-part adaptation of the bestselling novel M: Son of the Century, a historical novel by Antonio Scurati recounting the rise of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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In 2023, Wright was developing an adaptation for HBO of the bestselling non-fiction book Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune about heiress Huguette Clark, daughter of copper baron and United States Senator William A Clark.
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Joe Wright's next feature was an adaptation of Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Atonement, which reunited Joe Wright with Keira Knightley, and stars James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan.
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Joe Wright reunited with Atonement star Saoirse Ronan for the 2011 action thriller Hanna.
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Joe Wright directed the 2012 screen adaptation by Sir Tom Stoppard of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina.
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Joe Wright then directed the 2015 prequel to Peter Pan for Warner Bros.
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Joe Wright was married to British-American sitarist Anoushka Shankar from 2010 until 2019.
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Since 2017, Joe Wright has been in a relationship with American actress Haley Bennett.