Krysty Norma Lesley Wilson-Cairns was born on 26 May 1987 and is a Scottish screenwriter.
13 Facts About Krysty Wilson-Cairns
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns co-wrote it with Mendes and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns grew up in the Shawlands area of the city in a single-parent household.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns became a runner on the show as well as on other television series including Rebus and Lip Service.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns initially aspired to study physics and become an engineer but her on set experiences as a runner fostered her interest in working in the film industry.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns studied Digital Film and Television at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and graduated in 2009.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns's first creative work at the RCS was a short story about killer guinea pigs.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns then spent a year working at the BBC Comedy Unit, before moving to London where she gained an MA in Screenwriting from the National Film and Television School in 2013.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns sold her first film script to FilmNation Entertainment in 2014.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns was named as one of the 10 Screenwriters to Watch by the trade magazine Variety in their 2019 list.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns co-wrote the screenplay of Edgar Wright's psychological horror Last Night in Soho, and had a cameo as a bartender.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns spent a fortnight working in a burns unit in a hospital in Connecticut to learn about the American healthcare system to develop the script.
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Krysty Wilson-Cairns's upcoming projects include an adaptation of journalist Evan Ratliff's book The Mastermind: Drugs.