Matthew Charman was born on 5 June 1979 and is a British screenwriter, playwright, and producer.
17 Facts About Matt Charman
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Matt Charman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 2015 film Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written with Joel and Ethan Coen.
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Charman started out writing for theatre, making a breakthrough as writer-in-residence at the National Theatre in London, where then-director Nicholas Hytner described Charman as having "a priceless nose for a story".
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Matt Charman was born and raised around the location of Horsham, West Sussex, England, and his family were from Great House Farm in Southwater, where his father's side of the family had lived for 180 years.
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The family moved to the hamlet of Dragon's Green when Matt Charman was 4 years old.
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Matt Charman attended junior school in Southwater, getting involved in school plays from a young age.
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Matt Charman continued his interest in drama at comprehensive secondary school at Forest School, Horsham, getting involved with rehearsals and with stage and lighting equipment.
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Matt Charman was involved with the performances of The King and I and My Fair Lady whilst a student of Forest School, Horsham.
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Matt Charman went on to write The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder and The Observer, about a UN election observer's intervention in a West African nation's political crisis.
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Future theatre projects for Matt Charman include an adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck for the stage, and a play for Nicholas Hytner's new London Theatre Company.
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In 2015, Matt Charman created the three-part police drama Black Work, starring Sheridan Smith, which aired on ITV and was the channel's biggest new drama of the year.
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Matt Charman was nominated for a WGA award and Critics' Choice award in the same category.
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Matt Charman wrote a second screenplay for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, based on Walter Cronkite's 1968 visit to Vietnam.
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Matt Charman was executive producer on Operation Finale, written by Matthew Orton, about the hunt for Adolf Eichmann.
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Matt Charman is currently executive producer on Liberty, written by Neil Widener and Gavin James, an adaptation of George Koskimaki's book "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne" for Fox 2000 about a key conflict during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Matt Charman is executive producing another upcoming film written by Widener and James, Battle of Alcatraz.
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Matt Charman's intended directorial feature debut, The Mothership, was cancelled by Netflix.