1. Matt Greenhalgh is best known for writing the screenplays of several biopic films, including Control, Nowhere Boy, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and Back to Black.
17 Facts About Matt Greenhalgh
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Matt Greenhalgh graduated from St Bede's College, Manchester and Loreto College, Manchester.
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Matt Greenhalgh attended Warrington Collegiate Institute with a focus in media studies.
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Matt Greenhalgh graduated from the University of Chester where he studied print media.
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Matt Greenhalgh started out writing nightclub reviews for the Manchester magazine, City Life.
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Matt Greenhalgh got his start working in television on the Channel 4 TV series Hollyoaks and Brookside as a runner.
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Matt Greenhalgh was first assistant director on the 2000 TV show, Fat Friends, and on 2001's Clocking Off.
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In 2002, Matt Greenhalgh wrote for the BBC TV series, Clocking Off.
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Matt Greenhalgh worked as a writer and director on series 1 and 2 of the BBC3 series, the Mancunian Burn It, and then as a writer and director on the Channel 4 series, Legless.
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Matt Greenhalgh's film writing debut was a biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, the 2007 film Control, which was directed by Anton Corbijn.
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Matt Greenhalgh was awarded the Carl Foreman BAFTA award at the 61st British Academy Film Awards, and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the British Independent Film Award for his work on the film.
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Matt Greenhalgh wrote the 2009 film Nowhere Boy, about a young John Lennon, which was directed by Sam Taylor Wood and starred Aaron Johnson.
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In 2010, Greenhalgh wrote and directed the short film, Acid Burn, which starred Agyness Deyn and Matthew Beard.
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Matt Greenhalgh wrote the screenplay for the 2013's The Look of Love, a film about the famous British pornographer Paul Raymond, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan and Anna Friel which premiered in Sundance Film Festival 2013 and Berlin Film Festival 2013.
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Matt Greenhalgh wrote the 2017 Paul McGuigan film, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell and Julie Walters.
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Matt Greenhalgh was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Matt Greenhalgh is married to British television producer Nicola Shindler, with whom he has two daughters and a son.