14 Facts About Peter Kosminsky

Peter Kosminsky was born on 21 April 1956 and is a British writer, director and producer.

Peter Kosminsky has directed Hollywood movies such as White Oleander and television films like Warriors, The Government Inspector, The Promise, Wolf Hall and The State.

Peter Kosminsky was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and the University of Oxford, where he studied chemistry under John Danby of Worcester College, Oxford and was elected JCR President.

Peter Kosminsky spent much of his time at the university involved in student theatre, where he was treasurer of the Oxford University Dramatic Society.

Peter Kosminsky produced Twelfth Night for the OUDS which toured to northern France and starred a young Hugh Grant.

On finishing his training in 1982, Peter Kosminsky became a script editor in the BBC Plays Department but was fired within three months of starting work.

In 1990, Peter Kosminsky began work as a drama director, directing the four-hour ITV drama Shoot To Kill, written by Mick Eaton and starring Jack Shepherd, for Yorkshire Television.

In 1995, Peter Kosminsky was fired from YTV by incoming managing director Bruce Gyngell and set up his own company, Stonehenge Films Ltd, to act as a vehicle for his television dramas.

In July 2003, Peter Kosminsky began his collaboration with Channel 4 and David Aukin's Daybreak Pictures.

Aukin encouraged Peter Kosminsky to write the films he directed and three programmes resulted.

Peter Kosminsky has been a member of the Policy Council of Liberty, the campaigner for human rights, a past Council member of BAFTA, a Fellow of the Royal Television Society, a founding board member of Directors UK, and a winner of the BAFTA Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution to TV.

In 2009 Peter Kosminsky was awarded an honorary doctorate in Arts from Bournemouth University and profiled on The South Bank Show by Melvyn Bragg.

In January 2012, Peter Kosminsky was elected by BFI members to the Board of Governors of the British Film Institute.

On 8 May 2016, after Wolf Hall won Best Drama Series at the 2016 British Academy Television Awards, Peter Kosminsky, who directed the show, made a speech about defending the BBC and Channel 4 from government interference.