Sally Anne Wainwright was born on 1963 and is an English television writer, producer, and director from Yorkshire.
23 Facts About Sally Wainwright
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Early in her career, Wainwright worked as a playwright, and as a scriptwriter on the long-running radio serial drama The Archers.
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Sally Wainwright won the Royal Television Society's Writer of the Year Award for the 2009 mini-series Unforgiven.
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Sally Wainwright is the creator of the 2019 HBO and BBC One television series Gentleman Jack starring Suranne Jones as Anne Lister and Sophie Rundle as Ann Walker.
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Sally Wainwright was brought up in Sowerby Bridge, where she attended Triangle Church of England Primary School and Sowerby Bridge High School.
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Sally Wainwright attended the University of York, reading English and Related Literature.
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Sally Wainwright said that she had always wanted to write, and had started writing when she was young, from the time she was nine years old, and wanted to write for Coronation Street.
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Sally Wainwright said that when she was 16 years old in 1980 she saw a play called Bastard Angel by playwright Barrie Keeffe at the Royal Shakespeare Company and was deeply interested in its short sentences and naturalistic approach to dialogue.
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Sally Wainwright has since said that working on continuing drama was "a great education in discipline and a lesson that great stories are hard work".
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Sally Wainwright was mentored by Kay Mellor, who encouraged her to stop writing for soaps and to concentrate instead on original work.
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Sally Wainwright created the TV series At Home with the Braithwaites about a woman who had secretly won the lottery.
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Sally Wainwright drew on her own experiences in scripting the series.
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Sally Wainwright won the 2009 Writer of the Year Award given by the RTS in 2009 for Unforgiven, which took several awards including best TV series.
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Sally Wainwright says that her strong yet flawed female characters are "almost real" to her and arrive "fully formed" in her imagination.
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Sally Wainwright based the plot of her series Last Tango in Halifax on the story of her mother, who was widowed in 2001.
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The former was voted by BAFTA to be best series in 2012 and Sally Wainwright was given the award for best writer.
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Happy Valley, which was shot in Yorkshire's upper Upper Calder Valley and Hebden Bridge, stars Sarah Lancashire, whom Sally Wainwright had in mind as she wrote the role.
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Sally Wainwright made her directorial debut with episode 4 of the first series.
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Sally Wainwright had previously said that she was willing to write a third series of Happy Valley, but had commitments to work on projects, and in 2016 producer Nicola Shindler indicated that the third series would not air until 2018 at the earliest.
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In 2016, Sally Wainwright was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.
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Sally Wainwright wrote and directed a two-hour drama special for BBC One entitled To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters, which aired on BBC One in 2016 and in the US in 2017.
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Sally Wainwright was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to writing and television.
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Sally Wainwright has said that she is potentially autistic and that social interaction is quite painful for her.