Steven Knight was born on 1 April 1959 and is a British screenwriter, film and television producer and director.
17 Facts About Steven Knight
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Steven Knight is the creator for BBC's Peaky Blinders and has written for Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives, See and Taboo.
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Steven Knight attended The Streetly School as a teenager, in Streetly, Walsall, in the West Midlands.
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Steven Knight then went on to study English at University College London where he is an Honorary Fellow.
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Steven Knight is best known for screenplays he wrote for the films Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises.
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Steven Knight wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film Closed Circuit, which was directed by John Crowley and which starred Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall.
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Steven Knight wrote a draft of a screenplay based on the book Shutter Island written by Dennis Lehane, but the draft that was used for the movie of the same name was written by Laeta Kalogridis.
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Recent films based on screenplays that Knight has written include The Hundred-Foot Journey directed by Lasse Hallstrom, based on the book of the same name by Richard C Morais, and starring Helen Mirren, Seventh Son, an adventure story starring Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harington and Jason Scott Lee, as well as the film Pawn Sacrifice, based on US chess champion Bobby Fischer, with Tobey Maguire playing Fischer in the film.
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Steven Knight wrote the screenplay of World War Z II.
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Steven Knight wrote the script for the 2021 dramedy Locked Down, about a couple attempting a high-stakes jewellery heist during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Steven Knight later wrote the script for the film Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales.
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In March 2023, it was reported that Steven Knight would write the screenplay for an upcoming Star Wars film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, replacing Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson.
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Steven Knight has directed several episodes of the TV series for which he frequently wrote, The Detectives.
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In 2022, Steven Knight was the co-director of the Opening Ceremony for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which took place on 28 July 2022.
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Steven Knight created the television series Peaky Blinders and has written for TV series including, BBC's Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives, Comedy Playhouse, Frankie's On.
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Steven Knight created and co-wrote A Christmas Carol, a dark adaptation of the Dickens story for BBC One in the UK and FX in the US, starring Guy Pearce as Scrooge and Andy Serkis as the Ghost of Christmas Past, as well as an adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations starring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham.
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Steven Knight was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to drama, entertainment and the community in Birmingham.