Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan (* 1968 ) is a British playwright and screenwriter .

Life

Straughan grew up in Gateshead , in north east England. He completed an English degree at Newcastle University and was initially active as a musician. In the 1990s he wrote several plays and radio plays for the radio. He has also worked as a screenwriter since the early 2000s. Here he worked closely with the screenwriter Bridget O'Connor , who died in September 2010. The two had been married since 2008. They had a child together.

In 2011 he directed his first short film with Gee Gee .

Together, he and O'Connor were nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Adapted Screenplay in 2012 for their screenplay for the novel Dame, König, As, Spion . In the same year they won the British Academy Film Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and were also recognized at the Online Film Critics Society Awards .

Filmography (selection)

• 2006: Sixty Six
• 2007: Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
• 2008: New York for Beginners (How to Lose Friends & Alienate People)
• 2009: The Men Who Stare at Goats (The Men Who Stare at Goats)
• 2011: An Open Account (The Debt)
• 2011: Queen, King, As, Spy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
• 2014: Frank
• 2015: Wolf Hall (miniseries, six episodes)
• 2015: Die Wahlkampfin (Our Brand Is Crisis)
• 2017: Snowman (The Snowman)
• 2019: The Goldfinch (The Goldfinch)

Web links

• Peter Straughan in the Internet Movie Database (English)