Chris Lang

Chris Lang
Publicity photo of Lang taken in 2014.
Born	1961 (age 55–56) Peckham, London, England
Occupation	Screenwriter, television producer
Nationality	British
Period	1993–present
Notable works	Amnesia (2004) Torn (2007) A Mother's Son (2012) Undeniable (2014) Unforgotten (2015—)

Chris Lang (born 1961) is a British television writer, actor and producer.

Lang has written for many British television series but is best known as the writer, creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Unforgotten. The series starred Nicola Walker, Trevor Eve, Sir Tom Courtenay, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Bernard Hill.^[8] and was first broadcast in Autumn 2015. In November 2015, ITV announced it would be returning for a second series, which began airing in January 2017.

He has written a number of British television series including Undeniable starring Peter Firth and Claire Goose, (April 2014); A Mother's Son starring Hermione Norris, Paul McGann and Martin Clunes (September 2012) which was nominated for a Broadcast Award, and adapted as a single film for TF1 in France, as Tu Es Mon Fils (April 2015) starring Anne Marivin; and Torn, starring Holly Aird and Nicola Walker, which was nominated for an RTS award.

Lang began his career as a television writer with The Bill, for which he wrote many episodes, and for which he won a Writer's Guild award. He went on to write episodes for shows including Casualty, Soldier Soldier, The Knock, Reach for the Moon, The Palace, POW, Primeval, Hustle and most recently The Tunnel for Sky Atlantic. In 2001, he wrote and created his first original drama series The Glass, which starred John Thaw and Sarah Lancashire. Since then his original dramas have included Sirens, Unconditional Love, Amnesia (which was nominated for an Edgar Award),Lawless, and The Reckoning.