Joe Wright
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Wright at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting Pan
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25 August 1972 London, England |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Spouse(s) | Anoushka Shankar (m. 2010) |
| Children | Zubin Shankar Wright (b. 2011) Mohan Shankar Wright (b. 2015) |
| Relatives | Ravi Shankar (father-in-law), Norah Jones (sister-in-law) |
Joseph "Joe" Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director known for the romance film Pride & Prejudice (2005), the romantic drama war film Atonement (2007), the action thriller Hanna (2011), and his 2012 adaptation of the classic Anna Karenina. His most recent film, Pan, is a Peter Pan origin story.Darkest Hour, Wright's political drama about Winston Churchill, will be released in 2017.
Wright was born on 25 August 1972 in London, where his parents, John and Lyndie, founded the Little Angel Theatre, a puppet theatre in Islington. Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings acting in a drama club. Wright is dyslexic. He left school without any GCSEs.
He began his career working at his parents' puppet theatre. He also took classes at the Anna Scher Theatre School and acted professionally on stage and camera. He spent an art foundation year at Camberwell College of Arts, before taking a degree in fine art and film at Central St Martins. In his last year of studies he received a scholarship to make a short film for the BBC that won several awards. On the success of the short, he was offered the script for the serial Nature Boy. He followed this up with the serials Bodily Harm with Timothy Spall, and the highly acclaimed Charles II: The Power and The Passion with Rufus Sewell which won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Serial.
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