Nick Moorcroft
| Nick Moorcroft | |
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| Born | Chelmsford, Essex, England |
| Occupation | Writer, producer, actor. |
| Nationality | English |
| Years active | 2002 –present |
| Partner | Meg Leonard |
| Children | 2 |
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Nick Moorcroft (born 22 December 1978 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English screenwriter and film producer.
Moorcroft was born in Chelmsford, Essex, in 1978. In an interview with Dalya Alberge, a journalist from The Observer, he revealed he was expelled from school when he was fourteen. He was subsequently home-schooled by the local council until he was accepted by Rainsford School, which was later placed in special measures and closed down by the government. He left school with no qualifications and was frequently in trouble with the police. His mother encouraged him to audition for the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art where he won a scholarship to study at the prestigious drama school before embarking on a career as a screenwriter and film producer.
In 2004 he sold his first spec script to Barnaby Thompson's Fragile Films. The period comedy called Burke & Hare is about two Irish serial killers who sold the corpses of their 17 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. In Variety, an entertainment industry newspaper, the article "The 'Brit List' circulates British film community" by film journalist Adam Dawtrey, reported that the screenplay was included on the Brit List: 2007, which lists the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland.
In 2006 Moorcroft wrote the screenplay for St Trinian's, a film based on the cartoons by British cartoonist, Ronald Searle, for Ealing Studios. It was reported in Screen International that the schoolgirl comedy, based on the cartoons by Ronald Searle, had a budget of $13m (£6.5m) and took $26m (£13m) at the UK box office alone, making it the then third most successful independent British film, behind Four Weddings and a Funeral and Trainspotting.
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