Peter Morgan (screenwriter)

Peter Morgan CBE
Morgan at a Hereafter press conference, 2010
Born	Peter Julian Robin Morgan (1963-04-10) 10 April 1963 (age 53) London, England, UK
Occupation	Screenwriter, playwright
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Leeds
Period	1988–present
Genre	Comedy, drama, historical fiction
Notable works	The Queen Frost/Nixon Rush The Crown
Spouse	Lila Schwarzenberg (m. 1997–2014)
Children	5

Peter Julian Robin Morgan CBE (born 10 April 1963) is a British film writer and playwright. Morgan is best known for writing the historical films and plays The Queen, Frost/Nixon, The Damned United and Rush. He is the creator of Netflix's drama series The Crown.

In 2008, Morgan was ranked number 28 in The Telegraph's list of "The 100 most powerful people in British culture". In February 2017, he will be awarded a British Film Institute Fellowship (BFI).

Morgan was born in Wimbledon, London. His mother, Inga (née Bojcek), was a Catholic Pole who fled the Soviets, and his father, Arthur Morgenthau, was a German Jew who fled the Nazis, arriving in London in 1933. His father died when Morgan was nine years old. Morgan attended boarding school at Downside School, Somerset, and gained a degree in Fine Art from the University of Leeds.

Morgan wrote television scripts during the 1990s, including an episode of Rik Mayall Presents... and the Comedy Premiere The Chest. He wrote the screenplay to the romantic comedy Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998) and had some success with the TV series The Jury (2002). In 2003, Morgan broke through with The Deal, a television drama about the power-sharing deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that was struck in the Granita restaurant in London in 1994.