Joe Wright was born in London on August 25, 1972. His parents were the founders of the Islington Maly Theatre Angel.
Since childhood, Wright gravitated to art in all its manifestations - he loved good music, was fond of painting, dreamed of making films on his own camera. And of course, he was attracted to the theater. Joe’s career began with his parents’ puppet theater. Enrolled after school in the Theatre School, he successfully played on stage. While in his final year, Wright received a scholarship
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Joe Wright was born in London on August 25, 1972. His parents were the founders of the Islington Maly Theatre Angel.
Since childhood, Wright gravitated to art in all its manifestations - he loved good music, was fond of painting, dreamed of making films on his own camera. And of course, he was attracted to the theater. Joe’s career began with his parents’ puppet theater. Enrolled after school in the Theatre School, he successfully played on stage.
While in his final year, Wright received a scholarship and spent it on his first short film for the BBC, which won several awards. Later, the film world praised him as a talented screenwriter for the plot for the film “Nature Boy”, which received the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series.
From 1998 to 2004, Wright made mostly romantic costume films. Critics praised him for the films “Cotton of the Crocodile”, “The End”, “Bob and Rose”.
"The Last King" And they wrote that this director was created to create talented melodramas from the life of past centuries.
In 2005, Joe released a film adaptation of the novel of the same name, Pride and Prejudice, for which he received a BAFTA award. In total, Joe has fifteen awards and various nominations.
In 2011, the film “Hannah” was released. Wright, apparently, got tired of costume films and decided to surprise the viewer with a cool action movie, which, admittedly, he quite succeeded.
But the romanticism of the director is truly ineradicable, as fans of his talent in the near future are looking forward to the film adaptation of Anna Karenina and Andersensov’s The Little Mermaid.
In 2005, Joe had a whirlwind romance with actress Rosamund Pike, but the pair did not last a year. Wright is married to Anushka Shankar, on February 22, 2011, the newlyweds gave birth to their son Zubin.