Joe Wright (born 1972) is a three time BAFTA-winning, Golden Globe-nominated English film director best known for 2005's Pride and Prejudice and 2007's Atonement.
[>>]Source: WikipediaJoe Wright (born 1972) is a three time BAFTA-winning, Golden Globe-nominated English film director best known for 2005's Pride and Prejudice and 2007's Atonement.
Early life and career
Wright was born in London, where his parents 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. Being dyslexic, he left school without any GCSEs.
He began his career working at his parents 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 some awards . On the success of the short, he was offered the script for the serial Nature Boy with Callum Keith Rennie. 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.
During the 90s he worked at Oil Factory, a world class music video production company based in Caledonian Road, Kings Cross. He worked on a variety of productions in numerous roles, He was a very good casting director. Here he was able to get the opportunity to direct some music videos. Alongside this, particularly on the strength of his short film work, he was also developing The End, his second short film.
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