Joe Wright

Biography

Born: 1972 in London, England, UK Joe Wright is a 2 time BAFTA-winning, 2 time Golden Globe-nominated English film director best known for 2005's Pride and Prejudice and 2007's Atonement. Wright was born in London, where his parents founded the Little Angel Theater, 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. On the strength of his paintings and Super 8 films, he gained admittance to an art school where he studied fine art and film. In his last year, 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 for Best Drama Serial. Wright is currently engaged to actress Rosamund Pike, whom he met when she played Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice.