“The films of which I'm most proud
I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.” – Peter
Morgan
Born in England on this date in
1963, Morgan is best known for his historical films and plays The Queen and Frost/Nixon, and
for creating Netflix’s wildly successful series The Crown. He
also co-wrote the screenplay for the award-winning movie The Last King
of Scotland.
The son of immigrants who fled to
Great Britain to escape the Nazis (his father) and Soviet repression (his
mother), he started writing while at the University of Leeds. His big
breakthrough came with The Queen, for which he won a Golden Globe
and the lead actor Helen Mirren an Academy Award. Since then,
everything he’s written has been successful and influential, for which he was honored with the Commander of the Order of the
British Empire (CBE) for services to drama.
“As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every
fork in the road,” he said. “But the audience will reject it if you make
the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way
that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when
you're being cynical or schematic.”
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