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      Jez Butterworth

      Jez Butterworth

      Highest Rated: 92% Ford v Ferrari (2019)

      Lowest Rated: 15% The Last Legion (2007)

      Birthday: Not Available

      Birthplace: London, England, UK

      With parallel careers on the screen and the stage, Jez Butterworth was one of the most prolific writers of his generation. Born in London in 1969, Butterworth fell in love with theater as a teenager watching his older brother Tom act in a Cambridge University production of Brian Friel's "Translations." Butterworth would eventually attend Cambridge himself. He spent his time there honing his craft as a writer and only a few years after graduating, he premiered his first play "Mojo" at the Royal Court Theatre. The breakout production garnered him enough buzz that he was able to adapt and direct a film version of the play in 1997. His next play "Birthday Girl" premiered at the Royal Court in 2001 and followed a similar track, this time with mega-star Nicole Kidman in the leading role. With his reputation firmly established, Butterworth continued to mount successful new plays over the coming years, earning particular praise for 2009's "Jerusalem," which moved to Broadway the following year. Meanwhile, Butterworth was also working as a screenwriter, penning the scripts for major films like 2010's political thriller "Fair Game" (2010). His 2012 play "The River" earned rave reviews and made the jump to Broadway like his previous work, just as Butterworth was contributing to the screenplays for "Edge of Tomorrow" (2014), "Black Mass" (2015), and "Spectre" (2015). His next play, "The Ferryman," a story set during "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland, premiered at the Royal Court in 2017 and proved his most highly praised work to date, successfully moving to Broadway the following year. At the same time that "The Ferryman" was proving such a success, Butterworth was creating the historical TV series "Britannia" (Amazon, 2017-), penning several episodes himself. In 2019, he collaborated with brother John-Henry as well as Jason Keller and James Mangold on the script for the film "Ford v Ferrari" (2019).

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      Jez Butterworth at arrivals for 73rd Annual Tony Awards - Part 2, Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center, New York, NY June 9, 2019. Photo By: Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      70% 88% Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Screenwriter $174.5M 2023
      39% 48% Flag Day Screenwriter $423.4K 2021
      92% 98% Ford v Ferrari Screenwriter $117.6M 2019
      63% 61% Spectre Screenwriter $200.1M 2015
      73% 68% Black Mass Screenwriter $62.6M 2015
      81% 68% Get On Up Screenwriter,
      Executive Producer
      $30.5M 2014
      91% 90% Edge of Tomorrow Screenwriter $100.2M 2014
      79% 65% Fair Game Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $9.5M 2010
      15% 34% The Last Legion Writer $5.9M 2007
      59% 39% Birthday Girl Director,
      Writer
      $4.9M 2001
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Mojo Director - 1997

      TV

      Credit
      92% 77% Britannia Writer 2020 2022
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Mystery! Unknown (Character) 1996