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Joe Wright

Joe Wright

Highest Rated: 91% Locke (2013)

Lowest Rated: 25% The Woman in the Window (2021)

Birthday: Aug 25, 1972

Birthplace: London, England, UK

An English director adept in adapting dramatic literature, Joe Wright also demonstrated a facility with more modern day fare that was far removed from the period costume dramas for which he had first gained notoriety. Wright first broke out in England with his critically-acclaimed and award-nominated take on the Jane Austen classic, "Pride and Prejudice" (2005), starring his soon-to-be muse, Keira Knightley. Praised for his insistence on a sense of movement and realism in a genre long-considered stuffy and reserved, Wright continued his success in adapting period source material with "Atonement" (2007), a sweeping epic starring Knightley and based on the award-winning novel by British contemporary Ian McEwan. Two contemporary-set projects followed - the based-on-fact tale of music and redemption "The Soloist" (2009), starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx, and the violent fairy tale thriller "Hanna" (2011), with young Saoirse Ronan in the title role. He paired with Knightley for the third time to bring Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's sweeping novel "Anna Karenina" (2012) to life in an intoxicatingly extravagant production. One of the more technically adventurous and unpredictable young directors of his generation, Wright continued to seek out new challenges, for both audiences and himself as a filmmaker.

Filmography

Movies

Credit
81% 84% Widow Clicquot Producer $1.0M 2023
85% 86% Cyrano Director $3.9M 2021
25% 33% The Woman in the Window Director - 2021
88% 70% Swallow Executive Producer $31.3K 2019
84% 82% Darkest Hour Director $56.3M 2017
26% 40% Pan Director $35.1M 2015
91% 72% Locke Executive Producer $1.4M 2013
63% 50% Anna Karenina Director $12.8M 2012
72% 66% Hanna Director $40.2M 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lost Angels Executive Producer - 2010
56% 56% The Soloist Director $31.7M 2009
83% 80% Atonement Director $50.9M 2007
87% 89% Pride & Prejudice Director $38.4M 2005
No Score Yet 88% The Last King Director - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nature Boy Director - 2000

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter Guest 2018
83% 80% Black Mirror Director 2016