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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Little Dracula's First Bite
- Origins of Elected Strongmen
- Only your calamity
- Muse Is Real
- Land Sea
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Film & TV
Directing · London, England, UK
Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. He directed the period drama adaptations Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), the Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and Darkest Hour (2017). He also directed the historical drama television series Mussolini: Son of the Century (2025). Description…
Known for
- Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean — Self2026
- M - Il Figlio del secolo | Il dietro le quinte — himself2025
- Directors on Directors — Self2021
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2015
- HBO First Look — Self1992
- Poison Ivy — Jerry Disbro1985
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1972
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,052
- Total plays
- 5,990
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,935x
- PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet
· 2011 · cited 15,829x
- Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function
· 1963 · cited 14,031x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,766x
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Key facts
- Born
- Joseph Wright , ( 1972-08-25 ) 25 August 1972 (age 53) , London , England
- Alma mater
- Central Saint Martins
- Occupations
- Film director, television director, film producer
- Years active
- 1997–present
- Spouse
- Anoushka Shankar ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2010 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2019 )
- Partner s
- Haley Bennett , (2017–present)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Joe Wright.jpg
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- Commons category
- Joe Wright
- date of birth
- 1972-08-25
- name in native language
- Joe Wright
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
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Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English filmmaker. He began his career directing music videos and television series, before making his feature directorial debut with Pride & Prejudice (2005), based on the Jane Austen novel. His subsequent works include the period drama adaptations Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), the Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and the Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour (2017). He also directed the historical drama television series Mussolini: Son of the Century (2025).
Wright has been nominated for six BAFTA Film Awards and won Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Pride & Prejudice. He also won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Series for the BBC Television serial Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003), and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Atonement.