Joe Wright
Joe Wright was born in London on August 25th, 1972 and is the Director. At the age of 51, Joe Wright biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 51 years old, Joe Wright physical status not available right now. We will update Joe Wright's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.
Joseph Wright (born 1972) is an English film producer.
Pride & Prejudice (2005), the romantic war drama Atonement (2007), Hanna (2011), Peter Pan's adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012), and The Darkest Hour (2017), a political drama set during World War II.
Personal life
Wright began a friendship with actress Rosamund Pike after meeting on the set of Pride & Prejudice. They were active from 2007 to 2008.
Wright was married to sitarist Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar's daughter and half-sister of Norah Jones from 2010 to 2019. They have two sons: Zubin Shankar Wright, who was born in February 2011, and Mohan Shankar Wright, who was born in February 2015. They divorced in December 2017 after a judge found that Wright had committed adultery and that his wife was “intolerable.”
Wright has been in a relationship with American actress Haley Bennett since 2017. Virginia Willow, the couple's daughter, was born in Brooklyn Heights on December 27, 2018. The family lives in Bruton, Somerset, in the United Kingdom, as of 2019.
Early life and career
Wright had a long fascination with the arts, especially painting. He will film on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings as a member of a drama club. Wright is dyslexic. He went to Islington Green Secondary School but was left without a GCSE.
He began his work as a puppet actor in Islington, The Little Angel Theatre. He also took classes at the Anna Scher Theatre School and worked well on stage and film. He attended an art foundation at Camberwell College of Arts before embarking on a degree in fine art and film at Central St Martins, where he was taught by Malcolm Le Grice and Vera Neubauer. He was awarded a grant to make a short film for the BBC that gained numerous accolades in his last year of studies.
He worked at Oil Factory, a music video production firm based in Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, during the 1990s. He appeared in a variety of productions, including casting director. He was able to produce some music videos here. In addition to this, he was also producing The End, his second short film, mainly due to the strength of his short film work. During this decade, Wright served part-time as a roadie for Vegetable Vision, which produced graphics for a number of electronic music bands, including Chemical Brothers, Darren Emerson, Underworld, and Andrew Weatherall. He cites a sense of the UK rave scene as a source of inspiration for his art.
On the success of his first short film, he was given the script for the serial Nature Boy (2000). He continued with the serials Bodily Harm (2002) with Timothy Spall and the critically acclaimed Charles II: The Life and Passion (2004), which received the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Serial.