Tom Harper
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Tom Harper (born 7 January 1980) is a British film and television director.
He is best known for his appearances on Wild Rose, Peaky Blinders, and the BBC TV mini-series War & Peace.
Early life and education
Harper grew up in a Quaker family. "Quakerism is credited with setting the tone in his attitudes toward pacifism and nonviolence."
Harper attended Acland Burghley School before embarking on to study at The University of Manchester.
Career
Harper's career began in short films. In 2006, he wrote and directed Cubs about urban fox hunting, which was nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Short Film category and received a BIFA.
Harper went on to direct a variety of film and television projects, including Misfits, The Scouting Book for Boys (2009), This Is England 86, Peaky Blinders (2013), and Angel of Death.
Harper teamed up with Jack Thorne, author of The Scouting Book for Boys, to produce War Book, which premiered at the London Film Festival and became the opening film of the International Festival of Film Rotterdam in 2014. The film received critical acclaim, with The List naming it as a "powerful, provocative, and essential piece of modern British cinema." Harper was also a producer on the film. War & Peace, starring Paul Dano, Lily James, and James Norton, is a British TV mini-series produced in 2016. The series received rave reviews and topped ratings. The series was nominated for six BAFTA Awards (including Best Drama Series) and Best Production Design.
Based on Phillip Meyer's best-selling book, Harper next directed the pilot episode of The Son for AMC. Pierce Brosnan took the lead after removing Sam Neill (with whom Harper previously served on Peaky Blinders) who was forced to resign for "personal reasons." In May 2017, the series was renewed for a second season.
Harper teamed up with Jack Thorne to produce "The Commuter," the third installment of Channel 4/Amazon Video anthology series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, starring Timothy Spall.
In the summer of 2017, Wild Rose, starring Jessie Buckley (with whom Harper had previously worked on War and Peace) and Julie Walters, written by Nicole Taylor, was shot in Glasgow, Scotland, and Nashville, USA. In Variety, Owen Gleiberman referred to it as "a happy-sad drama of starstruck fever that lifts you up and sweeps you along, touching you down in a puddle of well-earned tears."
The Aeronauts, based on James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell's historic 1862 flight, and starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, began their shoot in August 2018. Jack Thorne's fifth collaboration, wrote the script, and Harper and Todd Lieberman produced the film for Amazon Studios. The Aeronauts was the most watched movie on Amazon Prime until March 2020. Harper's decision to replace Henry Coxwell, one of the two key male, historical characters, by a fictional, female protagonist named "Amelia Wren" caused a controversy as well as a public demonstration by the Royal Society. The director defended his decision as a "political act of representation." "We need more strong, brilliant, and interesting female characters [in films], he told Time magazine. Anna Menta of the Decider said that the choice "makes all the backstory we learn about Amelia's deceased husband," which is revealed via flashback."