For other uses, see Joe Wright (disambiguation).
Joe Wright (born 1972) is an BAFTA-winning English film director best known for 2005's Pride and Prejudice.
Wright was born in London, where his parents founded the Little Angel Theater, a puppet theatre in Islington.
Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings acting in a drama club. Being dyslexic, he left school without any GCSEs. On the strength of his paintings and Super 8 films, he gained admitance to an art school where he studied fine art and film. In his last year, he received a scholarship to make a short film for the BBC that won some awards. On the success of the short, he was offered the script for the serial Nature Boy with Callum Keith Rennie. He followed this up with the serials Bodily Harm with Timothy Spall, and the highly acclaimed Charles II: The Power and the Passion with Rufus Sewell which won the BAFTA for Best Drama Serial.
In 2005 he made the transition to feature films with the critically acclaimed Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley. The film received numerous accolades including 4 Academy Award nominations (including best actress), 6 BAFTA nominations (Wright won the BAFTA for most promising newcomer) and a host of other nominations and wins.
On a personal note, he's currently dating Rosamund Pike, who co-starred in this film.
Wright's next feature is an adaptation Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan's novel Atonement (film) which will be released in 2007. The film will reunite Wright with Keira Knightley and also stars James McAvoy.
He is also attached to a remake of Gaslight.
