Alex Garland

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alex Garland
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	May 26, 1970(1970-05-26)
Age	54
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Alex Garland Biography

Alex Garland is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on May 26, 1970 in London, England, United Kingdom. Novelist turned screenwriter turned film producer and director whose directorial debut, Ex Machina, won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He wrote the screenplay for the film as well, and it earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His follow up directorial effort was Annihilation, and he previously wrote scripts for the films Never Let Me Go, Dredd and others.

He wrote the screenplays for the Danny Boyle-directed films 28 Days Later and Sunshine.

In 1996, Garland’s first novel, The Beach was published. The Beach is based upon Garland’s own travels across Europe and Thailand, it tells the story of a young English backpacker who discovers an unspoiled sea shore occupied by a community of like-minded backpackers. The novel is noted for its references to drug culture, sequences of hallucinations and unique depictions of excess and utopia, which have been commended by critics. The Beach was initially met with positive reviews, and with a spreading word of mouth response the novel grew into a cult classic. Garland would later speak of the overwhelming discomfort with the fame The Beach had allowed him to achieve, “I never felt comfortable with it (the novel).” The Beach has been translated into 25 different languages and sold close to 700,000 copies by the start of 1999. It was developed into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

In 1998, Garland followed up The Beach with The Tesseract, a non-linear narrative with several interwoven characters set in Manila, Philippines. The novel is characterized by a post-modernist narrative style and structure. It explores several themes such as love and violence through each character’s circumstance and context of surroundings as well as seemingly inconsequential actions and the repercussions of those actions on other characters. The Tesseract did not enjoy the critical or commercial success of The Beach, but it too was the subject of a film adaptation.

His father Nicholas was a political cartoonist, and his mother Caroline was a psychologist. He married and has two children with Paloma Baeza.

Alex Garland Net Worth

Alex Garland is one of the richest Screenwriter from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alex Garland 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from the University of Manchester. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach, a book which was adapted into a 2000 feature film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

He was an executive producer on 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to 28 Days Later. He co-wrote the video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, earning him a 2011 award from the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain.

Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English writer and filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel The Beach, which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. He subsequently received praise for the screenplays of the films 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2010), and Dredd (2012). He co-wrote the video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).

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Who is Alex Garland Dating?

According to our records, Alex Garland married to Paloma Baeza. As of December 1, 2023, Alex Garland’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2014, Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a science fiction film which explores the relationship between mankind and artificial intelligence. The film earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won three BIFA awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best British Independent Film. His second film, 2018’s Annihilation, based on the 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, was also a critical success. In 2020, he wrote and directed the FX on Hulu miniseries Devs.

Facts & Trivia

Alex Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Alex Garland celebrates birthday on May 26 of every year.

On 2 August 2019, Offerman confirmed that he had wrapped filming his scenes in Devs after six months of shooting.

How old is Alex Garland?

52 years (May 26, 1970)

What did Alex Garland direct?

Films directed

Who wrote the script for Ex Machina?

Alex Garland

Where was annihilation filmed?

Annihilation was filmed in England, around London and East Anglia. The film was hosted on the soundstages, location gardens, and the paddock tank at Pinewood Studios. Something mysterious called The Shimmer has arrived on Earth, expanding in a big area of the American southeast.

Is Alex Garland married?

Paloma Baeza