Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Sep 23, 1959(1959-09-23)
Age	65
Birthplace	Rainhill
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Frank Cottrell-Boyce Biography

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on September 23, 1959 in Rainhill, England, United Kingdom.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959) is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children’s fiction and for his collaborations with film director Danny Boyle. He has achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children’s classic by Ian Fleming.

In addition to original scripts, Cottrell-Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children’s fiction. His first novel Millions was based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name; it was published by Macmillan in 2004. Cottrell-Boyce won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising it as the year’s best children’s book published in the U.K. His next novel Framed, he made the shortlist for both the Carnegie and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. He adapted it as a screenplay for a 2009 BBC television film. He made the Carnegie shortlist again for Cosmic (2008). In 2011, he was commissioned to write a sequel to the Ian Fleming children’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was published in October 2011 as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again In addition to Coronation Street, he wrote many episodes of the soap opera Brookside, as well as its spin-off Damon and Debbie.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce Net Worth

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

Cottrell-Boyce was born in 1959 in Rainhill, to a Catholic family. He attended St Bartholomew’s Primary School in Rainhill and West Park Grammar School.

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Who is Frank Cottrell-Boyce Dating?

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Cottrell-Boyce was the writer of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, whose storyline he based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He collaborated with director Danny Boyle and other members of the creative team, including designer Mark Tildesley, in the development of the story and themes, and wrote “short documents that told the story of each segment” to provide context for choreographers, builders and other participants. He also wrote the brochure, the stadium announcements and the media guide for presenter Huw Edwards.

Facts & Trivia

Dimitri Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Frank Cottrell- Boyce celebrates birthday on September 23 of every year.

In January 2018, he was on the victorious Keble College, Oxford University Challenge “famous alumni” team; he got almost all of the points scored by Keble (total score 240) and was lionized on social media as a consequence; Reading University scored 0 in that game, thus making television history.

What is Frank Cottrell Boyce most known for?

Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959) is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children’s fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom.

What did Frank Cottrell Boyce write?

His novel The Unforgotten Coat won the 2012 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. On winning the prize Frank Cottrell Boyce said: “It would be amazing to win this award with any book I’d written but it is a special joy to win it with The Unforgotten Coat, which started life not as a published book at all, but as a gift.

How old is Frank Cottrell Boyce?

62 years (September 23, 1959)

Where did Frank Cottrell Boyce go to school?

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