Jack Thorne

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jack Thorne
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Dec 6, 1978(1978-12-06)
Age	46
Birthplace	Bristol
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Bristol
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jack Thorne Biography

Jack Thorne is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on December 6, 1978 in Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. Jack Thorne (born 6 December 1978) is an English screenwriter and playwright. Born in Bristol, England, he has written for radio, theatre and film. Thorne began his TV career writing on Shameless and Skins, before writing Cast Offs in

2009. He has since created the shows Glue, The Last Panthers, and Kiri. He has won five BAFTA awards: Best Mini-Series for This is England ’88, Best Drama Series for The Fades, Best Single for Don’t Take My Baby, Best Serial for This is England ’90 and Best Original Series for National Treasure.

Thorne’s first film The Scouting Book for Boys was released in 2009, it won him Best Newcomer at the London Film Festival. The jury said, “Jack Thorne is a poetic writer with an end-of-the-world imagination and a real gift for story-telling.”. Thorne has been commissioned to write feature films for producers both sides of the Atlantic, with credits including War Book starring Sophie Okonedo which Tom Harper directed, and A Long Way Down starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Aaron Paul (directed by Pascal Chaumeil) based on the novel by Nick Hornby.

In 2011 he participated in the Bush Theatre’s project Sixty Six Books, for which he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.

In 2012, People Snogging in Public Places was produced and broadcast by France-Culture (in the Fictions / Drôles de drames slot) under the French title of Regarder passer les trains (translator: Jacqueline Chnéour).

Thorne has written four plays for radio; an adaptation of When You Cure Me (BBC Radio 3, 2006), Left at the Angel (BBC Radio 4, 2007), an adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (co-written with Alex Bulmer, BBC Radio 4, 2009) and People Snogging in Public Places (BBC Radio 3, 2009). The latter won him the Sony Radio Academy Awards Gold for Best Drama 2010. The judges described it “as a wonderfully written and performed, highly original piece of radio drama in which the production perfectly mirrored the subject. Painful and funny, it was a bold exciting listen.” A Summer Night (BBC Radio 3, 2011) was Thorne’s response to the 2011 London riots, transmitted live as part of the Free Thinking festival.

Jack Thorne Net Worth

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

Thorne’s plays for stage include When You Cure Me (Bush Theatre, 2005), Fanny and Faggot (Finborough Theatre and tour 2007), Stacy (Arcola Theatre and Trafalgar Studios, 2007), Burying Your Brother in the Pavement (Royal National Theatre Connections Festival 2008), 2 May 1997 (Bush Theatre 2009), Bunny (Underbelly and tour 2010) which won a Fringe First at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival and Hope (Royal Court Theatre, 2014). He also collaborated on Greenland (2011) with Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Matt Charman at the National Theatre.

Thorne was educated at St. Bartholomew’s School, Newbury, Berkshire. He matriculated in 1998 at Pembroke College, Cambridge.. He was forced to ‘degrade’ – drop out to return at a later date – due to ill-health in his third year but returned to finish his studies and graduated with lower second- class honours in 2002.

Thorne has written for the TV shows Skins and Shameless. He co-created Cast- offs ), and has co-written This Is England ’86, This Is England ’88, and This Is England ’90 with Shane Meadows. In August 2010, BBC Three announced Thorne would be writing a 60-minute, six episode supernatural drama for the channel called Touch, later re-titled The Fades. In 2012, he won BAFTA awards for both drama series (The Fades) and serial (This Is England ’88). In 2014 the Thorne’s original rural teen murder drama Glue premiered on E4 and the show was nominated Best Multichannel Programme and the 2015 Broadcast Awards. In autumn of 2015 This Is England ’90 transmitted on Channel 4 and earned Thorne a Best Series Award at the Jameson Empire Awards 2016 and the BAFTA for Best- Mini Series in 2016. Next, the pan-European diamond heist thriller for Sky Atlantic The Last Panthers, which aired in the UK in September 2015 was BAFTA nominated for Best Drama Series. To round up a hat-trick of nominations at the 2016 BAFTA TV Awards Thorne’s BBC 3 single Don’t Take My Baby was nominated and went on to win the BAFTA for Best Single Drama.

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Who is Jack Thorne Dating?

According to our records, Jack Thorne married to Rachel Mason. As of December 1, 2023, Jack Thorne’s is not dating anyone.

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Thorne’s Channel 4 drama National Treasure started on 20 September 2016. In April 2016 it was announced that Thorne would be adapting Philip Pullman’s epic trilogy His Dark Materials for BBC One.

Facts & Trivia

Jack Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jack Thorne celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

In 2017, it was announced that Thorne will write the Damien Chazelle musical drama Netflix series The Eddy.

Top Facts about Jack Thorne

1. Jack Thorne is an English screenwriter and playwright.
2. He was born on December 6, 1978 in Bristol, England.
3. Thorne has won multiple awards for his work.
4. He wrote the script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
5. Thorne also created the TV series The Last Panthers.
6. His play Let The Right One In premiered in London in 2013.
7. Thorne co-wrote the screenplay for Wonder with Stephen Chbosky.
8. He has written for popular TV shows like Skins and Shameless.
9. Thorne is a patron of several theatre companies and charities.
10. He studied at Cambridge University before pursuing writing full-time.

What has Jack Thorne written?

He has since written disabled dramas The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Spastic King, Cast Offs, The Solid Life of Sugar Water, Don’t Take My Baby, and CripTales , and has become a patron of the Graeae Theatre Company.

When was Jack Thorne born?

December 6, 1978 (age 43 years)

Did JK Rowling wrote the cursed child?

Authors

Which number is Harry Potter and the cursed child?

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, the play was scripted by Jack and directed by John.

Who said those we love never truly leave us?

“Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. Paint and memory and love.” – Albus Dumbledore We’re excited to learn more about our favorite Cursed Child portrait in #FantasticBeasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in theaters April 15, 2022.