Paul Abbott

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Abbott
Occupation	TV Producer
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1960(1960-02-22)
Age	64
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Paul Abbott Biography

Paul Abbott is one of the most popular and richest TV Producer who was born on February 22, 1960 in England, England, United Kingdom. Producer and writer of television who created the original UK version of the series Shameless and is credited as the US version as well. He has also created acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and State of Play.

Emmy Rossum starred on the US version of the series he created, Shameless.

Age 13 he was raped by a stranger, leading to him jumping from the roof of a multi-story car park in an attempt to commit suicide. Two years later after another suicide attempt he was sectioned into an adult mental hospital for a short while, later becoming a voluntary patient. On his release, he was taken into foster care and placed with a much more settled working-class family than his own, where having both adults in steady employment was a new experience for Abbott, as was their television and car. At the same time he began attending a local Sixth Form College and started attending meetings of the Burnley Writers’ Circle after seeing their advert in the local public library. Abbott enrolled at Manchester University in 1980 to study Psychology but decided to leave to concentrate on writing when a radio play was accepted by the BBC.

He worked on Coronation Street for the next eight years as a story editor and from 1989 as a writer. He also worked on other programmes for Granada. In 1988, he co-wrote his first televised drama script, a one-off play for the Dramarama anthology, with fellow Coronation Street writer Kay Mellor. The same year, he and Mellor co-created the children’s medical drama Children’s Ward, which ran for many years—Abbott regularly contributed scripts until 1992, then returned briefly to the show in 1996.

He grew up with seven brothers and sisters, not including him.

Paul Abbott Net Worth

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

He grew up in a dysfunctional family, much like the family he created for Shameless, and landed in a mental hospital following a failed suicide attempt.

He has won Two British Academy of Film and Television Awards for his series Cracker and Clocking Off.

Paul Abbott (born 22 February 1960) is an English television screenwriter and producer. Abbott has become one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today, following his work on many popular series, including Coronation Street, Cracker and Shameless, the last of which he created. He is also responsible for the creation of some of the most highly acclaimed television dramas of the 1990s and 2000s, including Reckless and Touching Evil for ITV and Clocking Off and State of Play for the BBC.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Paul Abbott Dating?

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In early 2004, Channel 4 screened Shameless, a new Abbott series very loosely based on his experiences and family life growing up in Burnley, although the action of the programme itself was changed to Manchester in the present day. At the 2006 British Academy Television Awards, he was given the honorary Dennis Potter Award for Outstanding Writing in Television, and in July of the same year Radio Times magazine placed him at No. 5 in a poll of industry professionals to find The Most Powerful People in Television Drama. Abbott was the highest-placed writer on the list, those above him being actors and executives.

Facts & Trivia

Paul Ranked on the list of most popular TV Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Paul Abbott celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.

In July 2006, it was announced that the University of Salford had appointed Abbott as a visiting professor, and in the same month Manchester Metropolitan University awarded him with an honorary doctorate. Abbott’s November 2006 lecture at Salford entitled “The 21st Century Box” explored how media is changing and provided ‘first aid for British television makers’. Attendees included the Mayor and Mayoress of Salford. In 2013 Dr Beth Johnson (University of Leeds) published the first book-length academic study of Abbott’s work (with Manchester University Press). In 2015 Abbott was awarded an honorary doctorate from Keele University. The first series of Abbott’s latest television drama, a police procedural entitled No Offence aired on Channel 4 beginning in May 2015.

What did Paul Abbott write?

Paul Abbott
Occupation| Screenwriter, television producer
Nationality| British
Period| 1982–present
Notable works| Touching Evil (1997–99) Clocking Off (2000–2003) State of Play (2003) Shameless (UK) (2004–2013) Shameless (US) (2011–2021) Hit & Miss (2012) No Offence (2015–2018)

How old is Paul Abbott?

62 years (February 22, 1960)

Is Wolfe manic depressive?

In fact, speaking to the Guardian recently Abbott admitted, “Every character I write has me in them.” One of Abbott’s key aims with Wolfe was to shed more light on bipolar affective disorder, a condition the central character lives with. “I’m bipolar and Wolfe’s manic episodes are like mine ,” Abbott told the Guardian.

Is Shameless based on a true story?

Nope, it’s not. The Gallagher family isn’t a real family — well, the one in the show at least.

Does Wolfe have bipolar?

Ceesay stars as the title character Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a leading forensic scientist with bipolar disorder and a penchant for rule-breaking, who balances his rather grisly day job with a somewhat troubled home life.