Richard Curtis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Curtis
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Nov 8, 1956(1956-11-08)
Age	68
Birthplace	Wellington
Country	New Zealand
Birth City	Wellington Region
Horoscope	Scorpio

Richard Curtis Biography

Richard Curtis is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on November 8, 1956 in Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand. Producer, writer, and director. He worked on films such as Notting Hill, Love Actually, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Bridget Jones.

He was the director of Love Actually with He directed the film Love Actually with Hugh Grant..

Curtis attended Papplewick School, Ascot, Berkshire (as did his younger brother Jamie). For a short period in the 1970s, Curtis lived in Warrington, Cheshire, where he attended Appleton Grammar School (now Bridgewater High School), before he won a scholarship to Harrow School, where, as head boy, he abolished fagging. He achieved a first-class Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. At the University of Oxford, Curtis met and began working with Rowan Atkinson, after they both joined the scriptwriting team of the Etceteras revue, part of the Experimental Theatre Club. He appeared in the company’s “After Eights” at the Oxford Playhouse in May 1976.

Collaborating with Rowan Atkinson in the Oxford Revue, he appeared alongside him at his breakthrough Edinburgh Fringe show. As a result of this, Curtis was commissioned to co-write the BBC Radio 3 series The Atkinson People with Atkinson in 1978, which was transmitted in 1979. He then began to write comedy for film and TV. He was a regular writer on the BBC comedy series Not the Nine O’Clock News, where he wrote many of the show’s songs with Howard Goodall and many satirical sketches, often with Rowan Atkinson. Curtis was the co-writer with Philip Pope of the Hee Bee Gee Bees’ single “Meaningless Songs (In Very High Voices)” released in 1980 to parody the style of a series of Bee Gees’ disco hits. In 1984 and 1985, Curtis wrote material for ITV’s satirical puppet show Spitting Image.

He married Emma Freud.

Richard Curtis Net Worth

Richard Curtis is one of the richest Director from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Curtis 's net worth $30 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was also a writer for The Atkinson People.

He is the author of How to be Your Own Literary Agent.

Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956), is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director. One of Britain’s most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013) and Yesterday (2019). He is also known for the drama War Horse (2011), and for having co-written the hit sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and The Vicar of Dibley. His early career saw him write material for the BBC’s Not the Nine O’Clock News and ITV’s Spitting Image.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Richard Curtis Dating?

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Curtis’ next film was also for Working Title, which has remained his artistic home ever since. 1997’s Bean brought Mr. Bean to the big screen and was a huge hit around the world. He continued his association with Working Title writing the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, which broke the record set by Four Weddings and a Funeral to become the top- grossing British film. The story of a lonely travel bookstore owner who falls in love with the world’s most famous movie star was directed by Roger Michell.

Facts & Trivia

Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in New Zealand. Richard Curtis celebrates birthday on November 8 of every year.

Curtis together with Lenny Henry are co-founders and co-creators of Comic Relief and Red Nose Day. Curtis is also a founder of Make Poverty History. He organised the Live 8 concerts with Bob Geldof to publicise poverty, particularly in Africa, and pressure G8 leaders to adopt his proposals for ending it. He has written of his work in The Observer in the Global development section in 2005.

How much is Richard Curtis worth?

Richard Curtis CBE
Born| Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis 8 November 1956 Wellington, New Zealand

Is Richard Curtis married to Emma Freud?

So it was surprising (well, for me) that the British writer and producer has been romantically involved and cohabiting with script editor and broadcaster Emma Freud, 57, for 28 years and has four children with her — but they’re not married.

How did Emma Freud meet Richard Curtis?

The pair, who are responsible for rom-com classics Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and About Time, first met when Freud interviewed Curtis about his work with Comic Relief for BBC Radio 4.

Who Wrote Love Actually?

Richard Curtis

How much does Julia Roberts worth?

Her fee for Pretty Woman (1990) was $300,000, while she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2020, Roberts’s net worth was estimated to be $250 million. People magazine has named her the most beautiful woman in the world a record five times.