Joe Wright

Person · Open Library

Born

1972-08-25

Works

7

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Directing · London, England, UK

Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. He directed the period drama adaptations Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), the Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and Darkest Hour (2017). He also directed the historical drama television series Mussolini: Son of the Century (2025). Description…

Known for

• Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean — Self2026
• M - Il Figlio del secolo | Il dietro le quinte — himself2025
• Directors on Directors — Self2021
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2015
• HBO First Look — Self1992
• Poison Ivy — Jerry Disbro1985

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1953-12-21

Active to

2020-05-10

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,052

Total plays

5,990

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joe+Wright">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Joe Wright

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 20,850x

2. PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet

   · 2011 · cited 15,702x

3. Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function

   · 1963 · cited 13,975x

4. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,371x

5. Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

   · 2013 · cited 10,736x

via Crossref · CC0

Key dates

Born

25 August 1972

via Wikidata · CC0

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Wright

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

London

Spouse

Anoushka Shankar

Occupation

film producer

Educated at

Camberwell College of Arts

Languages spoken

English language

Image

Joe Wright.jpg