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Richard Curtis

British screenwriter (born 1956)

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Works: 129

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1942-06-03
Active to: 1999-12-26

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Total plays: 6,709

Richard Curtis is 1) the name of script writer and director responsible for "Four Weddings and A Funeral and Comic Relief 2) the name of a pianist singer/ songwriter taking the torch from artists such as Elton John and James Blunt. He was born and lives in England. Having recorded one demo album he is busy performing live and writing new material. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Curtis">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“I remember how shocked I was five years ago when Scarlett said to me, "You can never use the word fat again".And, wow, you were right. In my generation, calling someone "chubby" [was funny] ... in Love, Actually, there are endless jokes about that. I think I was behind the curve and those jokes aren't any longer funny.I don’t feel I was malicious at the time but I feel I was unobservant and not as clever as I should have been.”
“Because I came from a very undiverse school and bunch of university friends, I think that I’ve hung on, on the diversity issue, to the feeling that I wouldn’t know how to write those parts. I think I was just sort of stupid and wrong about that. [...] I just don't know. I feel as though me, my casting director, my producers, just didn't think about it, just didn't look outwards enough.”

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Key facts

Born: Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis , ( 1956-11-08 ) 8 November 1956 (age 69) , Wellington , New Zealand
Occupation: Screenwriter producer director
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Education: University of Oxford ( BA )
Period: 1979–present
Spouse: Emma Freud ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2023 )
Children: 4, including Scarlett Curtis

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Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis (born 8 November 1956) is a British screenwriter, producer and director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known for romantic comedy-drama films, including 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), as well as the war drama film War Horse (2011), and for having co-written the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. His early career saw him write material for the comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image.

In 2007, Curtis received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He is the co-founder, with Lenny Henry, of the British charity Comic Relief, which has raised over £1 billion. At the 2008 Britannia Awards, he received the BAFTA Humanitarian Award for co-creating Comic Relief and for his contributions to other charitable causes. In 2024, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.