Information about Peter Morgan

This article is about the British screenwriter. For other uses of the same name, see Peter Morgan (disambiguation).

Peter Morgan (born April 10, 1963 in London) is an English Academy Award nominated screenwriter and playwright. He is best known for writing The Deal, a 2003 television drama about the power-sharing deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that was struck in the Granita restaurant in London; and for The Queen, a 2006 movie starring Helen Mirren that showed the impact of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales on the British royal family. It is for his work on this film that he received his Oscar nomination.

Also in 2006, Morgan's first play Frost/Nixon was staged at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London. Starring Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon, the play concerns the series of televised interviews that the disgraced former president granted Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal. The play was directed by Michael Grandage and opened to enthusiastic reviews.

Morgan was born in London, the son of refugees; his father Arthur Morgenthau was a German Jew who fled the Nazis, and his mother Inga, a Catholic Pole who fled the Soviets. He gained a degree in Fine Art from the University of Leeds and lived in Battersea, south London, with his Austrian wife Lila Schwarzenberg and their daughters and three sons. Peter Morgan and his family relocated to Vienna in the winter of 2006.

In January 2007, Morgan earned a Golden Globe from the Hollywood Foreign Press for his work on The Queen. While during his acceptance speech, he called Queen Elizabeth II a "stubborn seventy year old woman" and wondered aloud what it would take for leaders to listen to their people when it concerns something of real importance. He subsequently admitted that "As far as I am aware, I wrote about a cold, emotionally detached, haughty, difficult, prickly, private, uncommunicative, out-of-touch bigot".

In February 2007, Morgan won a BAFTA for his adapted screenplay to The Last King of Scotland, alongside fellow scribe Jeremy Brock.

On May 5, 2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival will honor Peter Morgan with this year's Kanbar Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.

On October 2, 2007, it was annouced that Morgan was working on a sequel to "The Queen". Michael Sheen will be reprising his role as Tony Blair. The film will focus on Blair's relationship with U.S presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

He attended Mrs. Henderson's Kindergarten in Wimbledon Village, along with actor Martin Clunes.

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Peter Morgan (automaker), British sports car manufacturer
Peter Morgan (racer), 1978 British Formula Ford champion
Peter Morgan (screenwriter), British screenwriter and dramatist
Pete Morgan, a British poet, author and presenter

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The Deal is a 2003 made for television play directed by Stephen Frears starring Michael Sheen as Tony Blair and David Morrissey as Gordon Brown. The story, based on a book by James Naughtie, concentrates on the alleged 1994 meeting at the Granita restaurant in Islington
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Granita was a restaurant in the Islington area of London. It has a certain prominence in British politics, as in late May 1994 it was the setting for the alleged "Blair-Brown deal" between the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair and the then shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer,
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The Queen is a 2006 Academy Award-winning British drama film directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan and stars Oscar-winner Helen Mirren with Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings
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Frost/Nixon is a play by the British screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan. Its subject is the series of televised interviews that Richard Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.
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Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England.

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