Background
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis was born on November 8, 1956 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was the son of Anthony and Glynness Curtis.
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A young man, who recently escaped from a mental institution where he was committed after brutally murdering his sister 15 years earlier, returns to his home town stalking new victims
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1983
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Love Actually is the highly awaited new screenplay and directorial debut from phenomenally popular screenwriter Richard Curtis. Weaving together the stories of ten couples, the movie is as real as our own lives, and as funny, wise, and poignant as only Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) could create. Set in contemporary London just before Christmas, the cast includes a lovelorn Prime Minister, an aging rock star, a sexually ambitious assistant, a newly widowed stepfather, a beautiful housekeeper, a straying husband, and other characters entangled in the silly, sloppy, sexy, sweet business of finding love. The film's stellar actors include Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and others. Introduced by Richard Curtis, the book features the full screenplay plus outtakes, behind-the-scenes snapshots, and more. With marvelous full-color photographs throughout, this smart, funny, romantic book is a valentine for anyone who still believes that despite the madness and uncertainty of modern life, love actually is all around. Love Actually is the highly awaited new screenplay and directorial debut from phenomenally popular screenwriter Richard Curtis. Weaving together the stories of ten couples, the movie is as real as our own lives, and as funny, wise, and poignant as only Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) could create. Set in contemporary London just before Christmas, the cast includes a lovelorn Prime Minister, an aging rock star, a sexually ambitious assistant, a newly widowed stepfather, a beautiful housekeeper, a straying husband, and other characters entangled in the silly, sloppy, sexy, sweet business of finding love. The film's stellar actors include Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and others. Introduced by Richard Curtis, the book features the full screenplay plus outtakes, behind-the-scenes snapshots, and more. With marvelous full-color photographs throughout, this smart, funny, romantic book is a valentine for anyone who still believes that despite the madness and uncertainty of modern life, love actually is all around.
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2003
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis was born on November 8, 1956 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was the son of Anthony and Glynness Curtis.
Curtis won a scholarship to Harrow School. He achieved a first-class Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford.
Early in Richard's career Curtis met comedian Rowan Atkinson at Oxford University, and he has continued to work with Atkinson on such projects as Blackadder and Mr. Bean.
Richard was a writer for television and motion picture and for such television series as Not the Nine O'Clock News, BBC in 1981, Tiger Television in 1992.
He wrote and appeared in The Tall Guy, Virgin Vision in 1989. He wrote and acted as co-executive producer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gramercy in 1994.
Curtis' next film Notting Hill, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, appeared in 1999. Then Curtis was heavily involved with the adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary from novel to film, which appeared in 2001. Two years later Curtis wrote and directed Love Actually.
Curtis then wrote the screenplay to The Girl in the Café, a television film directed by David Yates and produced by the BBC and HBO as part of the Make Poverty History campaign's Live 8 efforts in 2005. Curtis co-wrote with Anthony Minghella an adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency which Minghella shot in mid-2007 in Botswana.
Richard's second film as writer/director, The Boat That Rocked, was released in 2009.
Curtis's next wrote and directed About Time, a romantic comedy/drama about time travel and family love, appeared in 2013. In September of the same year Curtis delivered a screenwriting lecture as part of the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series.
Richard followed that with a script adapted from the novel Trash by Andy Mulligan for director Stephen Daldry. The production, starring Rooney Mara and Martin Sheen, filmed in 2013 in Rio de Janeiro for release in 2014.
He next adapted Roald Dahl's novel Esio Trot for television in a film starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench, directed by Dearbhla Walsh and broadcast on BBC on 1 January 2015. He has written an untitled musical/comedy script that is set to film in the summer of 2018, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Lily James.
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2003Curtis is the father of Scarlett Kate Freud Curtis and Jake Daniel Anthony Freud Curtis.