Table of Biography
Richard Curtis is a talented screenwriter, producer, and film director from England. Richard Curtis is known for romantic comedy films such as “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).
Early Life
Born as Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, better known as Richard Curtis was born on 8 November 1956, in Wellington, New Zealand. He is currently 67 years old and has a zodiac sign of Scorpio. He holds British nationality and belongs to a mixed ethnicity.
Caption: Richard Curtis’s childhood photo (Source: Little London Magazine)
Moreover, he was born to Anthony J. Curtis (father) and Glyness S. Curtis (mother). Moreover, he was raised with his younger brother Jamie.
His father was a Czechoslovakian immigrant who immigrated to Australia at thirteen and rose through the ranks of Unilever. Curtis and his family resided in numerous places in his childhood, including Sweden and the Philippines, before relocating to the United Kingdom when he was 11.
Education and Early Works
Curtis attended Papplewick School in Ascot, Berkshire. During the 1970s, he lived in Warrington, Cheshire for a short period, where he attended Appleton Grammar School (now Bridgewater High School).
He then gained a scholarship to Harrow School, where he joined the editorial board of The Harrovian, the school’s monthly magazine. While studying at Harrow School, he directed a school performance of Joe Orton’s play The Erpingham Camp.
At Christ Church, Oxford, he earned a first-class Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature. He met and began working with Rowan Atkinson at the University of Oxford when they both joined the scriptwriting team of the Etceteras Revue, which was part of the Experimental Theatre Club.
In May 1976, he was featured in the company’s “After Eights” at the Oxford Playhouse. He wrote content for ITV’s satirical puppet show Spitting Image in 1984 and 1985.
Professional Career
Richard Curtis was a co-writer of the BBC Radio 3 series “The Atkinson People” with Rowan Atkinson in 1978, which was broadcast in 1979. He subsequently started writing humour for film and television.
Moreover, he was a regular writer on the BBC comedy series “Not the Nine O’Clock News,” where he wrote many of the show’s sarcastic sketches, sometimes in collaboration with Rowan Atkinson.
He wrote content for ITV’s satirical puppet show Spitting Image in 1984 and 1985. Moreover, he then wrote the “Blackadder” series from 1983 to 1989, first with Atkinson and subsequently with Ben Elton, concentrating each season on a different era in British history.
Caption: The poster of the TV series, Blackadder (Source: IMDb)
Curtis was the only writer who worked on every episode of “Blackadder,” but Atkinson played the lead throughout. The pair worked together again on the comic series “Mr. Bean,” which aired from 1990 until 1995.
He created and co-wrote “The Vicar of Dibley” for comic Dawn French in 1994, which was a huge success. In 1994, he had his breakthrough with the romantic comedy film, “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”
He then collaborated with Working Title on the filmed version of the international best-seller “Bridget Jones’ Diary.” Then, he worked as a co-writer on “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” the sequel to Bridget Jones’ Diary, in 2004.
He went on to write the script for “The Girl in the Café,” a television film directed by David Yates and produced by the BBC and HBO in 2005 as part of the Make Poverty History campaign’s Live 8 activities.
Recent Works
He co-wrote an adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith’s novel, “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,” with Anthony Minghella, which Minghella shot in Botswana in mid-2007. It debuted on the BBC on March 23, 2008.
“The Boat That Rocked,” his second film as a writer/director, was released in 2009. In the United Kingdom, the film was a commercial and critical failure. He next wrote “Mary and Martha,” which was directed by Phillip Noyce for BBC/HBO.
Moreover, he then developed and directed “About Time,” a romantic comedy/drama about family love and time travel. He followed it with “Trash,” which he adapted for director Stephen Daldry from Andy Mulligan’s novel.
“Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot,” a BBC television film version of Roald Dahl’s iconic children’s tale, was his next project. Yesterday, his next film was adapted from an original script by Jack Barth (who received just “co-story” credit at Curtis’ demand).
He worked as a writer and producer in the 2023 American Christmas fantasy comedy film “Genie” directed by Sam Boyd. He is currently working as an executive producer as well as writer in the upcoming Christmas fantasy comedy film “That Christmas.”
Richard Curtis – Awards
Caption: Richard Curtis wins the BAFTA award (Source: BAFTA Awards Database)
As of now, this multi-talented director has won a total of six awards and eleven nominations. In 1990, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy for ” Blackadder Goes Forth.”
He received the Best Original Screenplay in the 1995 Writers Guild of America Award. In 2005, he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for two categories for his works in “The Girl in the Café.” He earned the 2007 British Academy Film Award Academy Fellowship. In 2020, he won the Global Citizen Prize Award for Global Citizen of the Year.
Net Worth 2024
As of 2023, this British director’s net worth is $30 million meanwhile he has not made clear about his actual earnings and salary. Through his profession, he has lived a lavish lifestyle with his family.
Relationship Status
Caption: Richard Curtis’s family photo (Source: Baby Magazine)
Currently, Richard Curtis is dating his girlfriend, Emma Freud, His girlfriend is a script editor and broadcaster by profession. With the relationship, the pair has six kids named Scarlett Curtis, Scarlett Rachel Anne Curtis, Spike Curtis, Jake Barnard Curtis, Jake Curtis, and Charlie Curtis. Previously, Curtis dated Anne Jenkin.
Controversy
Curtis’s short film, “No Pressure,” was a campaign in Britain in October 2010 to support climate change politics. The film portrayed a sequence of situations in which individuals were asked whether they wanted to join in the 10:10 campaign, promised there was “no pressure” to do so, and then blown up at the click of a red button if they did not. Although the reaction was varied, the video was quickly deleted from the organization’s website.
He apologized in March 2011 when the British Stammering Association complained about the opening sketch of 2011 Comic Relief, a spoof of the 2010 film The King’s Speech by Lenny Henry.
Body Measurements
Caption: Richard Curtis attending an award program (Source: HELLO! Magazine)
This 67-year-old man stands 5 feet 9 inches and weighs an average. In addition, he has a pair of blue eyes with gray hair colour.
Richard Curtis – Social Media
This British director appears to be quite private and is not present on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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