Jane Goldman

Jane Loretta Anne Goldman (born 11 June 1970) is a British screenwriter and producer.

They married in 1988, when Goldman was 18 years old.

The couple have three children: two daughters and a son.

As a journalist, Goldman worked on newspapers and magazines such as Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Times, Evening Standard, Zero, Daily Star, Total Guitar, Game Zone and Sega Zone.

At the age of 19, she became a freelance writer.

Goldman also wrote books: Thirteen-Something (1993), Streetsmarts: A Teenager's Safety Guide (1996), Sussed and Streetwise (1997), the two-volume best-selling series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1997), her first and only novel Dreamworld (2000), and Do the Right Thing (2003), among others.

She has also written books such as The X-Files Book of the Unexplained (1995) and the novel Dreamworld (2000).

In 2000, she modeled for Fantasie Bras.

She made the jump to screenwriting, and was part of the writing team for David Baddiel's short-lived sitcom Baddiel's Syndrome, in 2001.

Goldman presented her own TV show, Jane Goldman Investigates (2003–04), a non-fiction series on the paranormal, for the channel Living.

Goldman was raised in a liberal, middle-class family in north London, the only child of a Jewish father and a Buddhist mother.

She attended the King Alfred School, an independent school in Hampstead, until the age of 15 before moving to the United States to follow Boy George on tour.

Upon her return to the UK, she took a job as an entertainment reporter with the Daily Star.

When she was 16, she met TV presenter Jonathan Ross.

Between 2003 and 2004 she had her own television series.

Jane Goldman Investigates researched the paranormal and was transmitted by channel Living between 2003 and 2004.

Goldman is also in the production teams of a number of TV shows, such as The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

Later, she co-wrote the screenplay of Stardust (2007), based on the novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman and directed by Matthew Vaughn.

Gaiman introduced Goldman to Vaughn to provide the director some help with the adaptation process.

The film received many accolades and gave the screenwriters a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.

After Stardust, Goldman became a frequent collaborator of Vaughn.

Goldman co-wrote his next films, the comic-book adaptations Kick-Ass (2010) and X-Men: First Class (2011).

Both films won strong praise amongst film critics.

Kick-Ass nowadays has a cult following, while X-Men: First Class is considered by many critics to be one of the best of all X-Men franchise.

Rotten Tomatoes consensus says: "With a strong script, stylish direction, and powerful performances from its well-rounded cast, X-Men: First Class is a welcome return to form for the franchise."

Goldman has described the film as an "alternate history" for the X-Men, saying that while rebooting, the writers did not want to go fully "against the canon of the X-Men trilogy", comparing to the various approaches the comic had in over fifty years of publication.

In a 2011 interview, the writer said that when she works with the director she does the "construction work" and the "interior designing" while Vaughn acts as the "architect."

She continued to work in adaptations, and was also a co-writer with Vaughn and Peter Straughan for the 2011 drama-thriller The Debt, which was based on the 2007 Israeli film HaHov and directed by John Madden.

Goldman also adapted for Hammer The Woman in Black, a gothic horror film based on Susan Hill's novel.

The project marks the first solo screenplay by Goldman.

The film was directed by James Watkins.

Goldman's first solo screenplay is The Woman in Black (2012).

It was released in 2012 and met positive reviews.

In March 2013, The Woman in Black won the Empire Award for Best Horror.

She is credited on X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to First Class, as writing the story with Matthew Vaughn and Simon Kinberg.

She is mostly known for collaborating with director Matthew Vaughn on the screenplays of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), as well as X-Men: First Class (2011), Kick-Ass (2010) and Stardust (2007).

Goldman also worked on the story of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), the sequel to First Class, again in partnership with Vaughn.

Both met high critical praise for their work.

She also wrote the script for The Limehouse Golem and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, both released in 2016.

She's the writer of Edgar Wright's upcoming thriller The Chain.