Peter Morgan

His mother, Inga (née Bojcek), was a Catholic Pole who fled the Soviets, and his father, Arthur Morgenthau, was a German Jew who fled the Nazis, arriving in London in 1933.

His father died when Morgan was nine years old.

Morgan attended St Paul's School in London and boarding school at Downside School, Somerset, and gained a degree in Fine Art from the University of Leeds.

Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (born 10 April 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright.

He has written for theatre, films and television, often writing about historical events or figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, whom he has covered extensively in all major media.

He has received a number of accolades including five BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.

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.

These ended with his tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.

The play was directed by Michael Grandage and opened to enthusiastic reviews.

He also served as additional writer for Madame Sousatzka (1988), co-writer on the short film Dear Rosie (1990), and wrote re-writes for the comedy King Ralph (1991).

Morgan wrote television scripts during the 1990s, including an episode of Rik Mayall Presents... and the Comedy Premiere The Chest.

He wrote the screenplay to the romantic comedy Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998).

Morgan is also known for his work in television writing the ITV series The Jury (2002), the Channel 4 film The Deal (2003), and the HBO films Longford (2006), and The Special Relationship (2010).

In 2002, Morgan had some success with the TV series The Jury (2002).

In 2003, Morgan broke through with The Deal, a television drama about the power-sharing deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that was struck in the Granita restaurant in London in 1994.

Blair was portrayed by Michael Sheen, who would return to the role of Blair in The Queen and The Special Relationship.

He is the playwright behind the plays Frost/Nixon (2005), The Audience (2013), and Patriots (2022), the former of which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.

As a screenwriter, Morgan received Academy Award nominations for The Queen (2006) and Frost/Nixon (2008).

He also wrote the screenplays for The Last King of Scotland (2006), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), The Damned United (2009), and Rush (2013).

In 2006 The Queen was released, which showed how the death of Princess Diana impacted Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Royal Family.

The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival where it received critical acclaim.

The film received 6 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.

Morgan also received a nomination for Best Screenplay.

Morgan received the Golden Globe Award for his screenplay from the Hollywood Foreign Press, and Helen Mirren won numerous awards for playing the title role including the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award.

2006 also saw the release of The Last King of Scotland, the screenplay of which Morgan adapted with Jeremy Brock.

Also in 2006, Morgan's first play, Frost/Nixon, was staged at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London.

In 2007 they jointly won a BAFTA Film Award for their work on the film.

In May 2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honoured Morgan with the year's Kanbar Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.

The play transferred to Broadway in 2007 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre where it ran from 21 April to 19 August.

The play received three Tony Awards including one for Morgan for the Best Play.

Langella won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

In 2008, the film adaptation of Frost/Nixon directed by Ron Howard was released, with Sheen and Langella playing the parts they had on stage.

The film also starred Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Mathew Macfadyen, Toby Jones, Oliver Platt, and Sam Rockwell.

The film debuted at the London Film Festival to critical acclaim.

Roger Ebert gave the film 4 stars praising the writing and the performances of the leads saying, "Frank Langella and Michael Sheen do not attempt to mimic their characters, but to embody them".

Despite praise from critics the film was a box office failure.

The film received five Academy Award nominations including Best Adapted Screenplay for Morgan as well as for Best Picture losing to Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

He served as creator and show-runner of the Netflix series The Crown (2016–2023).

Morgan was born in Wimbledon, London.

In February 2017, Morgan was awarded a British Film Institute Fellowship.