Biography
Jack Thorne FRSL (born 6 December 1978) is a British playwright, screenwriter, and producer. A massive fan of hard science fiction, he is best known for writing the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the films Wonder (2017), Enola Holmes (2020) and the latter's sequel (2022), and the television programme His Dark Materials (2019–2022). Between 2010 and 2015, Thorne co-wrote three mini-series – This Is England '86, This Is England '88, and This Is England '90 – with director Shane Meadows. In 2023, Jack Thorne's four-part mini-series Best Interests was released, starring Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan. It was nominated for several awards, winning Best Limited Series at the Banff Rockie Awards. Thorne's two 2025 mini-series, Toxic Town and Adolescence, were released on Netflix to widespread critical acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Thorne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 2020
- Tony Award — Best Play · 2018
Filmography35 titles
Making of Lord of the Flies
Wonder
Skins
Adolescence
His Dark Materials
This Is England '86
Lord of the Flies
Shameless
The Swimmers
Enola Holmes 2
Am I Being Unreasonable?
Enola Holmes
The Fades
Toxic Town
An Almost Christmas Story
Electric Dreams
Joy
Then Barbara Met Alan
The Aeronauts
Best Interests
Radioactive
The Eddy
National Treasure
The Secret Garden
Dirt Music
The Scouting Book for Boys
The Accident
A Long Way Down
National Treasure: Kiri
Glue
Question Time
The Last Panthers
Sinbad
Skins
The One Show