David Hare

David Hare

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderMale
Birthdayjuin 5, 1947
BiographySir David Rippon Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink.

In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty (1978), which he adapted into a 1985 film starring Meryl Streep, Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), and Amy's View (1998). The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play. His other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda (starring Anthony Hopkins at the Royal National Theatre in London), Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War, The Vertical Hour, and his latest play Straight Line Crazy starring Ralph Fiennes.

For the big and small screens, along with the Oscar-winning screenplays for the Stephen Daldry drama films The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008), he both wrote and directed the BBC's much acclaimed Worricker Trilogy of films — Page Eight (2011), Turks & Caicos (2014), and Salting the Battlefield (2014) — as well as scripting television series for the BBC, Collateral (2018) and Roadkill (2020).

In addition to his two Academy Award nominations, Hare has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He has also been awarded several critics' awards, such as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and he received the Golden Bear in 1985.

Hare has been associate director of the National Theatre since 1984.

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