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Joe Wright (IV)

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His parents founded Islington's Little Angel Theater, a puppet theater.

Is Dyslexic and left school with no O-levels.

His father was 65 when he was born.

In 2007, he became the youngest director in history to have a film open the Venice Film Festival (his film Atonement was chosen to open 64th Venice International Film Festival).

Attended the Camberwell College of Arts.

Named one of Variety's "10 Directors to Watch" (2006).

Trained as a filmmaker at London's St. Martins art school.

Became engaged to actress Rosamund Pike in September 2007. They met on the set of Pride & Prejudice (2005).

Directed Keira Knightley in an Oscar-nominated performance as Lizzie Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005) in what was his directorial film debut.

Father died when the director was only 19 years old.

Personal Quotes

"Pride [and Prejudice] is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfillment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life."

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new. I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

To me, naturalism is the death of drama. Lee Strasberg came along and the Method f***ed everything up. I find people like Celia Johnson are my favorite actors. I was brought up on films like Brief Encounter, and for me they expressed enormous truth. Marlon Brando does not have the monopoly on truth!

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

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