Neil Cross ( Neil Claude Gadd; born 9 February 1969) is a British novelist and scriptwriter, best known as the creator of the drama series ''

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''. He is also the showrunner for the TV adaptation of '' The Mosquito Coast'', which began airing in 2021.

Life and career

Neil Claude Gadd was born in

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on 9 February 1969, to unhappily married parents, Alan and Edna ( Noyes) Gadd. He was the youngest of their four children. His mother ran away when he was five, returned two years later and took him to

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with Derek Cross, a White South African who was to become his stepfather and whose surname he would adopt. Neil Cross graduated from the University of Leeds in 1994 with a degree in English and Theology, and received his Masters in English in the year following. His initial career was solely as a novelist, beginning with ''Mr In-Between'', which was published in 1998 (and adapted into a film in 2001). He later worked into television, writing an episode of the spy drama '' Spooks'' in 2006 before becoming lead writer on the sixth and

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series of the show. He has written for '' The Fixer'' and ''

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" and " Hide"). In 2010 he wrote a new adaptation of ''

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'', from the story by

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. He has created three television series:

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Life and career

Filmography

Television

Film

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

''Luther'' Series 1

''Luther'' Series 2

''Luther'' Series 3

Books

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