Rowan Marc Joffé (born 1973) is a British

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and director. He is the son of director

Roland Joffé Roland Joffé (; born 17 November 1945) is an English film and television film director, director, Film producer, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically-acclaimed films ''The Killing Fields (film), The Killing Field ...

and actress Jane Lapotaire, and half-brother of actress Nathalie Lunghi. Joffé began writing plays in university and was eventually awarded a Cameron Mackintosh bursary. Joffé's first two screenwriting projects (''Last Resort'' and ''Gas Attack'') both won the Best New British Feature Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. His 2003 television drama ''Turkish Delight'', about a bored housewife who starts a new job belly dancing, won the Royal television Society's Best Drama Award (Midland). He directed '' The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall'' which won the Best Single Drama Award at the 2009 BAFTA TV Awards. In 2009, Joffé directed his first

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, his own adaptation of the novel '' Brighton Rock'' which relocates the action to the 1960s. In 2010, Joffé wrote a screenplay based on the novel ''A Very Private Gentleman'' by Martin Booth. It was directed by Anton Corbijn, with George Clooney in the leading role, and was eventually released under the title '' The American''. Joffé's next project as director was an

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of the S. J. Watson novel '' Before I Go to Sleep'', with Nicole Kidman in the lead. Joffé also wrote the screenplay adaptation. In 2017, '' Tin Star'', for which Joffé serves as creator and producer, debuted on Sky Atlantic. The series, starring Tim Roth, was picked up by Amazon streaming service for distribution in the United States.

Filmography

Feature films TV films TV series

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* 1973 births Alumni of the University of Oxford British male television writers Date of birth missing (living people) English male screenwriters English television writers English television directors Film directors from London Living people People educated at Sussex House School Writers from London {{UK-screenwriter-stub