Sally Wainwright

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Sally Wainwright

Born January 1, 1963 · Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK (age 63)

Sally Anne Wainwright OBE (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director. She is known for her dramas, which are often set in West Yorkshire, where she originates from, and feature "strong female characters". Wainwright has been praised for the quality of her dialogue. Wainwright began her career as a scriptwriter on the long-running radio serial drama The Archers, and worked…

Known For

The UnforgivableThe Unforgivable · 2021
The Unforgivable
7.42021
MovieDramaCrime
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
To Walk InvisibleTo Walk Invisible · 2016
To Walk Invisible
7.32016
MovieDramaHistory
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie BottomleyDead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley · 2007
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
5.42007
MovieCrimeDrama
When Julie Bottomley discovers her husband of 10 years has been sleeping with her sister, her first instinct is to kill him. However, rather than risk life imprisonment herself, she devises a better plan to get revenge on Ian by faking her own death and framing him for murder. But can she resist the temptation to let her jailed husband know just how "Dead Clever" she's been?
The Last WitchThe Last Witch · 2013
The Last Witch
5.02013
MovieThrillerDrama
A young woman abruptly moves into an elderly lady's house. Strange things start to happen and soon it becomes clear witchcraft is involved.
The Taming of the ShrewThe Taming of the Shrew · 2005
The Taming of the Shrew
8.02005
MovieComedy
A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.
Coronation StreetCoronation Street · 1960
Coronation Street
5.41960
SeriesSoap
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.
EmmerdaleEmmerdale · 1972
Emmerdale
4.31972
SeriesSoapDrama
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
Gentleman JackGentleman Jack · 2019
Gentleman Jack
7.82019
SeriesDrama
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

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Children's WardChildren's Ward · 1989
Children's Ward
5.31989
SeriesDramaKids
Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set – as the title suggests – in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital, and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series 1989 and running from then until 2000. The series was conceived by Granada staff writers Paul Abbott and Kay Mellor, both of whom went on to enjoy successful careers as award-winning writers of adult television drama. At the time, they were both working on the soap opera Coronation Street, and had recently collaborated on a script for Dramarama. Abbott, who had been through a troubled childhood himself, had initially wanted to set the series in a children's care home rather than a hospital, but this was vetoed by Granada executives. During the course of its run, however, Children's Ward won many plaudits for covering difficult issues such as cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction and child abuse in a sensitive manner. The programme won many awards, including in 1996 a BAFTA Children's Award for Best Drama, won by an episode in which a serial killer lures children to him via the internet and is – highly unusually for children's television – not eventually caught.

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