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Christopher Hampton
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Born:
January 26, 1946 in Fayal, Azores
Biography:One of Great Britain's most esteemed contemporary playwrights, "Chris Hampton" is best known in film for his Oscar-winning screenplays for "Dangerous Liasons" (1988), which he adapted from his own play, and his Academy Award nominated script for Atonement (2007), adapted from Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel. Hampton was born to British parents in the Azores. He was an 18-year-old student at Oxford when he had his first play produced. He earned his reputation for excellence while working as the resident dramatist at the Royal Court in London between 1968 and 1970. While there, he proved himself equally adept at adapting classic literature into plays as well as writing his own. His stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses brought him international acclaim. The young playwright's first screenplay was an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House (1973). Hampton would not write another... Full Biography
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Playwright Christopher Hampton attends the Opening Night Afterparty for the Broadway Production of...
Playwright Christopher Hampton attends the Opening Night Afterparty for the Broadway Production of...
Christopher Hampton at the Intolerable Cruelty premeire in Venice Lido on September 03, 2003
Leticia Dolera, Emma Thompson and Director Christopher Hampton
Director Christopher Hampton
Director Christopher Hampton
Director Christopher Hampton at the Imagining Argentina premeire in Venice Lido on September 01,...
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