Sally Wainwright
Creator
Born 1963-01-01
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
25 credits
BAFTA Awards 1
Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1
Edgar Awards 1
Awards
Won 1 BAFTA Award
BAFTA Awards 1 won · 2 nominated
- 2013 Best Drama Series Won Last Tango in Halifax
- 2012 Best Drama Series Nominated Scott & Bailey
- 2002 Best Drama Series Nominated At Home with the Braithwaites
Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1 won
- 2020 Officer of the Order of the British Empire Won
Edgar Awards 1 won
- 2015 Edgar Awards Won
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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 on the television soap operas Emmerdale and Coronation Street in the 1990s. Her first original drama, At Home with the Braithwaites, aired between 2000 and 2003. After two self-described "flops" in the mid-2000s, Wainwright found success with Unforgiven (2009), for which she won the Royal Television Society's Writer of the Year Award. Her work since includes Scott & Bailey (2011–2016), Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020), Happy Valley (2014–2023), and Gentleman Jack (2019–2022). Last Tango in Halifax won the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 2013, and Happy Valley won the same award in both 2015 and 2017.
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Filmography
Writing
21 credits
Bad Girls
Happy Valley
Gentleman Jack
Renegade Nell
Scott & Bailey
The Unforgivable
Last Tango in Halifax
Canterbury Tales
At Home with the Braithwaites
ShakespeaRe-Told
Riot Women
Unforgiven
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Bonkers
Sparkhouse
The House of Windsor
To Walk Invisible
Jane Hall
The Taming of the Shrew
The Last Witch
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Producing
11 credits
Happy Valley
Gentleman Jack
Renegade Nell
Scott & Bailey
The Unforgivable
Last Tango in Halifax
The Detail
Riot Women
Unforgiven
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
To Walk Invisible
Acting
5 credits
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Remembers…
The Unforgivable
The Detail
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Directing
3 credits
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