Laurie Nunn
{{Short description|English screenwriter and playwright}}
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Laurie Nunn (born May 1986) is an English screenwriter and playwright. She is best known for creating the Netflix {{nowrap|comedy-drama}} series Sex Education (2019–2023).
Early life
Nunn was born in London in May 1986,{{Cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/qpyLeDRWhfByYkqiaCdKrt1eO4Q/appointments|title=Laurie Alexandra NUNN}} the daughter of Australian actress Sharon {{nowrap|Lee-Hill}} and English theatre director Trevor Nunn.{{cite news |last1=Nicholson |first1=Rebecca |title=Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn: 'You can't make sex scenes flowery!' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/apr/27/sex-education-creator-laurie-nunn-netflix-interview-you-cant-make-sex-scenes-flowery |access-date=22 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=27 April 2020}} Her parents divorced in 1991.(no author). "Nunn divorce", The Times, 21 May 1991, Home news She has a sister,Dickson, Andrew. [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/nov/18/trevor-nunn-life-in-theatre "Trevor Nunn Life in Theatre"], The Guardian, 18 November 2011 an older {{nowrap|half-brother}} from her father's previous marriage to actress Janet Suzman,(no author). "Divorce for Janet Suzman", The Times (London), 19 April 1986[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/187326%7C0/Janet-Suzman/ "Janet Suzman Biography-see Companions and Family"], tcm.com, accessed 20 April 2012 and a younger {{nowrap|half-sister}} named Ellie and younger {{nowrap|half-brother}} from her father's later marriage to actress Imogen Stubbs.(no author). "Actress Imogen Goes Back to Her Roots for Marriage Blessing", Press Association, 18 September 1994, Home News Ellie is an actress.{{cite news|last1=Savill|first1=Richard|last2=Wardrop|first2=Murray|title=Imogen Stubbs and Sir Trevor Nunn separate after 21 years|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8471249/Imogen-Stubbs-and-Sir-Trevor-Nunn-separate-after-21-years.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=25 April 2011|access-date=25 April 2011}} At the age of 14, Nunn moved to Australia to live with her mother. She earned a BA in Film and Television from Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts in 2007, then returned to England and earned an MA in Screenwriting at the National Film and Television School in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independenttalent.com/writers/laurie-nunn/|title=Laurie Nunn|work=independenttalent.com}}
Career
Nunn's first full play, King Brown (2017), earned her a place on the shortlist for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.{{Cite web|url=https://www.writeaplay.co.uk/meetlaurienunn/|title=Meet 2017 short-list Laurie Nunn|date=25 January 2019 }} She went on to create the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023).
References
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External links
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Category:Victorian College of the Arts alumni
Category:Alumni of the National Film and Television School
Category:English female screenwriters
Category:English women dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century English dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century English screenwriters
Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:English people of Australian descent
Category:International Emmy Award–winning screenwriters
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