Peter Moffat | |
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| Born | (1962-06-02)June 2, 1962 (age 63) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Playwright and screenwriter |
| Spouse | Leonora Klein |
Alexander Peter Moffat (born 2 June 1962)[1][2] is a British playwright and screenwriter.
Moffat was born inEdinburgh, Scotland,[1] to John Laidlaw Moffat, who was in theRoyal Military Police, and Norma Guthrie. His grandfather and great-grandfather were shepherds inTweedsmuir.[3] Their lives inspired his TV seriesThe Village. Moffat's father joined the Colonial Police Force inTanganyika and later the Army, so the family, including young Peter, moved from country to country every two years,[4] which inspired his seriesThe Last Post.[5]
Moffat's first play wasFine and Private Place and was broadcast onBBC Radio in 1997.[6] His best-known plays areNabokov's Gloves andIona Rain.[7]
Moffat is a formerbarrister; one of his early commissions was for an episode ofKavanagh QC. He has since created three British television legal dramas:North Square,Criminal Justice andSilk. He also wrote the miniseriesCambridge Spies and the television filmEinstein and Eddington, as well as a reinterpretation ofWilliam Shakespeare'sMacbeth for theBBC'sShakespeaRe-Told series.[8]
Moffat wrote the historical dramaThe Village, depicting life in aDerbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton. The first series, covering the years 1914 to 1920 in six episodes, premiered on BBC1 in 2013, and a second and final series, set in the 1920s, was made in 2014.[9] Moffat envisions more series totalling up to 42 episodes that will continue the story through the 20th century. The proposed project is similar to the German film seriesHeimat, written and directed byEdgar Reitz, which told the story of a German family from 1919 to 2000.[10]
The BBC broadcast Moffat's drama seriesUndercover in 2016.[11] Moffat took inspiration for the fictional drama fromreal-life revelations about British police officers who had formed long-term relationships with activists they were investigating while undercover, as well as from the LondonMetropolitan Police Service's secret surveillance of the family of murdered teenagerStephen Lawrence.[12]
His drama seriesYour Honor, starringBryan Cranston as a conflicted New Orleans judge, began its run onShowtime on 6 December 2020.
In 2022, it was announced that Moffat would be writing a new film calledScoop based onPrince Andrew's 2019 interview withNewsnight.[13]
In February 2024, it was reported that Moffat was writing a drama series about thecontaminated blood scandal forITV.[14]
Moffat won the Writer's Award from theBroadcasting Press Guild forNorth Square,[15] and was nominated for aBAFTA Award in 2004 for writingHawking, a TV drama about the scientistStephen Hawking.[16] In 2009, he was awarded two BAFTAs forCriminal Justice, one for Best Television Drama Serial[17] and one for Best Craft Writer.[18]
Peter Moffat is married to barrister and author Leonora Klein[19] and has two children.[4]
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