Ann Peacock

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Ann Peacock is a South African-born screenwriter based in the United States. After working as a law professor in her native South Africa, she moved to the United States and started a screenwriting career at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has received awards and nominations for her works A Lesson Before Dying (1999), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), and The First Grader (2015).

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Biography

Peacock was born and raised in South Africa. [1] She was educated at the University of Cape Town, where she obtained her law degree, [2] and she had a career as a law professor. [3]

Her screenwriting career began after she moved to the United States, [1] writing her first screenplay June the 16th as a screenwriting student at University of California, Los Angeles, inspired by a family experience with internal resistance to apartheid. [3] She wrote the HBO film A Lesson Before Dying (1999), for which she won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. [4] In 2000, she adapted the Langston Hughes short story Cora Unashamed into a TV movie of the same name for PBS' The American Collection . [5] In July 2002, Walden Media hired Peacock as the screenwriter for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , [3] for which she was later nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form). [6]

Her screenwriting credits also include In My Comedy (2004), Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), and The Killing Room (2009) [7] [8] [1] [2] [9] She won the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for her screenplay The First Grader . [10] In 2015, she adapted Alice Hoffman's book The Dovekeepers into a television miniseries of the same name for CBS. [11]

She has a son who was engaged in the anti-apartheid movement. [3]

Filmography (as screenwriter)

YearTitleRef.
1999 A Lesson Before Dying [1]
2000 Cora Unashamed [5]
2004 In My Comedy [7]
2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [2]
2007 Pictures of Hollis Woods (with Camille Thomasson and Daniel Petrie Jr.) [8]
2008 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl [1]
2008 Nights in Rodanthe [2]
2009 The Killing Room (with Gus Krieger) [9]
2011 The First Grader [12]
2015 The Dovekeepers [11]

Awards

YearTitleAwardResultRef.
1999 A Lesson Before Dying Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Won [4]
2006 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) Nominated [6]
2012 The First Grader NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture Won [10]

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