Ann Peacock | |
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Born | 1945 |
Citizenship | South Africa |
Occupation(s) | Writer, Screenwriter |
Ann Peacock is a South African-born screenwriter based in the United States. After teaching Law in her native South Africa, she moved to the United States and started a screenwriting career at after doing an Extension Course in screenwriting 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).
Peacock was born in 1951 and raised in South Africa. [1] She was educated at the University of Cape Town, where she obtained her law degree, [2] and taught in the faculty of Law. [3]
Her screenwriting career began after she moved to the United States, [1] writing her first screenplay June the 16th as a screenwriting student 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]
Year | Title | Ref. |
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1999 | A Lesson Before Dying | [1] |
2000 | Cora Unashamed | [5] |
2004 | In My Country | [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] |