Peggy Thompson | |
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Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
Occupation | Screenwriter and professor |
Citizenship | Canadian |
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Peggy Thompson is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, playwright, and professor. She is known for her films The Lotus Eaters and Better Than Chocolate .
Thompson's 1989 short film In Search of the Last Good Man won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. [1] She won the award for Best Screenplay at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for The Lotus Eaters . [2]
Thompson wrote the screenplay and co-produced the 2000 film, Better Than Chocolate. [3] She began conceiving the film in 1993, shortly after finishing The Lotus Eaters, while on a retreat with Better Than Chocolate's other producer, Sharon McGowan.The two dared each other to create a lesbian coming out comedy. [4] Thompson was committed to not having Better Than Chocolate be in "the tradition of the celluloid closet" and thus gave the lesbian characters in the film a happy ending. [5]
Her other credits include the films Saint Monica [6] and Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury, [7] the television series The Beachcombers , [8] Da Vinci's Inquest and Big Sound , and stage plays including Brides in Space [9] and The Last Will and Testament of Lolita. [10] She was also coauthor, with Saeko Usukawa, of two coffee table books on film history, Hard Boiled: Great Lines from Film Noir and Tall in the Saddle: Great Lines from Classic Westerns. [11]
Thompson is currently an associate professor of screenwriting at the University of British Columbia.
Saeko Usukawa, an art book writer and editor with Douglas & McIntyre, was Thompson's partner from 1978 until her death in 2009. [12]