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- Height1.92 m
- David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Best known for his stage work, Hare had also great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours (2002) in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader (2008) in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink.
In the West End, David Hare had his greatest success with the plays Plenty, which he adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), and Amy's View (1998). The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982-83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War and The Vertical Hour. He wrote screenplays for films including The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008) and the BBC dramas Page Eight (2011) and Collateral (2018).
As at 2013, Hare has received two Academy Award nominations, three Golden Globe Award nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He has also been awarded several critics' awards such as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and received the Golden Bear in 1985. He was knighted in 1998.- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpousesNicole Farhi(1992 - present)Margaret Matheson(August 7, 1970 - 1980) (divorced, 3 children)
- His play, Skylight, was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award: BBC Award for Best Play in 1996 (1995 season) at the Royal National Theatre in Cottesloe stage.
- His play, The Blue Room, was nominated for the BBC Award for Best New Play at the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards for the 1998 season.
- Was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award three times as author of a Best Play nominee: in 1983 for "Plenty," in 1996 for "Racing Demon" and in 1997 for "Skylight."
- Was partnered with Blair Brown between his two marriages.
- His play, My Zinc Bed, performed at the Royal Court Theatre was nominated for the BBC Award for Best New Play in 2001 (2000 season) at the Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards.
- [on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 2020]: I wouldn't libel the Conservative Party by saying that Boris Johnson is a Conservative. He's a vandal. He's out to destroy institutions, be it the civil service or the BBC or the armed forces. He is a catastrophic prime minister and I don't think he will last.
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