- Born
- Birth namePeter Julian Robin Morgan
- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- Peter Morgan was born on April 10, 1963 in London, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Frost/Nixon (2008), The Crown (2016) and The Last King of Scotland (2006).
- SpouseLila Schwarzenberg (separated, 5 children)
- Often writes biographical films that combines fact and fiction.
- Often writes roles for Michael Sheen to act.
- Peter is actress Helen Mirren's good luck charm in that he wrote The Queen (2006), for which she won her first Best Actress Oscar, and the play "The Audience" (2015), for which she won her first Tony Award.
- Began his writing career when he was head-hunted to write training videos on the strength of a student play (co-written with Mark Wadlow) he had staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
- His father, Arthur Morgenthau, a German Jew, fled the Nazis. His mother, Inga (Bojcek), was Polish, and fled the Soviets. After they had emigrated to the UK, they chose the new surname Morgan, an Anglicization of Morgenthau.
- Ranked #28 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
- Has a degree in Fine Art from the University of Leeds.
- [re Rush (2013)] I remember the terrible looks I used to get when I said I was working on a script about Tony Blair and the Queen after the death of [Princess] Diana, or about Richard Nixon and David Frost. People would question my sanity. At least this one has cars, sex and death. To me it felt like Iron Man (2008).
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