Screenwriter

Andrew Davies is acknowledged to be the most successful adapter of classic novels writing in television today. He began his career by writing radio plays and then moved into writing for television, films, theatre, novels and children's books.

Following the huge success of BLEAK HOUSE, a sixteen-part series for BBC1 broadcast in 2006, Andrew has now dramatised Charles Dickens' LITTLE DORRIT for the BBC for production in 2008. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Andrew's Jane Austen adaptation for the BBC was transmitted in January 2008 to critical acclaim and followed on from his dramatisation of NORTHANGER ABBEY which screened as part of ITV's Jane Austen Season.

Other recent productions include DIARY OF A NOBODY, which starred Hugh Bonneville produced by Clerkenwell Films for BBC4, his three-part dramatisation of the classic novel FANNY HILL for Sally Head Productions again for the BBC, and an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A ROOM WITH A VIEW for ITV. Andrew also wrote a three-part adaptation of THE LINE OF BEAUTY Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize winning novel for BBC2 which transmitted in 2006.

Andrew co-wrote the screenplay of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED for Ecosse films. He wrote the screenplay of AFFINITY based on the novel by Sarah Waters, which is a film for ITV in the UK and theatrical exhibition in the rest of the world. Other film credits include BRIDGET JONES' DIARY and the follow up-film, THE EDGE OF REASON. Andrew also had a coscreenwriting credit with John Le Carré and John Boorman on the TAILOR OF PANAMA. Andrew's own novel B-Monkey was produced as a film by Miramax.

Andrew's other highly acclaimed TV productions include a four-part dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT for the BBC, dramatisations of George Eliot's DANIEL DERONDA for BBC1, Sarah Waters' first novel TIPPING THE VELVET for BBC2 and Boris Pasternak's DR. ZHIVAGO for Granada Television and ITV.

Other adaptations include Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW; Kingsley Amis' TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU, a contemporary television film of William Shakespeare's OTHELLO; Elizabeth Gaskell's WIVES AND DAUGHTERS; A RATHER ENGLISH MARRIAGE, which won the RTS Award for Best Single Drama; VANITY FAIR; and MOLL FLANDERS which stars Alex Kingston. His six-part dramatisation for the BBC of MIDDLEMARCH received rave reviews. HOUSE OF CARDS, MOTHER and his original series A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE are also amongst Andrew's credits.

Andrew's acclaimed screenplay of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE was transmitted on BBC1 in the autumn of 1995 and received both the highest viewing figures of any BBC Classic Serial and the highest audience for any drama transmitted on the Arts & Entertainment Channel in the United States.

His many awards include five Baftas, as well as numerous Bafta nominations, an Emmy for his adaptation of House of Cards, and an RTS award. In 2002 Andrew was awarded The BAFTA Academy Fellowship.