Laurence Coriat

Laurence Coriat was born in France and moved to London in her early twenties. She wrote Michael Winterbottom’s WONDERLAND which was selected in competition at Cannes in 1999 and won the best British Independent Film award that year. She cowrote Sandra Goldbacher’s ME WITHOUT YOU, starring Michelle Williams and Anna Friel, which was unveiled at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. She went on to collaborate with Michael Winterbottom in 2006 on A MIGHTY HEART an adaptation of Marianne Pearl’s account of her husband’s kidnapping and murder, starring Angelina Jolie. She co-wrote Winterbottom’s GENOVA, which starred Colin Firth as a man struggling to cope with the death of his wife.

She worked with Marc Evans on “PATAGONIA” (2010), a Welsh Argentine drama starring Mathew Rhys and “HUNKY DORY” starring Minnie Driver (2011).

In 2012 Coriat continued her collaboration with Winterbottom on the film EVERYDAY, which charts the relationship between a man, imprisoned for drug smuggling, and his wife and was shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time. The film was nominated for a Best Single Drama Bafta in 2013.

2015 sees the release of LADY GREY set in South Africa, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Emily Mortimer and directed by Alain Choquart.

In 2016, she took part in a writers room with show-runner Hossein Amini and wrote two episodes of ‘McMafia’, Amini’s BBC series, directed by James Watkins. She worked on “ICARUS” an Iain Softley project about British astronaut Michael Foale who overcame a series of crises aboard the Mir space station. She is currently developing several TV series. ‘ANIMALS’ with French independent company “Haut et Court”, based on an original idea as well as two untitled TV projects in development with Archery Pictures and Seven Stories.