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Sally Wainwright
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Sally Anne Wainwright OBE (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director. She is known for her dramas, which are often set in West Yorkshire, where she origin…
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Sally Anne Wainwright OBE (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director. She is known for her dramas, which are often set in West Yorkshire, where she originates from, and feature "strong female characters". Wainwright has been praised for the quality of her dialogue. Wainwright began her career as a scriptwriter on the long-running radio serial drama The Archers, and worked on the television soap operas Emmerdale and Coronation Street in the 1990s. Her first original drama, At Home with the Braithwaites, aired between 2000 and 2003. After two self-described "flops" in the mid-2000s, Wainwright found success with Unforgiven (2009), for which she won the Royal Television Society's Writer of the Year Award. Her work since includes Scott & Bailey (2011–2016), Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020), Happy Valley (2014–2023), and Gentleman Jack (2019–2022). Last Tango in Halifax won the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 2013, and Happy Valley won the same award in both 2015 and 2017.
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2025
Riot Women
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
Renegade Nell
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Movie Self
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self
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2022
Remembers…
TV show Self
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2022
Son Nefesime Kadar
TV show Original Story
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2021
The Unforgivable
Movie Story
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2019
Gentleman Jack
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
The Detail
TV show Original Series Creator
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2016
To Walk Invisible
Movie Writer
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2014
Happy Valley
TV show Executive Producer
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2013
The Last Witch
Movie Writer
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2012
Last Tango in Halifax
TV show Executive Producer
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2011
Scott & Bailey
TV show Executive Producer
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2009
Unforgiven
TV show Writer
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2007
Bonkers
TV show Writer
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2007
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Movie Writer
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2006
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV show Producer
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2006
Jane Hall
TV show Writer
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2005
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie Writer
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2005
ShakespeaRe-Told
TV show Writer
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2003
Canterbury Tales
TV show Writer
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2002
Sparkhouse
TV show Writer
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2000
At Home with the Braithwaites
TV show Writer
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1999
Bad Girls
TV show Writer
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1998
Playing the Field
TV show Writer
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1995
Castles
TV show Writer
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1994
Revelations
TV show Writer
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1994
The House of Windsor
TV show Writer
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1989
Children's Ward
TV show Writer
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1972
Emmerdale
TV show Writer
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1960
Coronation Street
TV show Writer
