Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright dated actress Anna Kendrick between 2009 and 2013. The duo met on the sets of ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ and was seen together regularly while they were dating.

Wright has close friendship with actors Simon Pegg and Nick frost and has worked with them in many films. He is also good friends with writer-director Quentin Tarantino.

Edgar Wright was born in Poole, Dorset, on April 18, 1974 to Lesley Wright and Chris Wright. He has a brother named Oscar Wright who is an artist.

Wright grew up with his brother in Somerset and attended The Blue School, Wells. He later enrolled at the Arts University Bournemouth and earned his National Diploma (ND) in audio-visual design in 1994.

As a young boy, he used his Super-8 camera that he got from a relative as a gift and made many short films during the late 1980s. Some years later, he got his first Video-8 camcorder which he won in a television program ‘Going Live’ and used it to make comic short films like ‘Dead Right’.

Edgar Wright started his career with a very low budget in 1995 and made his first feature film, an independent spoof western, ‘A Fistful of Fingers’. It caught the attention of British comedians David Edward Williams and Matthew Richard Lucas. They hired Wright to direct their parodic sketch show ‘Mash and Peas’ for the Paramount Comedy channel in 1996.

He then directed the British comedy series ‘Asylum’, based on a story revolving around a mental asylum. The show ran for just one season consisting of six episodes in 1996.

In 1998, Wright undertook three projects: ‘Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round’, ‘Is It Bill Bailey?’, and ‘French and Saunders’. He directed six episodes each of the first two comedy shows while he directed one episode of the third one.

In 1998, actor Simon Pegg and Tallulah Jessica Elina Hynes (also known as Jessica Stevenson) were making plans for their sitcom ‘Spaced’ which was due to run on Channel 4. They decided to bring in Wright as the director and Wright accepted the offer straight away.

The show ‘Spaced,’ which premiered in 1999, was a major hit. Wright was nominated at the BAFTA Awards twice in the Situation Comedy Award category in 2000 and 2002.

After working with Edgar Wright in ‘Asylum’, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson decided to hire Wright for their own comedy show ‘Spaced’. Wright introduced new dynamics to the comedy show genre with his work in ‘Spaced’. He injected elements of sci-fi and horror genres into the comedy show which made it unique. He was nominated twice for the BAFTA Awards.

The first part of the ‘The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’ was ‘Shaun of the Dead’, a film based on an apocalyptic zombie uprising. Wright wrote the screenplay as well as directed the film. He won the British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay and Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay in 2004. He was also nominated for many other awards including a BAFTA Award for Best British Film.