Craig Warner(II)
- Writer
- Actor
Born in Hollywood, he has spent much of his life in London, where he
had early success writing plays for Ben Kingsley, Miranda Richardson,
Richard E. Grant and others. He has won a number of major awards,
including two BBC awards for Best Plays of the Year. He is the writer
of the theatre version of Strangers on a Train (based on the novel by
Patricia Highsmith) and this play is produced all over the world. He
performed an extensive uncredited production rewrite on The Mists of
Avalon for Warner Bros., which was later nominated for a Writers Guild
Award for Best Adapted Long-Form Drama and nine Emmys (including Best
Mini-Series), and he wrote Julius Caesar, again for Warner Bros., for
which he was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for Best Original
Long-Form Drama. He was nominated for a BAFTA (Best Single Drama) for
his film The Queen's Sister, and The Last Day's of Lehman Brothers won
him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards
in 2010.