David Hare (playwright), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Hare (playwright)

English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1947

Place of Birth: St Leonards-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, playwright, television director, film director, film producer, theater director

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.
Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink. In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty, which he adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), and Amy's View (1998).
The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play.
Other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War and The Vertical Hour.
He wrote screenplays for films including The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008) and the BBC dramas Page Eight (2011) and Collateral (2018). As at 2013, Hare has received two Academy Award nominations, three Golden Globe Award nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and two Laurence Olivier Awards.
He has also been awarded several critics' awards such as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and received the Golden Bear in 1985.
He was knighted in 1998.