Krysty Wilson-Cairns

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Birthday 1987-05-26 (37 years old)

Place of Birth Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Krysty Wilson-Cairns

Biography

Krysty Wilson-Cairns (born 26 May 1987) is a Scottish screenwriter. Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, she attended Craigholme School, and later studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the National Film and Television School. During her teenage years, she was a runner on television series including the detective show Taggart. Her script for the unproduced science fiction thriller Aether made the 2014 Black List and led to a staff writer role on the television show Penny Dreadful. Her feature film debut was the screenplay for the Sam Mendes-directed 2019 war film 1917. She co-wrote it with Mendes and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Krysty Wilson-Cairns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Writer

Cleopatra

as Writer

2022
The Good Nurse

as Screenplay

2021
Last Night in Soho

as Screenplay

2019
1917

as Screenplay

2014
Penny Dreadful

as Writer

2013
Dollface

as Writer

2013
Musical Star

as Writer

2013
Musical Star

as Lyricist

2013
Fink

as Writer

2012
All Men's Dead

as Writer

2011