Edgar Wright
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg, Nira Park and Nick Frost. He also collaborated with them as the director of the television series Spaced.
- Nominated for 4 BAFTA Awards
- 20 wins & 50 nominations total
Director
- 2025
Writer
- 2025
Producer
- 2025
- Official sites
- Alternative name
- Edgar Wright Here Wright Now
- Height
- 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Born
- Parents
- Leslie
- Relatives
- Oscar Wright(Sibling)
- Other worksDirected the video for "Bastardo" by Charlotte Hatherley [2005].
- Publicity listings
- TriviaAccording to the June 2007 issue of Empire magazine, the films that most influenced Wright were Raising Arizona (1987), Run Lola Run (1998), Dirty Harry (1971), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Hard Boiled (1992), The Evil Dead (1981) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
- Quotes[on Spaced (1999)] It's a show by geeks, for geeks.
- TrademarksFrequently works with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
- Nickname
- Eball
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