Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey was born on Jun 13, 1968 in UK. Jonathan Harvey's big-screen debut came with To the Lighthouse directed by Colin Gregg in 1983, strarring Sam Trevorrow. Jonathan Harvey is known for Beautiful Thing directed by Robert Delamere, Zaraah Abrahams stars as Leah and Jake Davies as Jamie. Jonathan Harvey has got 2 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Jonathan Harvey achieved is Writers' Guild of Great Britain. The upcoming new movie Jonathan Harvey plays is Beautiful Thing which will be released on Jun 18, 2013.

Jonathan Harvey was born in Liverpool in 1968, and was educated at Hull University (Psychology and Education) before moving to London, where he worked for four years as a special-needs teacher at a comprehensive school in Thamesmead, the area where his film Beautiful Thing (1996) is set. He started writing at the age of 16, with his play "The Cherry Blossom Tree". He continued writing whilst studying and teaching, and it was for his play "Wildfire" that he was awarded an attachment to the National Theatre's Studio at the end of 1992, prompting him to give up his teaching post and write full-time. He now lives in London with his boyfriend.