
Person
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Writing · Born 1987-05-26 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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

Penny Dreadful
Writer

1917
Writer

Last Night in Soho
Screenplay

The Good Nurse
Screenplay

Allied Forces: Making 1917
Self
Fink
Writer
Dollface
Writer
All Men's Dead
Writer
Musical Star
Writer

The End of an Era
Writer
Filmography
- 2022The Good NurseScreenplay
- 2021Last Night in SohoScreenplay
- 2020Allied Forces: Making 1917Self
- 20191917Writer
- 2014Penny DreadfulWriter
- 2013FinkWriter
- 2013DollfaceWriter
- 2013Musical StarWriter
- 2012All Men's DeadWriter
- 2011The End of an EraWriter
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