Nazrin Choudhury
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Nazrin Choudhury is an Academy Award-nominated British-American screenwriter, director and actress of Bangladeshi descent.[1]
Early life
Choudhury was born in South West London, England to parents of Bangladeshi origin.[2] She graduated with a BSc in Biomedical Science from King's College London, and completed an MA in Screenwriting at the Northern Film School, having received a FilmFour Productions/Channel 4 Award.[3]
Career
Choudhury scripted episodes of British television serials such as Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders and Waterloo Road. She also worked as a storyline writer on Coronation Street. Her radio play Mixed Blood[4] won the Richard Imison Award in 2006.[1][5]
In 2006, she was awarded a grant for the arts by the Arts Council England for her first novel My England.[3] Her first screenplay Scum won the "Focus on Talent" award, a competition run by DNA Films.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Choudhury was selected as one of the ten finalists for the 2014 Fox Writers Intensive.[6] She moved to the United States and has written for Fox's Houdini and Doyle, Wayward Pines, Amazon's Jack Ryan and most recently written and produced on Fear the Walking Dead. On 17 September 2020, she was announced as the writer of American Radical for Universal, based the memoir written by Kevin Maurer and Tamer Elnoury. It is to be directed by Sam Esmail.[7]
In 2023, Nazrin Choudhury wrote, directed, and produced the Oscar-nominated short film Red, White and Blue starring Brittany Snow and Juliet Donenfeld. Red, White and Blue garnered critical acclaim in the industry, winning both the Grand Jury Prize at the Edmonton International Film Festival and the Industry Choice Award at Dances with Films: New York. The film which served as Choudhury's directorial debut earned her an Oscar Nomination at the 96th Academy Awards.[8]
Personal life
Choudhury is currently based in Los Angeles.
Filmography
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External links
- Template:Trim/ Nazrin Choudhury at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Time To Read – Nazrin Choudhury
- Lang, Kirsty. Nazrin Choudhury: Imison winner 2006. BBC Radio 4. October 2006
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- Living people
- English people of Bangladeshi descent
- English women screenwriters
- English television writers
- English soap opera writers
- Women soap opera writers
- English women novelists
- British Asian writers
- 21st-century English novelists
- 21st-century English women writers
- Writers from London
- English television actresses
- English stage actresses
- Television producers from London
- People educated at Streatham and Clapham High School
- Actresses from London
- Alumni of King's College London
- Alumni of the Northern Film School
- English women television producers
- 21st-century English screenwriters
- English women television writers
- Novelists from London