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Christopher Hampton at an event for Imagining Argentina (2003)

Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can't make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is unravelling. As we experience the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity and past can Anthony cling to? How does Anne cope as she grieves the loss of her father, while he still lives and breathes before her?

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The Father (2020)

Christopher Hampton was born on 26 January 1946 in Faial, Açores, Portugal. He is a writer and producer, known for The Father (2020), Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Atonement (2007). He has been married to Laura de Holesch since 1971. They have two children.

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Won 2 Oscars
- 22 wins & 49 nominations total

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Jonathan Pryce, Emma Thompson, and Christopher Hampton in Carrington (1995)

Stephen Frears, Christopher Hampton, and Felicity Jones in Chéri (2009)

Christopher Hampton at an event for The Oscars (2021)

Alfonso Cuarón, Charles Finch, and Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton at an event for Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

Emma Thompson, Christopher Hampton, and Leticia Dolera at an event for Imagining Argentina (2003)

Jean-Claude Brialy, Dolores Chaplin, Jean-François Deniau, Christopher Hampton, Grégoire Hittner, Jocelyn Quivrin, Sébastien Roch, Bertrand Delanoë, Raphaël Haroche, Marcel Rufo, and Jade Esteban Estrada in Quoi? L'éternité. (2005)

Known for:

The Father

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Writer

2020

Dangerous Liaisons

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Writer

1988

Atonement

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Writer

2007

The Quiet American

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Writer

2002

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Writer

The Son
- screenplay by
- 2022
The Singapore Grip
- written by
- TV Series
- 2020
The Father
- screenplay by
- 2020
Sunset Boulevard
- text
- Video
- 2016
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- play
- 2016
Ali and Nino
- writer
- 2016
The Thirteenth Tale
- written by
- TV Movie
- 2013
Adore
- adaptation
- dialogue
- 2013
A Dangerous Method
- play "The Talking Cure"
- screenplay
- 2011
Bad Company
- storyline consultant
- 2010
Chéri
- written by
- 2009
Atonement
- screenplay
- 2007
Imagining Argentina
- writer
- 2003
The Quiet American
- screenplay
- 2002
Television Theater
- play
- TV Series
- 1997

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Trivia
He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honors List for his services to literature.

Quotes
At my school I would say that it was more of a sort of romantic thing than an actual sexual thing, but people did have crushes on other boys. It was sort of staring at people in chapel. Interestingly enough, the people at school who did become gay were not the people who were involved in that kind of thing. What went on most of the time was people fell for boys who looked like girls and were a bit younger" - on adolescent homosexuality in his school