Jane Goldman

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Jane Goldman

Goldman at the British Academy Television Awards 2009.
Born Jane Loretta Anne Goldman
11 June 1970 (1970-06-11) (age 41)
Hammersmith, London, UK
Occupation Screenwriter, television presenter, author, model
Years active 2001–present
Known for Presenting:
Jane Goldman Investigates (2003–04)
Spouse Jonathan Ross (m. 1988) «start: (1988)»"Marriage: Jonathan Ross to Jane Goldman" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goldman)
Children Betty Kitten (born 1991)
Harvey Kirby (born 1994)
Honey Kinny (born 1997)

Jane Lauretta Anne Goldman[1] (born 11 June 1970) is an English screenwriter, author, model and television presenter. Between 2003 and 2004 she fronted her own paranormal series, Jane Goldman Investigates, on the channel Living.

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[edit] Personal life

Goldman was born in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of Amanda and Stuart Goldman, a property developer. She first became romantically involved with TV presenter Jonathan Ross when she was a 16-year-old pop columnist for the Daily Star newspaper, and married him in 1988, when she was 18. They have since had three children: Betty Kitten (named after Bettie Page and Kitten Natividad) born July 1991, Harvey Kirby (named after comic book artist Jack Kirby) born March 1994 and Honey Kinny born February 1997. The family lives in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London.[citation needed]

[edit] Career

Goldman worked as a staff writer on the multi-format computer games magazine Zero, circa 1990–1992.[citation needed]

Goldman wrote the novel Dreamworld, four non-fiction books for young adults, and the non-fiction, two-volume series The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, about the American television show.[citation needed] Goldman appears as a character in author Neil Gaiman's short story "The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch" (1996).

She eventually made the jump to script writing, and was a part of the writing team for David Baddiel's short-lived sitcom, Baddiel's Syndrome. She was the co-writer of the screenplay for Stardust, based on Gaiman's novel, for which she won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. After Stardust Goldman became a frequent collaborator of director Matthew Vaughn, co-writing and producing his next movies, the comic book adaptations Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class. Kick-Ass has caused controversy with the character of a child assassin, Hit-Girl. Goldman defends this character by stating, "It's not a movie for kids, it's not something kids should see. Obviously no little kid could go around doing this."[2] She was also a co-writer who helped adapt the 2011 drama-thriller The Debt, starring Helen Mirren, and wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film adaptation of Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black.[3]

[edit] Modelling

Goldman was a lingerie model for Fantasie bras.[4]

[edit] Filmography

Year Film Notes
2007 Stardust co-writer (screenplay)
2010 Kick-Ass co-writer (screenplay), co-producer
2011 X-Men: First Class co-writer (screenplay)
2011 The Debt co-writer (screenplay and story)
2012 The Woman in Black Writer (screenplay)
TBA Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Writer (screenplay)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
  2. ^ Goldman Defends Film
  3. ^ Hammer nails film rights, Chiller 'Woman in Black' to be directed by rising Brit
  4. ^ Close (11 May 2000). "Talking dirty | World news". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/may/11/gender.uk2. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 

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