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Chris Lang
Publicity photo of Lang taken in 2014.
Publicity photo of Lang taken in 2014.
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Peckham, London, England
OccupationScreenwriter, television producer
NationalityBritish
Period1993–present
Notable worksAmnesia (2004)
Torn (2007)
A Mother's Son (2012)
Undeniable (2014)
Unforgotten (2015)

Chris Lang (born 1961) is a British television writer, actor and producer.

Career

Screenwriter

Lang has written for many British television series but is best known as the writer, creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Unforgotten. The series starred Nicola Walker, Trevor Eve, Sir Tom Courtenay, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Bernard Hill.[8] and was first broadcast in Autumn 2015. In November 2015, ITV announced it would be returning for a second series, with filming set to begin in June 2016.[1]

He has written a number of British television series including Undeniable starring Peter Firth and Claire Goose,[2] (April 2014); A Mother's Son starring Hermione Norris, Paul McGann and Martin Clunes (September 2012) which was nominated for a Broadcast Award,[3] and adapted as a single film for TF1 in France, as Tu Es Mon Fils (April 2015) starring Anne Marivin;[4] and Torn, starring Holly Aird and Nicola Walker, which was nominated for an RTS award.[5]

Lang began his career as a television writer with The Bill, for which he wrote many episodes, and for which he won a Writer's Guild award. He went on to write episodes for shows including Casualty, Soldier Soldier, The Knock, Reach for the Moon, The Palace, POW, Primeval, Hustle and most recently The Tunnel for Sky Atlantic. In 2001, he wrote and created his first original drama series The Glass, which starred John Thaw and Sarah Lancashire.[6] Since then his original dramas have included Sirens, Unconditional Love, Amnesia (which was nominated for an Edgar Award),[7] Lawless, and The Reckoning.

In 2007, he co-founded the production company TXTV, for whom he has acted as executive producer on The Little House and most of his original drama series.

Actor

He trained as an actor at RADA, graduating in 1983, and as an actor worked on such British television series as Shadow of the Noose, Drop the Dead Donkey, Outside Edge, A Dance to the Music of Time and All Along the Watchtower. In his youth, he formed a comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with Andy Taylor and Hugh Grant.[8] As a voice actor, he has contributed to films and TV programmes such as A Monkey's Tale and Kipper.

Selected work

Awards and nominations

Notes

  1. ^ "ITV commissions a second series of Unforgotten". "ITV Press Centre". Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  2. ^ Digital Spy article on "Undeniable"
  3. ^ 2013 Broadcast Awards shortlist
  4. ^ "Tu Es Mon Fils". 23 February 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  5. ^ 2007 Royal Television Society Awards nominations Archived 2014-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Guardian review of The Glass"
  7. ^ 2005 Edgar Awards nominees
  8. ^ "Andy Taylor's account of The Jockeys of Norfolk"
  9. ^ "BAFTA TV Awards 2016: Unforgotten's Tom Courtenay wins Best Supporting Actor". RadioTimes. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Broadcast Awards Shortlist 2013 revealed". www.broadcastnow.co.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  11. ^ "Programme Awards Winners 2008 | Royal Television Society". rts.org.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  12. ^ "Category List – Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Edgars Database". theedgars.com. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  13. ^ Wing and a Prayer, 22 September 1997, retrieved 10 May 2016
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