Biography
Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapte...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Wonder
2022
Executive Producer, Writer, Novel
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
Making “Room”
2016
as Self
The cast and crew, as well as novelist and screenwriter Emma Donoghue, weigh in on the importance of the story, the arduous process of bringing it to ...
Room
2015
Screenplay, Novel, Executive Producer
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world ...
Immaculate Conceptions: Inside a Lesbian Baby Boom
2007
Director
An intimate, eye-opening account of a lesbian baby boom in Canada during a period of rapid legal reform and social change. It is told entirely through...
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
2001
as Pamela Taylor
Dramatised documentary which describes the police investigation that led to the conviction of David Mulcahy for the notorious Railway Murders in the 1...
H Is for Hawk
N/A
Writer
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubbor hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscov...