Biography
Jack Thorne FRSL (born 6 December 1978) is a British playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and producer. A massive fan of hard science fiction, he is best known for writing the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the films Wonder (2017), Enola Holmes (2020) and the latter's sequel (2022), and the television programme His Dark Materials (2019–2022). Between 2010 and 2015, Thorne co-wrote three mini-series – This Is England '86, This Is England '88, and This Is England '90 – with...
Complete Filmography

TRON: Ares
2025
Screenplay
A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encoun...

Joy
2024
Writer, Story
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursu...

An Almost Christmas Story
2024
Story, Screenplay
A young owl meets a lost little girl in New York City. Together, they try to get home for Christmas.

Equal Play
2024
Executive Producer
This beautiful and compelling documentary uncovers the transformative power of sport for disabled people, through the experiences of two British child...

National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
2024
Writer
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir J...

Enola Holmes 2
2022
Writer, Executive Producer
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous...

The Swimmers
2022
Writer
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use...

Then Barbara Met Alan
2022
Executive Producer, Writer
The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving forc...

National Theatre Live: After Life
2021
Writer
A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged b...

Help
2021
Writer, Executive Producer
Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in Marc...

A Christmas Carol
2020
Writer
Two visionary talents, playwright Jack Thorne and director Matthew Warchus, offer a magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens’ classic story. This...

Dirt Music
2020
Screenplay
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement ...

Enola Holmes
2020
Screenplay
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

The Secret Garden
2020
Screenplay
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with ...

Radioactive
2020
Screenplay
The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the s...

The Aeronauts
2019
Story, Screenplay, Executive Producer
In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly h...

Wonder
2017
Screenplay
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

War Book
2015
Writer
Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.
Don't Take My Baby
2015
Writer
Factual drama which tells the story of a disabled couple's agonising struggle to keep their newborn baby. Based on real-life testimony, this emotional...

A Long Way Down
2014
Screenplay
Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a solipsistic muso—decide to end their lives on the same...

How I Live Now
2013
Writer
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the w...

Jonah
2013
Writer
Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the...
The Swarm
2011
Producer
An unknown swarm of creatures visit a quiet street in North London. The residents managed to capture the footage on their mobile phones. This film is ...

The Scouting Book for Boys
2010
Writer
Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday...
A Supermarket Love Song
2006
Screenplay
A teenage girl on community service takes an old man to the supermarket.
The Mascot
2005
Screenplay

The Alchemist
N/A
Screenplay
Santiago, a young man who yearns to travel, goes in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.

Sovereign
N/A
Screenplay
In the wake of a fractured marriage, a man goes to find his wife and the entire crew of a space station who have gone missing. As he explores the ship...
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
N/A
Screenplay
A man attending a funeral in his hometown comes face-to-face with his past when he is confronted with memories of mistrust, adultery, abuse, and a fan...
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
N/A
Screenplay
The story will follow a medium who convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve renown for her abili...

Enola Holmes 3
N/A
Screenplay
Adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide in a case more tangled and treacherous than any she h...

The Beatles: Paul
N/A
Writer
One of four biopics—all to be released in April 2028—focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the p...

The Beatles: John
N/A
Writer
One of four biopics—all to be released in April 2028—focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the p...

The Beatles: George
N/A
Writer
One of four biopics—all to be released in April 2028—focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the p...

The Beatles: Ringo
N/A
Writer
One of four biopics—all to be released in April 2028—focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the p...
Chork
N/A
Writer
15-year-old Kit and 11-year-old Ani leave their foster home and trek across the coastline in hopes of a brighter future. With the police in pursuit an...
Jane
N/A
Screenplay
A story about a woman named Jane and her relationship with her twin, who also happens to be the celebrated novelist Philip K. Dick.