Biography
Steven Knight CBE is a British screenwriter and film director. Knight wrote the screenplays for the films Closed Circuit, Dirty Pretty Things, and Eastern Promises, and also directed as well as wrote the films Locke and Hummingbird.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Maria
2024
Writer, Executive Producer
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

The Choice
2024
Original Film Writer
Joseph Cross looks like his job. Solid like concrete. Married, two children, his existence is perfectly organized. Yet this night, alone behind the wh...

Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
2024
Writer, Executive Producer
Opening in the trenches of Flanders, a personal story unfolds in postwar industrial Birmingham as the Shelby family navigate the decisions that determ...

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony
2022
Executive Producer, Director
The opening ceremony for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, held at the Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr.

Spencer
2021
Writer, Executive Producer
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charl...

Locked Down
2021
Writer, Executive Producer
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive ...

FX's A Christmas Carol
2019
Writer, Executive Producer
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts...

Serenity
2019
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an el...

The Girl in the Spider's Web
2018
Screenplay
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web ...

Woman Walks Ahead
2018
Screenplay
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off wit...

November Criminals
2017
Screenplay, Executive Producer
When Addison investigates the murder of his friend Kevin with the help of Phoebe, they discover that the truth is darker than they had ever imagined.

Allied
2016
Writer, Executive Producer
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reuni...

Burnt
2015
Screenplay
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearh...

Pawn Sacrifice
2015
Screenplay
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Seventh Son
2014
Screenplay
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner ...

The Hundred-Foot Journey
2014
Screenplay
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

Locke
2014
Director, Writer
Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his c...

Closed Circuit
2013
Screenplay
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their ...

Hummingbird
2013
Director, Screenplay
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportuni...

Redemption
2013
Producer
Redemption is a documentary about New York City's canners - the men and women who survive by redeeming bottles and cans they collect from curbs, garba...

Eastern Promises
2007
Screenplay
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russia...

Amazing Grace
2006
Writer
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, bu...

Gypsy Woman
2002
Writer
A ruthless property developer investigates a builder's death and meets the dead man's wife. Recently widowed himself, he falls for her and is drawn in...

Dirty Pretty Things
2002
Screenplay
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
N/A
as Himself
Documentary feature about the shooting of season 3 of the British TV show "Peaky Blinders".
Vertigo
N/A
Writer
A retired detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed...
The Immortal Man: A Peaky Blinders Film
N/A
Characters, Screenplay, Producer
Plot TBA. Set during World War II.
Small Dark Look
N/A
Screenplay
An undercover Russian agent who has risen to become the trusted lieutenant of a London mafia boss is instructed to assassinate one of his fellow count...
Untitled Gore Verbinski Project
N/A
Screenplay
A married guy spends too much time with an online fantasy role-playing game.
Oasis Reunion Tour documentary
N/A
Producer

Oasis Live ’25
N/A
Producer
After more than 15 years apart, Oasis reunites for the most anticipated comeback in rock history.