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Jez Butterworth
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Jez Butterworth

JEZ (JEREMY) BUTTERWORTH made his feature film directorial debut with the acclaimed gangster film Mojo, a witty, in-your-face yarn about greed and amorality in the drug underworld. Starring Ian Hart, Ewen Bremner, Aidan Gillen, Hans Matheson, Andy Serkis and Harold Pinter, the film was based on his wildly successful stage play of the same name. The play', which opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995, made Butterworth the first writer to debut on the main stage at the Royal Court since Look Back in Anger's John Osborne. Mojo won five major theatre awards, including the Olivier and the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award.

Born in London in 1969, Butterworth was brought up in St. Albans, the setting of BIRTHDAY GIRL, and educated at Cambridge University. With his brother he wrote the The Census Man as part of Carlton Television New Writer Course. This led to their being commissioned in 1993 to make The Night of the Golden Brain, a short film about a pub quiz team, as part of the Going Underground series. After Mojo he teamed up again with brother Tom to co-write Christmas and The Night of the Golden Brain.


Note: This profile was written in or before 2002.

Jez Butterworth Facts

Birth NameJeremy Butterworth
OccupationActor, Director
BirthplaceLondon, England, United Kingdom

Selected Filmography

Not available.