Emma Donoghue
October 1, 1969 (55 years old) in Dublin, Ireland
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 Adapted Screenplay.
Known For
Credits
- 2016 · Making “Room” as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2001 · Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders as Pamela Taylor