Moffat Stephen: biography and filmography

Many people like him and many hate him. He is criticized and receives the most prestigious awards, and even in 2015 became a Knight of the Order of the British Empire for his services in the development of drama. But mostly Steven Moffat is known to our viewers on works in such TV series as "Sherlock" and "Doctor Who."

Learning and first successes

It all started with the Scottish city of Paisley. It was here on November 18, 1961 Moffat was born. Stephen (his full name Stephen William Moffat) spent his childhood in this town and graduated from high school, and then enrolled at the University of Glasgow (studied at the Faculty of Philology) and even became a bachelor in English. After graduating from university, he got a job as a school teacher. It was during his time at school that he first sat down to write the play War Zones and the musical Knifer, which successfully survived the production of the school theater.

After some time, the school administration received an appeal from the television producers to help create a TV series about the school newspaper. It so happened that the person to whom they applied was Stephen's father. Knowing about his son's hobby to write good texts, he advised to turn to him. Producers were very pleased with what Stephen had suggested in the script, and Moffat Jr. made his first successful move in the television career.

Stephen Moffat. Films according to his scripts

The series called Press Grand was successfully broadcast on screens from 1989 to 1993. Part of this particular project was Moffat. Stephen finished work on this TV project in the 90's and on the wave of the first success began to think about the continuation of his television career. Producer of the TV show Bob Spears arranged a meeting between Stephen and the TV-man André Plaschinski, who was going to start a new show. The Joking Apart series turned out to be quite self-ironical, because the script was largely borrowed from personal life (the matter is that during the Moffat series, there was a breakdown in this regard). The story of her husband-writer, wife and lover of his wife was very warmly received by the public and even put forward on the Emmy.

In 1997, the creative tandem Moffat-Plaschinsky releases a new project - Chalk. But, unfortunately, the comedy story about high school students was closed by the channel. With the advent of 2000, the first series of the project "Love for Six" was released. This time the story turned out to be optimistic - it was based on relationships, or rather their beginning, with Sue Vert (his second wife), who also worked on television. Later, Stephen worked on the American version of the series, but the work did not get as popular as her British original.

World Recognition

One of the most important screenwriters in his career was 2004 - he was offered work on the restart of the famous "Doctor Who" (later fans especially loved the episode "Forest of the Dead"). Stephen Moffat - the only one who could do it worthy. He, of course, could not miss the chance to participate in the cult project, a fan of which was since childhood. Thanks to his talent, the screenwriter breathed new life into the series, and the show flourished with frenzied popularity, and Stephen received not one prestigious award. And it should also be noted that Moffat attached a "scenario hand" to the cartoon "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" (2011), directed by Steven Spielberg, along with Peter Jackson (director of "The Lord of the Rings" and the trilogy "The Hobbit").

Once on a train

With the advent of 2010, there was an event, a hurricane sweeping across the film world and sweeping everything in its path, the cause of which was Stephen Moffat - "Sherlock". Modern adaptation of classical works about Sherlock Holmes is more than a brave experiment, which not everyone will be able to solve. And it turned out that the effort was not in vain - the show fell in love around the world, and the actors who played the main roles, have become one of the most popular and discussed people in the world. However, this could not have happened, if not for one trip on the train from Cardiff to London ...

"Sherlock" is a product of the joint painstaking work of two writers: Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Both became friends while working on one of the episodes of Doctor Who. During the return from filming in London, sitting on the train, friends suddenly found out that both are great admirers of detective works of Conan Doyle. Talking on this topic, Steven and Mark came to the mutual desire to move the Victorian Sherlock Holmes these days. What would he be then? If the classic Holmes smokes a pipe and wears a hunting hat, the modern one, most likely, would wear a nicotine patch and use a laptop and a smartphone. And Watson, who originally wrote stories about adventures, would now start a blog and call the detective not Mr. Holmes, but Sherlock. And so on…

The writers were so carried away by this idea that they were surprised: why has it never occurred to anyone? And since no one did this, they should do it - Gettys and Moffat. Stephen talked about this conversation to his wife, who also became imbued with the idea and subsequently became the producer of the series. Perhaps, we should not talk about his frenzied popularity. We only note that the creators did not count on such success. What was a free fantasy has become a general agiotage from season to season. Moreover, Moffat Stephen promised that the fourth season of "Sherlock" will be the most unexpected and dramatic, even more heated the expectation of the public. Well, we'll wait, you know, these guys are amazing ...